 The film depicts Denethor as self-indulgent, eating and drinking gluttonously as besiegers approach the city, whereas in the book he is sternly ascetic in his habits.As to his death, in the book he immolates himself in a funeral pyre, though Gandalf saves Faramir from the same fate; in the film, Denethor, on fire, throws himself from the tower of Minas Tirith.Boromir

Boromir is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium.