My Essay: "A Defense of Character: Boromir"

[drigel]

Great points and a nice essay.

The thing with Boromir is he is the High Captain/Warden of the White Tower. Kid of like the Commander in Chief today, he is the commander/leader of Gondor's army. He is the one used to giving orders and having those orders followed out.

A life like that would lead one to see anything (or anyone) one encounters as a potential tool for the ultimate mission.

He was flawed, ...

I suppose the point I would make at this point is: so was Frodo. He, at the end, "failed" too, because he was flawed. So, are we to consider his level of evilness, due to his finally succuming to evil? IMO if Frodo had any experience of leadership, or a real sense of the stakes at hand, or a tab bit more ego/ambition, he would have "failed" a lot earlier.

nice work!