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Boromir wanted it from the start. And, to add, Boromir was with the rest of the company of the Fellowship, which proves a bit of an odd situation if he were to take the Ring. Meanwhile, when Frodo and Sam are in Henneth-Annun with Faramir, the younger brother has about two hundred men at his disposal, and he had them cornered after the meal. Of course, he purposely intimidated/made fun of them by standing up and saying "Hah!...etc, etc," but he still rejected the Ring. If not in oath, then by nature (recall how he says: "Even if I were one to desire such a thing...").
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Very good point, though I would say that Boromir never consiously wanted the Ring for him self. He honestly believed he could take it to his father without sucoming to it.
I don't understand why you guys are saying Isildur "claimed" the ring. Well I guess he did, but not in the same way and Gollum did, and Boromir, Saruman, and Denthor wanted to, and Faramir would have had to had he wanted it. It came to him and, as far as I know, there was no reason why he would have known not to take it. The seen in the movie where Elrond takes him to Mount Doom and he consiously claims it in spite of the warnings certainly did not happen. Isidur's keeping the ring was no worse than Bilbo's, in fact Bilbo's was worse since he knew it was Gollums and took it anyways.