Also known as: Son Of Denethor, Captain Of The White Tower
Boromir, elder son of Denethor II and brother of Faramir, was the High Warden of the White Tower and the most renowned captain of Gondor in his day -- tall, valiant, and proud, beloved of his soldiers and his people, and the heir his father loved best. When a riddling dream came often to Faramir and once to him, speaking of the Sword that was Broken, of Isildur's Bane, and of a Halfling, Boromir claimed the perilous errand for himself and journeyed many months to Rivendell to seek its meaning. There at the Council of Elrond he learned the truth of the One Ring, and joined the Fellowship as the representative of Gondor.
Yet the Ring worked slowly upon his pride and his love of his city, until he came to believe it might be wielded as a weapon to save Gondor from the Shadow. At Amon Hen the desire overcame him, and he tried to take the Ring from Frodo by force -- the act that drove Frodo to go on alone and broke the Fellowship. Boromir repented at once, and redeemed his fall with his life: he died defending Merry and Pippin against a host of Saruman's Uruk-hai, slaying many and falling pierced with arrows. With his last breath he confessed his failure to Aragorn and named him his king and the hope of Gondor; and Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli laid his body with his weapons and the horns of his foes in an Elven boat and sent him over the Falls of Rauros, where Faramir, far down the river, beheld the funeral boat pass shining by.