[carton253]

Discussion of Boromir still creates heat, doesn't it?

There's no heat... it's a discussion!

[Overtaxed]

There's no heat... it's a discussion!

If you want heat, bash the Elves! :D

[Burr5]

"There's no heat- it's a discussion!" LOL! Good for you. But try this on: it does seem that everyone's analysis of Boromir is based on what others thought of him, expected of him, feared about him, etc. My only point is that the change in Boromir as he attempts to take the ring indicates the influence of an external power, and thus suggests that his actions weren't anything he was "planning" all throughout the journey: '"Miserable trickster!" he shouted. "Let me get my hands on you! Now I see your mind. You will take the Ring to Sauron and sell us all. You have only waited your chance to leave us in the lurch. Curse you and all Halflings to death and darkness!" Then, catching his foot on a stone, he fell sprawling and lay upon his face. For a while he was still as if his own curse had struck him down; then suddenly he wept............' Okay, this is not a scene depicting a man carrying out a long-planned coup. It ISN'T the Boromir the reader has gotten to know. It's a scene showing the Ring taking control of a very conflicted man's weakness. What say you?