What Would You Do As Boromir?

[Inziladun]

Originally Posted by Nikkolas

Say you are Boromir and you don't get killed by Orcs. Forgetting how the wider story changes, you head back to your home with Aragorn and now you are in the clinch. What decision do you make? Do you honor his kingship or do you stand by the line of the Stewards? Have they not done their best to rule Gondor for hundreds of years? Why does this stranger get to march in and take over everything?

This is a personality test, no?

I honestly believe I would honor the claim of Aragorn, and encourage my father to do likewise. In LOTR, oathbreaking is a serious matter, and leads to ruin for those guilty of it. The Stewards were under oath to rule in the name of the king until one returned, not to rule in their own. Some sort of popular decision would have had to have been made by Gondor's people to allow the Steward to become King.

If vows are cast aside because they become inconvenient or unattractive, they are worthless as a guide and framework of law.