We know he is a strong swimmer, he is one of only four to escape the assault on Osgiliath by swimming and so when his horse is lost he manages to salvage his sword, horn, helm, shield and fur lined cloak but those are all items that he would have been wearing.Sorrel wrote:We know he loses his horse crossing the Ford at tharbad, where it runs back to the Rohirrim, and then he has to walk the rest of the way, so he didn't even take spare horses
As an interesting aside Eomer says that the horse which returns is one that they lent him so he lost his first horse due to ill fortune as well as his second?
Prepare to be boggled my good man! Boromir at the council of Elrond -Manveruon wrote:It boggles my mind to think that such an important person as Boromir would have made such a long and perilous journey entirely unescorted.
I can imagine it being what he wore but as much as I can see it, I can't get my mind past the practicality. The whole lost luggage and the fact swimming with all the above items would be hard enough without a big clunky chain as well.In this evil hour I have come on an errand over many dangerous leagues to Elrond: A hundred and ten days I have journey all alone
Soooooooo now for the enxt can of worms - what do we all think Boromirs helm look like?