Why did the One Ring only corrupt Boromir? 

Im pretty sure Theoden, being another very human character, would have also been corrupted out of despair to save Rohan if he had met the Fellowship while it still had the ring.

I think its also fair to mention that Boromir was able to overcome the temptation and corruption few moments after he tried to take the Ring from Frodo, which is an impressive feat and growth of character. And he also managed to redeem himself and died uncorrupted, which is extremely important for his soul. So all in all Boromir was a very impressive character as well in my eyes. I often times wondered how he would have evolved, had he survived the battle at Amon Hen.

Another thing I think Boromir had going against him was his limited understanding of what the Ring was: he called it the weapon of the enemy. I think he saw it as akin to a sword which serves the hand holding it, not as having a will of its own and an ability to influence people around it.

Boromir is the best character in the fellowship for me. He's a man who falls to temptation and yet overcomes it to die in the defense of his friends. A true hero. Hail Boromir the brave.

The determinant point is how far people are willing to go to achieve their goals, Boromir is willing to save Minas Tirith at the expense of using the ring and fall into corruption, whereas Faramir is not, he is willing to accept his destruction before becoming corrupted

Surprisingly the Fellowship was a mostly well selected group of individuals for the quest of resisting the Ring long enough. You could say the odds were stacked against the One Ring pretty well.

Frodo fell to the power of the Ring too, don't forget. Besides, Boromir is the only character in the whole of the trilogy that falls to the power of the Ring and is then able to redeem himself, by himself. 'Lesser nobility' my a**e! He's a legend.

Boromir was also from Gondor and had been directly involved in fighting Mordor for quite some time. He knew Gondor was in desperate straits. I think that made him more vulnerable. P.S. I'll have you know, I would have been very resistant to the One. I would have been so resistant that ... OK, I would have been corrupted but I don't think I would pose much of a threat to the world.

I agree in general, but I think there were other issues at play. Pippin, in my opinion, is the most vulnerable, but he is also the one most guarded against, though not with any particular forethought. His natural impetuous inquisitiveness would have been the biggest vulnerability, but Frodo bears the Ring, and Pippin is mindful of his rank among the members and so his attentions safely turn to waking Balrogs and motivating Dark Lords. I think that Sam is also vulnerable, but in a direction that the Ring could not go. Sam is weakest toward his home, garden, and Gaffer, but for the Ring to tempt Sam into wearing it to protect these things is contrary to the Ring's purpose on the outskirts of Mordor. Further, as he has little desire to rule, the Ring would have been of small use to such noble ambitions. Thus his moment of temptation actually strikes at no weaknesses and bounces off the armor of the Gaffer's solid sensibilities. Lastly I believe that there is an alternative reason as to why only Boromir and Frodo were affected. The Ring is shown to have a corrosive impact on groups just by being in their presence, but it also appears to have at least a certain sentience about itself with its own formidable will. It had already had time to probe the defenses of each member of the Fellowship over time and find the hidden cracks to influence. In Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, Merry, and Sam, there are vulnerabilities but the effort to undermine their wills is greater than any potential benefit. This leaves Pippin, whom I have discussed early, Frodo, and Boromir. The Ring likely would have concentrated very little influence on Pippin as he has greater loyalty than ambition and his curiosity is not a sufficient quality to twist into betrayal, especially as he is surrounded by older, wiser, and stronger members whom he respects. The Ring has been working on Frodo for years with marginal success, and thus Boromir is the quickest and most hasty, as Treebeard would say, making him the best candidate for a more concentrated temptation and corruption.

Calling Boromir weak is like calling Olympic athletes who don't get a medal weak. They're still Olympic athletes!

Because he was the most human of them all

Sam's vision for turning Mordor into a giant garden would be hilarious if portrayed in the films.

You forgot Galadriel. She was very tempted by the One Ring. When she foretold that their quest stood on a knife-edge, was she referring also to herself, perhaps? She had the need. More than anyone but Gandalf, Galadriel had the innate power and experience to wield the One Ring. With it, and her allies, she probably could have defeated Sauron. And Frodo _offered_ her the One Ring; almost begged her to take the burden from him, as he had Gandalf. But she had doubtless already explored that option using her "Mirror" visions. Galadriel the Mighty would be beautiful and terrible, and would bring peace, and ultimately despair. Because coerced love is not love. Even with that wisdom of foresight, the One Ring was still a tough offer to turn down. The alternative seemed to be the domination of the whole world by Sauron, with just a tiny chance that the Fellowship's quest would succeed.

I think Aragorn recognised that despite Boramir's error, he otherwise was a true and steadfast friend to his companions. Boramir showed actual remorse for his error and a willingness to sacrifice for others. A virtuous man corrupted by his good intentions and lack of wisdom.

I think another aspect in favor of Aragorn was the fact that he was painfully aware of Isildur's failure to destroy the ring. He knows one of his ancestors already succumbed to the temptation, and didn't want to make the same mistake. It seems like that might help him resist the ring as well

I paraphrase, "How many years must the steward wait to take the throne should the king not return?" asked Boromir. "Few indeed, in houses of less renown, in Gondor 10,000 are not enough," responded Denethor, Steward of Gondor. How poorly Jackson treated Denethor is my greatest complaint. He was a flawed great man that broke in the end. NOT the joke of the movies. Boromir wanted to be king. It was all it took.

Boromir was a might and powerful person. And ring was aimed precisely at this kind of people. Whils Hobbits were never might, powerful or ambitions, they were already happy the way they are, mostly.

I've think you've said what needs saying. Boromir inherited less of the nobility of the Kings of men, and was more martial minded, and therefore could only focus on martial solutions. Those who treasure lore and seek the power in nobility and wisdom rather than might are less quick to stretch out their hands to an artifact of command. Boromir was neither evil nor weak, just less an heir of Numenor than Faramir or Aragorn, and more desperate than either to solve the military aspect of the equation in Gondor because that's where the battle was for him. He never had faith in Elrond's plan because he couldn't envision the halflings succeeding, so it boiled back down to a military solution as being naturally inevitable, and that meant Sauron cannot be handed the ring under any circumstances. So the situation broke him since all he foresaw was Frodo heading to Mordor to give the ring back.

Another factor in Gandalf's favor was he was already wearing the Elven ring of power, Narya. It strengthened his will, wisdom and resolve.

Let's not forget Boromir was given a direct order from his father/"king" Denethor to bring back the One Ring to Gondor at all costs that's why he joined the fellowship in the first place... and even though he lost to the ring for a moment, once Frodo disappeared, he quickly came back to his senses and realized he was wrong and seeing the true nature of the ring, he felt guilty, wanted to make ammends, atone and would've likely done everything to make sure the ring never came in Gondor's possession !!

I think boromir had grew up fighting the forces of mordor and was well aware that his country was slowly losing the war and also had the weight of the expectation to be the one to save his country. Having seen the power and army mordor was amassing he truly believed the mission to mount doom to destroy it was an impossible one and so he wanted the one ring to use it to attempt to save his people. I’m sure if there was a viable plan to destroy the ring he wouldve backed it and not been corrupted by it

Well done. Interesting consideration of the characters vis-a-vis the Ring. Even a lengthy trilogy can only go into so much depth on this sort of thing. One thing we can glean from the novel is that Denethor shared Boromir's lack of wisdom in this regard, and it was one of the ways he wronged Faramir to have resented his failure to seize and bring back this potential source of power. Boromir recognized his weakness, at the end, regretted and expiated it by protecting other members of the fellowship. But Faramir was wiser, even with less contact, and showed that Numenorean wisdom that his father and brother were more lacking in.

His desperation to save Gondor was so great that he let it corrupt him.

Denethor was very corrupted by Sauron through the palantir/seeing stone. Also, Sauron was certainly able to gather a great deal of information through the same stone, including both Boromir and Faramir, and the father-son relations, and was able to influence those relations to his advantage. It could be very likely that it was Sauron who put it in their heads to try to use the ring against himself. Without Gandalf, and Aragorn to affect the outcome of the Siege of Minas Tirith, the ring in Denethor's possession would be there almost for the taking. It was Denethor who put it into Boromir's head to try to get the ring for Gondor--- it was Boromir's assigned mission and reason for going to Rivendel it the first place--, and Sauron, with so much knowledge of these three, would be directing dark magic against them, especially Denethor and Boromir.

Boromir always reminded me of another character, Jack Torrence. Both of their worst traits were brought out of them by a powerful force that they couldn't resist, course there are differences between the two of them but the similarity is definitely still there.

Love both Faramir and Boromir in the books The movie didn't give them enough

However, Boromir redeemed himself, overcame the corruption, a patriot, snd sacrificed himself to save the fellowship

Age played a big part when it came to Numenoreans and their wisdom. Like you said Boromir at 40 was just a boy by Dunedain standards. Aragorn was in his 70s and had more time to nurture his wisdom.

Sam: These tempting visions are pretty silly. Ring: YOU DIDN'T GIVE ME ANYTHING TO WORK WITH!!!

Aragorn was raised by Elrond he was exposed to the ring lore, he also descended from a special lineage of men/Elf(Luthien)/Maia(Melian).

The first step for corruption of the Ring, is to desire it. If you start knowing it's dangerous, and nothing good would come of it, it might be easier to reject it outright, like Gandalf and Galadriel did. They were both tempted, both had a moment of desire for it, but both knew better as to accept it, and rejecting it saved them both. Faramir did the same in the end, while Boromir desired weapons and help for Gondor, and the ring, could have been that help he so desperately wanted. And thus, he never could stop thinking about it, and having to constantly fight himself over his desire for it, vs the good of all or simpler, what Aragon's goal was.(who he treated like the future King already).

I feel like the most important (to me) reason why Boromir got currupted by the One Ring wasn't mentioned in this video. I believe the curruption happened primarely because of Boromir's love and loyalty to his father. He greatly admires him and even tho he doesn't like him treating his brother Faramir like shit (that's the bare minimum for a a good brother and a good person, but seeing he is Denethor's son, still kinda surpising that he actually cared for and loved Faramir) he still doesn't want to dissapoint him, expecially because of how cruel Denethor is to Faramir whenever he "dissapoints" him, and Boromir knows that since he's been there watching it all happen since it started happening. I can totally understand Boromir wanting to keep the love of his toxic father and not get the same treatment his brother was getting. Did he really want the Ring so he could bring prosperity to Gondor?Well his dad told him that, in fact Bormir didn't even wanna go to Rivendell in the first place. The only reason why he goes is because of, again, his father. If a parent picks a favorite the relationship is gonna be unhealthy for the favorite kid too.

Aragorn had another advantage he feared he would be like his ancestor. this altho a possible vulnerability was not one the ring could use and a sheild to anything the ring would try

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I really wish I could debate with you in person on this one just because you know what you're talking about. I'm very good at debate as a matter of fact on a subject that I know I've never lost. I think one of the reasons faramir was able to resist it is because his brother was not and he knew that at least in the movie version. Boromir his brother was not a weak man at all! I can see him wanting to do right by his people and that ring being the only tool possible that could pull them out of the hole they were in. That is a temptation as old as the Earth itself I imagine. Boromir did not understand the ring. I also did not know he was descendant of numenor. Thank you for all the wonderful information

I'm amazed at the folks who try to paint Boromir as a sympathetic character. Although he "can" come through on the surface as someone who was stalwart, and lived for his country - a "good guy" - I've never seen him as such. Just a note: I bought the edition of the trilogy - 3 books in a sleeve illustrated with a map of Middle Earth - when I was 18 - 58 years ago. I still have that edition. I've read it every year, since. I've listened to audio books, as well. I'm familiar with the story, you might say. I also have The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, Farmer Giles of Ham, Leaf By Niggle and Smith of Wooten Major. All the character of Boromir comes out in his "counsel" to Frodo at Parth Galen - when no one else is around. You see glimpses along their way - but it really all comes out during that rant. He is a completely bigoted, one-dimensional xenophobe. Despite hearing the counsel of Elrond - the greatest lore-master - who was actually AT the Battle of the Last Alliance - and who has one of the Elven rings, himself . . . Gandalf - who is thousands of years old . . . Aragorn - who has fought this battle for twice Boromir's life-time . . . Galadriel - who is ALSO thousands of years old . . . he discounts and discards their experience and knowledge. He talks constantly of his city, of the "true-hearted MEN" that live there. He's in his 40s, but has no love interest (Aragorn is definitely a man's man - but has carried a torch for Arwen for almost 70 yrs at the time of the Fellowship - and Sam loves Rosie Cotton) - and is only interested in military might. Boromir positively SNEERS at the contribution of all these people - he SNEERS at the idea that Hobbits, Dwarves, Elves, Wizards, Rangers - could be anything near worthwhile as his "true-hearted MEN" of Gondor. And as far as his relationship with his brother . . . he NEVER castigates his father for being horrible to Faramir, and that he (Boromir) dislikes it. His father so dotes on Boromir - that anything he might say would be at least listened to. But he says nothing. And even though it was FARAMIR who had the dream many times - and Boromir only once - he snatched the task out from under Faramir's nose. He's not multi-layered at all. He's arrogant, bigoted and xenophobic - thinks that only MEN are capable in any way. Particularly - the MEN of Gondor. Even though all the other players, there, save the Hobbits . . . eg., Elrond, Gandalf, Legolas, Gimli, Aragorn, Galadriel - outrank his ass a bazillion times over. I refuse to keep trying to see what isn't there . . .

Bilbo was most certainly corrupted by the ring. Frodo was as well. Hobbits have a natural resistance to evil, however they are not impervious to it. I think the reason it so quickly corrupted Boromir is simply he succumbed to his desperation to save Gondor. The ring took advantage of that and has its own will. It chooses whom it thinks would be its best option to get back to Sauron.

I always felt Boromier had the right idea. Played way to many games that involved using artifacts to crush the darkness to consider throwing it away. So yes I would have been corrupted very fast.

It's more accurate to say that it corrupted him a little faster. Most would have been corrupted by it with enough exposure, even Frodo eventually succumbed. That was the entire point behind splitting up the fellowship, that none of them are immune, the hobbits being the ones to carry it due to being the most resistant to it.

Excellent analysis and breakdown

I haven’t read the books as recently as I would like to have, but I want to say that Aragorn suggests if not states that he actually fears falling to the Ring’s temptation and knows he could be susceptible, but like Gandalf, he has the sense to steer as far from it as possible. Also, I think that Gimli’s love of the material is manifest enough to suggest it could be exploited, but it wouldn’t do the Ring much good to try to corrupt him.

I wonder if the One Ring would affect someone with the mindset of having a absolute disgust for external power. There are some villains that despise relying on trinkets or other external sources of power so I wonder if their sheer stubbornness would shield them from the One Rings influence.

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sam turning mordor into a giant garden is a neat alternative story idea

Thnx for another great vid!

I think there are 2 others points in Faramir's favor: 1) he took after his mother, Findulas of Dol Amroth, a descendant of Merilias (sp) the elf. The elf blood was so strong in her brother, it caused Legolas, an elf prince, to bow in reverence. 2) he said it himself; he'd made an offhanded remark, "not if I saw this thing lying on the road would I stoop to take it" and because he is a true man of Gondor, and a true son of the Edain, even an offhanded remark has the force of a vow, of giving his word, and he is bound by that word, to not take the Ring. So to corrupt him, the Ring has to get past his own elven nature and his given word, which would help to sustain him in his efforts to resist.

Thecnicly Boromir was told to go get the "weapon" by his father. Just by this fact alone, he was already set up to be easier to fall. He already had a conflict inside himself before the jorney started - Take the ring, as requested by his father, or follow the fellowship and destroy it. The Ring would understand this.

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"No elf serves evil willingly," huh? Tell that to Amazon.

because he was the only human who encountered it totally unprepared for its power, Farimir was described as the Wizards pupil and Aragorn was schooled his entire life on it no doubt.

boromir was the height of human race for me. he shows how he, as human, can easily be tempted with dark power. but at the same time, able to see their own wrongdoing and correct themselves, redeem themselves with great deeds

We already saw that Faramir WANTED the One Ring, was mesmerized by it. That's what prompted his decision to take it to Gondor. I think if Faramir had been exposed as long as Boromir was, Faramir would have fallen under its influence as well. So its not fair to say he wasn't corrupted. The One Ring was beginning to influence him, as much as it did Samwise when he hesitated to give the One Ring back to Frodo.

I never even really considered boromir to have been corrupted like that. At first I did, but when we got to the 3rd movie and learned how hard and how much his father seemed to have pushed the idea on him. I figured he was doing it for that and not the the ring itself. Especially because of how he resisted and then later died protecting Frodo. Maybe I’m just slow🤷🏼‍♂️

I always thought Faramir was way cooler than Boromir, when i was younger and haven't seen extended edition of lotr yet. Now that i have they are totally different movies.

not to mention he had his brother as an example of the ring's corruption

I hate how people give him shit yet frodo did the same thing at the climax of his journey

The basic error Boromir made was to think he could use the ring against its creator.

Nice

Because it used his desperation and noble intentions of saving his people to ensnare him

Boromir also had the significant temptation to relieve his father of his growing depression due to Gondor’s situation and the effects it had on Faramir.

If you look at the meeting in movie, just before Fordo says he will take it to Mordor, the ring was working on the entire group and they all began arguing over the ring. It's likely that had Fordo not voluntarily taken the task, a full scale fight would have taken place.

Faramir (books) is my favorite character. He carried the weight of Gondor on his shoulders. His father pretty much despising him. Had the ring in the palm of his hands (figuratively speaking). Yet, rejected the ring without so much as a second thought.

I felt that ending as a personal attack lol

He didn't understand the subtle deadly threat the ring posed and so didn't fear it.

"...Another vertically challenged member of the fellowship, Gimli" LMAO 💀😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Boromir, Is a perfect case of the greed. selfishness and weakness of men, to resist temptation. Its this same weakness and greed in leadership that has led us down this path we are on. And its so deep i see no change comming in the forseable future, if there is one.

The Ring also does have something of a mind of its own (even apart from Sauron's mind since if Gandalf / Saruman / Galadriel got it, they'd be able to destroy Sauron rather easily... but still be totally corrupted by the One Ring) such that if anyone was put into Frodo's shoes at the Crevasse, they would be instantly overcome by the Ring and be unable to willingly cast it into the lava.

It seems there are generally two main ways people look at Sméagol, either as an evil, greedy, psychopathic murderer from the beginning who only needed the slightest nudge to be driven to total depravity, or as a sweet, innocent little hobbit who did a complete 180 because of the ring’s power and isn’t really responsible for his actions (this latter mainly being held by people who don’t really understand or think too much about how it works and just want to be able to like him without feeling sick for it). I believe he is somewhere between. I think he suffered from some developmental disorders and antisocial personality disorder, aka psychopathy. So he was very easily susceptible because he didn’t have a well developed conscience per se to resist the impulses it impressed upon him, but he wasn’t really evil. This makes him all the more tragic. But that’s just me and really all speculation.

If Sauron was in Don Guldur instead of in Mordor and the armies of Sauron was threatening the Kingdom of the Elves in Mirkwood perhaps then Legolas would have felt a more direct fear and thus been tempted. Perhaps not. Instead Boromir is in a position where his home is threatened and this ring appears as if it is the greatest weapon with which to oppose Sauron and defend Gondor.

We all know that Pippen with his curiosity would have been the next to fall under the Ring's spell.

Boromir was cut while handling Narsil at Rivendell. The blade still had Sauron's blood on it, that infected him, which made him corrupted and susceptible to the power of the ring.

He gave the ring back on the mountain. He always had a good heart.

Gandalf was very susceptible to the pull of the One Ring. He even began shouting at Frodo to stop tempting him. Galadriel wasn’t resistant as well. Despite being a powerful elve. A lot of this is so so information.

He carried the most stress. That weakend him. Thanks Denethor. Plus he seemed to be the most desperate in finding a way to help Gondor. Stress and Desperation is my guess.

My lack of ambition would see me through.

On top of the Ring, Boromir also had the pressure of his father who wanted him to secure it for Gondor

The real question, why is Sean bean so awesome?

Kinda says something about how bad a seed smeagol was that despite being a hobbit, he became dominated by the One Ring almost immediately

5:15 I think a negative reinforcement kind of corruption would work way better on the hobbits because they are already content. If the ring tried to corrupt them into thinking that unless they take the ring and use its power, they would lose the shire and their way of life, i think this would be more effective.

Been a while since I read the books, so I'm going based on the movie. I never thought boromir was corrupted. I just thought he was tempted by the power in combination with his near constant war with the orcs and easterlings. I felt his actions in death just proved he was never actually corrupted, he was just a human with human foibles

Please make a video on the Orcs of the east.

He was the only one who wanted the ring. He also was the only pure man. Aragon was Numenorean.

You may want to do a video on 'was the One Ring sentient' or some such thing? Tolkien speaks of it having its own will, and of Sauron pouring his power into it, but I'm not sure that the behavior of the ring 100 percent tracks with it being a manifestation of Sauron's will. If the latter, then it seems like it would have drawn Gollum to Dol Guldur or tempted Sam with something more immediate than the world as a garden. If it truly wants to get back to its master than any orc will do. Not because that orc will overthrow Sauron (!) but because any orc who showed off a ring would quickly have had it confiscated and brought to Sauron.

Never knew Farrimere and Borremier were decendants of Nemenore..So how old was there father? And for that matter How old were they? Seeing as the were Numenoreans?

Boromir on the surface was what men should be, he was strong, wise in his own way, kind and loyal. If you delve deeper however, Boromir was also proud, he wanted to be the one to save Gondor, he wanted to be king, he wanted to avenge Gondor for the wrongs that Mordor had done to it over the years. He had never really been humbled. The ring understands power and dominion and latches onto to that. Aragorn had been humbled by spending a life time in the wilderness, he also wanted above all to marry Arwen. The ring may have helped him achieve these things, but history had taught him that the ring eventually would have taken anything he gained away from him. Elves are corruptible, particularly when they are young, but mostly they want to maintain things as they are, where as the ring can only destroy. Dwarves on the surface are greedy and petty, but they value loyalty and honour more than gold, then ring only inspires fear. Hobbits just want to eat, drink and tend their gardens, the ring just doesn’t understand them, Bilbo and Sam where both able to give the ring away. Gandalf is probably the one the ring to get to the most, it could offer him power, power to protect people at first, then it would be power to direct people as he saw fit, for their own benefit. Be he had the wisdom to resist, he could have asked for the ring in Moria, with it, he could have easily have slain the balrog and saved his friends, but chose to meet the Balrog without aid. Gollum wasn’t evil before the ring got to him, the ring simply corrupted him through jealousy, it was his birthday and Deagol found a treasure, a treasure that should have been his, as it was his birthday. In murdering his cousin/friend to poses the ring, the corruption set in and he started to perform wicked deeds with the ring. As horrible as it sounds, but fate seems to have wanted Smeagle to find the ring, no other being other than a hobbit could have possessed it for 500 years and not faded completely into the shadow. Bilbo, Sam and Frodo didn’t murder anyone to get the ring, this helped starve off the corruption and isildur and Gollum started their ownership with a murderous rage, Boromir’s ownership would have been the same, it would have aided the corruption.

How about an episode on the Maia?

We also have to remember that he was in the presence of the ring for a lot longer than the movie implies for the movie makes it seem like it's a couple of days at most when it was more like 1-3 weeks

As Galadriel said, they would have all fallen to the ring, one by one. It may take a while but most if not all of the fellowship would have been swayed eventually. Well, maybe not Sam. He was too pure of heart.

Even Sméagol didn’t seem to have any grand aspirations apart from fishing and hunting.

Boromir had a strong sense of Task and no sense of Purpose. Boromir represents people that have strong will and a lack of wisdom. He was a mighty warrior willing to die for no less than the sake of honour and tradition versus the objective. He represents peoples that have hatred and honour but do not understand why.

Above all, Boromir was proud. And pride is not a virtue.

He like his father, we're in FEAR and they desired POWER. It's understandable. His kingdom had been at war with the Orcs for decades and he wanted to slaughter them. He wasn't 'weak' he was just not onboard with the mission and his father had put him up to the idea of taking the ring. In truth, it was the Steward of Gondor that initiated Boromir's mind to that end. Aragorn was right to tell Boromir that he would not lead the ring anywhere NEAR Gondor. He had already heard Boromirs argument and observed his posture, he knew that Boromir only agreed to come on the mission so he could craft an opportunity to take the ring from Frodo.

It corrupted Frodo at the end...he was about to keep it.

I believe the ring targeted him knowing he would take it to Gondor. Where it would be found.

In the case of Elves who would probably be corrupted by the Ring there are some within the Silmarrilion who would've likely have fallen to it'. Fëanor for one would not have been unmoved by it, and probably some of his sons. And there's also Eöl and his son Maeglin to consider, especially the latter one because he would tried to use the Ring somehow to get rid of Tuor and get idril Celebrindal for himself if it had existed at the time.

Might makes right. If you even need the ring in the first place, you're not strong enough. That's why I'd toss it aside. Strength is born from weakness. The best comes from the worst. BE that danger. Be corruption itself. Let the worst happen. No need for a "magic problem solver". BE the problem solver. Embrace every faliure. Perhaps this is why Tom doesn't need the ring.

Cuz he had the most pressure other than arragon. He spent decades battling orcs and watching friends and brothers of Gondor get slaughtered. He wasn’t seeking power for the sake of power. He wanted to save his people and his will wasn’t strong enough to resist it. The rest would’ve been over taken by the ring soon as well. He was just the first

Thank you for making real Tolkien content and not woke Amazon crap.

Because Frodo left before the rest could be corrupted and Boromere Is the only one beside Frodo to come into contact with it when he picked it up to hand to Frodo after he tumbled on the mountain path and it fell off.

Don't use the words "close" and "proximity" together. It's a tautology as the word "proximity" means to be close to something. So in essence the term "close proximity" means close close, therefor "close" or "proximity" become redundant. Just use "proximity" by itself or "close" by itself, eg., Subject A is in proximity to subject B, or subject A is close to subject B, but never subject A is in close proximity to subject B.