Post-traumatic stress disorder sometimes occurs after people experience traumatic or catastrophic events (Gandalf's death in this case), such as physical or sexual assaults, natural disasters, accidents, and wars. People with this disorder relive the traumatic event through recurrent dreams or intrusive memories called flashbacks. They avoid things or places associated with the trauma and may feel emotionally detached or estranged from others. Other symptoms may include difficulty sleeping, irritability, and trouble concentrating.
-Encarta.com
Hence, Boromir wouldn't have been mentally stable at the time he tried to get the ring from Frodo.
Does this clear it up?
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Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them?
Then don't be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
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