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Originally Posted by mjbethancourt
Denethor had his reasons, but he's still a dick.
I think the biggest stick Denethor had up his bum, is that he'd looked into the Palantir, and he already knew that no matter how the war turned out, he and his family would be among the things swept away with the passing of an age: the days of the Stewards were finished, and the-world-as he-knew-it was over. How he reacted to that information was not very noble. Just because you are not going to be a part of the future, does not justify an attitude of "let the world burn, what do I care? There's nothing left in it for me." I think he went quite a bit farther than just not being very gracious about accepting his own mortality.
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That's not the way Denthor was portrayed in the books. He was a noble man whose mind was overthrown by looking into the palantir and seeing only what Sauron wanted him to see. He despaired of being able to stop Sauron's forces and on top of that lost his oldest son.