The Shadow on Boromir

[SonOfSamWise]

"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost."

Boromir was ostentatious.

Although this potential Steward of Gondor enjoyed a wise and valiant lineage, when he arrived in Imaldris, he bore only the gilded trappings of majesty and nobility.

Every thread of his desire and will had been looted and inseminated by the will and desire of Sauron.

He was moved to Rivendale by the Lord of the Ring.

Boromir was the son of Denethor, a man who cloyed his mind on the dark knowledge he found in a Palantir.

Because of this, Denethor was an apprentice Witch-King and aspiring wraith.

Because he was in possession of a Palantir, Sauron was in the heart of the Palantiri.

Galdalf knew the Palantiri could be perilous because all were not accounted for.
Saruman communicated with Sauron through the Palantir.
The spirit of Pippin was soiled by simply handling a Palantir.

"The west has failed," cried Denethor, before throwing himself on his pyre.

Because Boromir had been inoculated by his father's dark knowledge and pessimism, (a growing pessimism that was probably passed to Denethor) the shadow of Sauron clouded and turned his heart.

Thus, Boromir's pessimism, avarice and desire to wield an evil ring of power.

Boromir’s spirit was weakened by Denethor's dark knowledge.

Thus, he was the only one in the fellowship who succumbed to the temptation of the ring.

Boromir's death foreshadowed the death of evil and the abdication of weakness found in the hearts of men.

Faramir, and his yoking to the stately Eowyn, symbolizes man's ascent back to nobility and back into the light.

Eowyn’s groaning maturity also symbolizes man’s ascent to light.

Similarly, Aragorn symbolizes the noble and humble
(faltering at first, then growing in strength, courage and resolve)
struggle of the human spirit as it reaches for the Elves of a higher call.

Thus, his yoking to Arwen Undomiel, Elf of the Evening Star.
Men are to assume the scepter of the Elves.

But who can surpass the heroic nobility and Elvish nature of Samwise, son of Hamfast, and Frodo, Son of Drogo?

"Heroes are not born, they are cornered."