People behind the characters!!!

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Sean Bean!!	"Because Borimir is a man, as oppoesed to an elf, Dwarf or Hobbit, he brings, I think a very human quality to the fellowship." Sean Bean is considering his character in The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy. The role is complex one: Borimir is the eldest son of Denethor, stweard of Gondor, the southern realm of Middle Earth, which is being Beleaguered by the forces of the Drak Lord Sauron. Having travelled to Rivendale to speak at the council of Elrond on behalf of his people, Borimir becomes a member of the fellowhip. Though noble and heroic, Borimir has a fatal flaw: "Being human" says bean 'He's more susceptible to the power of the Ring and is constantly having to fight against it. He knows hat it's got a strong draw on him and, throiughout the journey, that keeps praying on his mind. Borimir's facination with the Ring places the entire quest in peril. As Bean remarks 'By the end, although too late, he understands why it's just not possible to take the Ring and use it.' With his recentfilm and televison work, the British-born actor has gained two distinct repotations for himself: as the hard man and the lover. As well as playing Alec Trevelyn (006) the good guy tuned bad guy who opposes Pierce Brosnan's Bond in Goldeneye and Sean Miller, The terrorist who persues Harrison Ford in Patriot Games, bean has shown a more romatic side to his personality as he compromised photographer in A Woman's Guide To Adultry and as Mellors, the gamekeeper lover in Lady Chatterley, Ken Russell's TV adaption of DH Lawrence infamous novel. After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, Bean negan his Stage carrer in London's West End variety of shakespearean roles before making his film debut in Caravaggio. Other films include War Reuiem, Black Beaty and Robert De niro spy-thriller, Ronin, in which he plays the role os Spence, the Britsh weapons expert. On television, sean has starred in a number of popular series amoung them, Lorna Doone, Clarissa, Scarlett and his acclaimed performance in the title role os Sharpe, the Napoleonic was hero in th novels of Benard Cornwell. A diverse and talented actor, Bean recent work has ranged from gangster Jason Locke in Essex Boys to providing the voice for the Nun's Priest in an award winning puppet version of The Canterbury Tales. Bean's role in The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy is both physically and emotionally demanding: grappling with a character who acts quite wrongly for many of the best motives. Sean Bean describes Borimir as 'Resolute, determined and claer thinking, a man of battle, Borimir has a very clear opinion about wanting to use the Ring to help his people. But although he has very direct ambitions, he eventually comes to see things in a different light.'