Boromir and the Ring

[Legolas]

You can't say that, Legolas, you don't know that for sure, and you can't say that what you said would exactly happen.

Oh? Then speculative threads are useless, then, eh? On a speculative thread, every post has a supposed "IMO" in front of it. I can say that, and I did. It was my opinion, and I shared it. You did the exact same thing, and actually said exactly what I meant:

Boromir would eventually succumb to the power of the ring. The ring would eventually abandon him, to get closer to Suaron.

This is what you said previously. Is that *not* what happened to Isildur? I didn't say "Boromir would lead an army of Gondor along the western side of Mirkwood and be attacked by orcs, falling before Thranduil's elves could aid them, leaving only three survivors and the Ring lost in the Anduin." Silly you.

As has been mentioned, there is no real way to compare Boromir's taking the Ring to Isildur.

There certainly is. I'm led to believe the Ring would abandon Boromir just as it did Isildur. It is no more interested in being used by the leaders of Gondor than it is being a heirloom of the Heirs of Isildur. I do think it's possible for Boromir to be taken by the Ring and march right up to Morannon with it, but I think it's more likely that he would lose it sooner before being able to use it. If he had taken the Ring from Frodo upon Amon Hen, he might have even lost it there, encountering the orc band that the Fellowship encountered, should his path cross with theirs. By the Anduin...sounds familiar.

The matter of who could wield the Ring is discussed in plenty of other threads, where I've quoted the statement that Westerly Wizard is speaking of. Please use the search function and post on those threads if anyone wishes to carry on that debate.

[ June 07, 2003: Message edited by: Legolas ]