Child - Never mistake the character for the writer!
So, could you say that Boromir was a convenient prop used by Tolkien, an artifice designed to bring out certain aspects of other characters.
He was a character never intended to be fully fleshed out and was discarded when he served his purposes.
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Eldest, that’s what I am . . . I knew the dark under the stars when it was fearless - before the Dark Lord came from Outside.
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