“A warrior and a lord of men”: uma análise narrativa e linguística de Boromir de Gondor em The lord of the rings

Abstract

Boromir of Gondor is one of the characters from the fantasy book The Lord of the Rings (originally published in 1974 in Brazil and translanted again in 2001 and in 2018). Written by J.R.R. Tolkien, the story takes place in the fantastic universy of the Middle-Earth whose existence is related to the idea of its author to create a founder mythology of the British nation with references to the Nordic and celtic references. Written as a pseudotranslation, Tolkien’s work brings up medieval concepts not only in its form – the pseudotranslation – but also in its content – the characters – in a way that critics the concepts that he disagrees with. In this sense, Boromir shows a lot of discussion about the chavalary and its ethic, becoming a way of deeply discussing the concept of ofermod – the pride. The moral weekness and the possibility of redemption of the character also allows the author to update the classic concept of hybris through the story of rise, fall and redemption. Therefore, this Master’s thesis has the objective of analyse Boromir of Gondor’s construction through his narrative, analysing its description and its linguistics aspects. Therefore, it will be used the concepts of analytic psychology, narratology and linguistic, focousing on the concepts developed by the authors Carl Gustav Jung (1875 – 1961), Alan Rabatel (1959-) and Daniel-Henri Pageaux (1939-). We hope to analyse some of the pre-existenced notions people have about the character in the academic world and also analyse him more deeply. In this way, we hope to determine if his participation on the story is more than the reader’s eyes can see