Boromir was the only member of the Fellowship who tried to take the ring. He was vain and entitled, believing that he alone, of the Fellowship, was worthy of the ring. He was a thief and a traitor.
Boromir was a Lord of Gondor, and he wanted everyone to know it. “His garments were rich, his cloak was lined with fur, and he had a collar of silver in which a single white stone was set.”
Boromir did not redeem himself. He failed to protect Merry and Pippin from the orcs, who wouldn’t have found the hobbits wandering alone if it weren’t for Boromir’s actions in the first place.
Boromir would not have felt remorse or apologised if he had succeeded in taking the ring; he only did because he was caught. His image was so important to him that his “heroic” death was staged to create sympathy and goodwill so that he would not be remembered through the ages as a thief and a traitor.
Boromir got what he deserved.
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Every single member of the fellowship would have turned against Frodo at one point. It’s what he realized after Boromir and why he decided to leave them. Recall, he also saw it in the water with Galadriel.
Boromir was the first to be corrupted because he was the most desperate. The others didn’t have homelands that were under siege yet.
The others didn’t have homelands that were under siege yet.
Well, they already passed through Moria by this point, Id assume Gimli would be the next character to be tempted had the party continued together.
Mortal men cannot long resist the influence of the Ring at such close proximity. Replace Boromir with any other human, dwarf, or elf, and some member of the Fellowship would still have turned on the ring-bearer by the end.
Hobbits are more resilient, but with long enough exposure even they can be swayed. It was only a matter of time.
This is how I see it too. His intentions were pure - he wanted the ring’s power to save Gondor. The Ring corrupted and exploited those desires. In the books, we know his immediate thoughts were for the people of Gondor and the hobbits he felt like he failed, and he gave his life to defend their escape.
It’s worth saying that hobbits are more resistant because they don’t really desire any worldly power or wealth. They just want to be left alone, which is part of the reason why Sméagol took the ring into the mountains and disappeared for 500 years. The ring plays upon your desires, so his desire for solitude was amplified considerably.
No that’s a pretty common view.
I mean, that was essentially the point of Boromir’s death: the allure of the Ring corrupted him and he became an example for the Fellowship (and the reader) for the insidious power of the One Ring.
The movies gave him a much more pronounced Forlorn Hope scene but Boromir is really meant to embody why it had to be one the most unlikely creatures to succeed.
Ring to human: “You will rule all of Middle Earth!”
Ring to hobbit: “You will have…the best gardens covering all Middle Earth? What the fuck is wrong with you??”
The fact the hobbits became invisible and unnoticed when using it is probably no coincidence.
It made Isildur invisible too.
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Well then. Yes.
Boromir is a desperate man. Gondor is getting its ass kicked, and losing the war. His actions are consistent with that.
He did, and that’s why the movies did Faramir dirty. Faramir was supposed to be better than his brother, the movies made him just the same. :(
I felt like the movies did that just fine. Faramir was able to resist the pull of the ring when he knew it was fully within his grasp if he chose.
Boromir failed almost immediately. He barely tried to resist it, and so he fell the fastest.
Yes, Faramir had learned that his brother fell to the ring’s temptation but Boromir was already walking down that road too.
Boromir resisted multiple times. His temptation was kicked into overdrive when he picked the ring up by Frodo’s necklace after Frodo dropped it. Boromir’s corruption is not a fault in him, it is an example of the ring’s power. Even Gandalf was sent into an hours long muttering disconnected mental state just from touching the ring for half a second. Faramir never saw the ring. He never held the ring. He just knew it was there, and still almost failed.
I’ve never read the books. But it’s hard not to feel bad every time seen been’s character gets killed off.
Did you misspell Sean Bean on purpose?
It threw me through a loop.
I never got why people were so attached to him. Sure, he had reason to literally be the weakest link in the party, being desperate and all, but they also only gave him like two scenes where he comes across as a likeable guy, and one of them wasn’t even in the theatrical cut
