Timeline for Since Boromir wanted the One ring so badly, why didn't he volunteer to take it during the Council of Elrond?
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| Jul 7, 2017 at 19:08 | comment | added | Pryftan | Wrt Tolkien and you being naïve I don't think you are either. He did introduce a lot of things that would suggest what you did. There is the example where Sam sees a fallen man (Haradrim) and he wonders if he was truly evil or if he'd have rather stayed at home. Even Gollum had chances of redemption and wasn't wholly evil. Elrond even says about Sauron that nothing starts out as evil. Boromir was noble but as Faramir says it was too sore a trial for him. Even Saruman started wise but fell from grace. This isn't too unlike our world, is it? | |
| Oct 21, 2015 at 15:11 | comment | added | Saya Perez | Also, while Boromir was not aware of the existence of the ring before the council, he had heard tell of a "bane of Isildur" - which turned out to be the ring. This "bane of Isildur" was something that weighed upon Boromir and Denethor's minds greatly, to the point where Denethor was easily able to figure out that this bane was the ring without being told outright. Even if he was completely unaware of the ring before the council, however, I don't think it means that he couldn't have made up his mind at the council to take the ring for himself/his father/Gondor down the line. | |
| Oct 21, 2015 at 15:08 | comment | added | Saya Perez | "To continue, and Moreover, the concept of honor would contradict such conduct from Boromir, it would in some ways go against everything he and Gondor stood for, even though he could bring the victory of his city." Can this be truly said, though, when Boromir was driven to cast away such honor later on in the story when he attempts to take the ring by force? Secondly, Denethor makes it clear that he expected his son to seize the ring and give it to him, in fact, supposing that had he not died he would have done so and this action would have been approved by him. | |
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| Oct 19, 2015 at 1:47 | history | answered | malcontent | CC BY-SA 3.0 |