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Though Kingcarlton has a good and obvious point, utterly open-ended thoughts and ideas like this are fun to ponder.
I actually think that even if Boromir hadn't been there to bug Frodo, the Fellowship still would have broken. It seemed as though Frodo, Gandalf, and Aragorn all saw that it was inevitable. Though, it would be weird but exceptable if they all had gone into Mordor together. If this had happened it would be very likely that we would never get Gollum as such an important character, reason being that he either continued to sneak around keeping his distance from them, the Fellowship killed him, or they were caught before he had a chance to appear. No matter which of these occured, however, this story would be short.
As I have often said before, and is said often in the books, every slight character and happening affects the outcome of what they are involved in.

And if Boromir was not a main character, Laurelin and I would only have Arwen to make fun of. (Which would not be completely terrible.) [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]