Actually I wasn't disagreeing with you on a whole lot. I thought it was a good, indepth, essay on Boromir's character. Most of the stuff from my post I was giving you other things that you might want to add in and strengthen it even more. For example, his redemption to Anglo-Saxon Laws of Compensation, and the fact that he ended up taking orders from Aragorn. Just some other things that you might want to add, if you so wish.
The only thing I really didn't agree with was this:
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Boromir was talked negatively upon by Tolkien a couple of times in the posthumously published Letters. One I will go into detail about later. The other- as Tolkien talks about Faramir, he mentions that he had “a ‘bossy’ brother”
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Perhaps I just read it wrong, but it seems like you were implying Tolkien thought badly about Boromir, which is why you bring up the Letter where he is compared to Saruman and Denethor. Which, is why I felt need to comment that he wasn't so Boromir 'negative' as what it seems. For Boromir was first indeed 'evil' in Tolkien's earliest drafts, but he was greatly altered in the final version. If this is not what you were saying, then I read it wrong, but it looked like you were implying that Tolkien didn't like Boromir too much.
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Good point. Of course, in Tolkien's world there is Good & Evil~davem
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And of course that's what I meant.
I was highlighting the characters who were more gray, they were against Sauron but either for another evil purpose, or just had the wrong outlook of how to go about beating him.