Right now, I don't know the "true purpose" of the fellowship, besides the fact to get the ring to Mount Doom, where it atleast has an oppurtunity of being destroyed. And of course the quest was supposed to fail, or well, was a "desperate task."
The one good thing I saw the Fellowship for however, is it created long lasting friendships. You have the Sam-Frodo friendship, Merry-Pippin, Aragorn-Legolas-Gimli, and then everybody, it all created a lasting friendship between the companions.
For some added info on Boromir, I have read this interesting little discussion topic. But, Boromir took the ring, in thought that it wouldn't corrupt the righteous, it's not that he wanted it for himself (eventhough once he had it he would have taken it for himself). But his thought was it wouldn't be able to corrupt "the righteous" people. And here is a quote from
The Council of Elrond.
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"I do not understand all this" Boromir said "Saruman is a traitor, but did he not have a glimpse of wisdom? Why do you speak ever of hiding and destroying? Why should we not think that the Great Ring has come into our hands to serves us in the very hour of need? Wielding in the FREE LORDS of the FREE may surely defeat the Enemy. That is what he most fears, I deem."
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The "righteous" people I mean are these "free lords" Boromir wishes to give the ring to.