Great Movie, Bad Aspect

[Alister_M]

Originally Posted by farerb

The Return of the King: Gandalf murdering Denethor, who manages to run a few miles while he burns.

What an utterly ridiculous interpretation of that scene. For one thing, Denethor was already hell-bent on burning himself alive, and Gandalf hardly forced him to go jump off the ledge. He may have had a brief moment of clarity when he realized Faramir was still alive, but he was still quite irrevocably mad by that point. Gandalf's actions were manslaughter by way of intentional negligence at worst.