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Jackson shortened everyone else's speaking parts and left only Boromir's stuff! The sword that was broken was there, but moved. Would have been good to have Boromir at least speak of the dream and the verse...

Seek for the Sword that was broken:
In Imladris it dwells;
There shall be counsels taken
Stronger than Morgul-spells.
There shall be shown a token
That Doom is near at hand,
For Isildur's Bane shall waken,
And the Halfling forth shall stand.

Wouldn't it have been neat to be in the room when they were writing the script, and debating what to put it, and what to leave out. What to move to a different place, and what to make up from scratch. There have to be reasons they felt the existing writing wouldn't work the way it was, or why would they go to the trouble of rewriting? I would never have made a good fly on the wall though... I would have had to speak up.

Jackson shortened everyone else's speaking parts and left only Boromir's stuff!

"Boromir's stuff" is important to those movie goers who haven't read the book - to emphazize why Gandalf fears the Ring (and just in case they thought G was a wimp!) People new to the story are asking the same question...why can't the good guys use the ring.

I do wish they had left that verse in about the sword that was broken--I honestly felt that was a big reason why everyone was so accepting of the idea of the ring-bearer being such a little guy. Otherwise, one is left wondering why in the world all these "big people" were just fine with Frodo being the ring-bearer.