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but now that i’m more into the fandom and more in depth watching the movies i see that he was just weak to the power of the ring.

#love chewing on this man because it's SO IMPORTANT to face up to the way that even good people can become tools of oppression#deconstruction is important kids and good intentions are not enough

Facinating take on Boromir you have there, I quite agree.

But also, if I may clarify and add to part of what I think you're saying:

Boromir falls because he believes himself to be incorruptable.

Boromir doesn't consider the possibility of his own corruption because Gondor is his whole world. Gondor is, in his limited perspective, the ONLY thing keeping Mordor back from taking over Middle Earth, and to stand against Mordor is to stand with Gondor. If you're not standing with specifically Gondor with your whole chest, you may as well be cheering Sauron's name.

He gets this from his father, btw, and Denethor's tragedy is ultimately very similar to Boromir's -- that he can't see beyond Gondor's fate and Gondor's struggle. As far as both of them are concerned Gondor's survival is the only thing that matters because Mordor has no other opponent. If Gondor falls then Mordor has won, full stop.

Boromir gets called out for this attitude at the council of Elrond, because of course this is a war that has been fought for much longer than his lifetime and on far more fronts by the people at the table with him, and he does stand down. But like. grudgingly. And he very much does not give up the idea that Gondor is Sauron's only meaningful opposition. That idea is understandable from somebody who has spent literally his whole life fighting the shadow and hasn't seen any allies in that fight, but his fatal flaw is the pride that keeps it in place even after he's left his own land and gained experience that should have broadened his perspective.

To add to that, Gondor itself is deeply flawed. Boromir loves his people with his whole heart and would happily die fighting for them, but that love got corrupted a long time ago, before Sauron ever moved back into Barad-Dûr, before Númenor even drowned, because Gondor's foundations are built on high-men vs low-men and blood superiority and violent colonization and pride of that insidious sort that tells good men that they are entitled to power and domination over other, weaker men.

Gondor has patterns of take, conquer, rule written into its earliest histories and those patterns are echoed on Parth Galen, when Boromir tries to physically overpower somebody much smaller than himself because he feels entitled to take what Frodo is withholding -- it could have been mine. It should be mine. Give it to me. And he feels entitled because he doesn't consider any land or people to be on equal footing to his own, he can't consider any struggle against Sauron other than Gondor's to be meaningful, he can't conceive of the value of any strength other than what he knows.