[eleanor_niphredil]

I have just finished reading Shakespears Macbeth, and I noticed that the character of Macbeth is very similar to that of Boromir, in that:

1) They both start of as warriors, noble and valient, or gereral "good guys"

2)They both are corrupted through the desire for something they cannot have. What the ring is to Boromir is power to Macbeth.

3)They are both fooled into thinking that getting what they want will have good results.

4) They both see what went wrong right at the end, but manage to die a nobal death, perhaps prooving that they are still the good guy they once were.

do you think that these parallels are a simple coincidence, or something more? I know that Tokien claims to hate the works of Shakespear, but perhaps without knowing it, the character of Boromir became Macbeth?