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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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.
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.
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.
Afaik lore wise dwarves are quite unswayed by magic rings. They hold little power over them. Ofc this is the one ring, but I don’t feel Gimli would be next.
Pippin however would totally go for it like he did with the palantir.
That’s not what we’re seeing in Rings of Power season two.
No because the writer(s) are clearly on drugs. At least that’s the only way to explain that shit.
I haven’t read The Similarian, but we know from the LotR series that all races were duped into taking the rings and controlled by them. So how do the books differ if you don’t mind explaining. Actually, I don’t want spoilers! I’m going to read it some day. I swear! But do tell me, does the dwarven king not become overwhelmed by the ring’s influence in the books?
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.
No that’s a pretty common view.
