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Old 01-04-2014, 05:47 PM   #2
Legate of Amon Lanc
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Hi Arathorn111, and welcome to the 'Downs.

I would say, in many ways, yes, Boromir is representing an "average" man, even though he was not really "average" man, because after all, he is from one of the most noble families in Gondor. He is more a Dúnadan than most. But his choices are representing that what in Lord of the Rings really means "normal Men" or "the weakness of Men" - the reason why most Men (or even other races) are most often corrupted in Middle-Earth. He is not the kind of hero who would resist the temptation of power offered by the Ring (there are really few such people in Middle-Earth and also in the real world, in fact, the ones who seem to be resistant to it - at least for a while - are the Hobbits, the simple folk who are content with the little they have), but he is still not an "average" man because he is a hero who is a fighter, who stands against the odds, who does not give up hope and who also redeems himself in a self-sacrificial battle to protect Merry and Pippin. So the answer is yes and no, but I assume that from the point of view where you are asking - if I understood it correctly- the answer is yes.
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