Every single member of the fellowship would have turned against Frodo at one point. It's what he realized after Boromir and why he decided to leave them. Recall, he also saw it in the water with Galadriel.

Boromir was the first to be corrupted because he was the most desperate. The others didn't have homelands that were under siege yet.

Imagine being the leader and hero of your people, groomed from the day you were born to lead and protect. You're fighting a losing war against an enemy that will brutally slaughter every Man and child they come across. You are about to lose the last line of defense in Osgiliath and your once great father is quickly losing hope, and his mind.

In a final desperate attempt you ride West to seek aid from an old ally that has set its sight on leaving you behind to an inevitable doom.

Once there, you stumble upon your one and only chance to save your people, but to your dismay the secluded people that you have protected with your people's blood for centuries refuses to give this weapon. Instead they are sending the weapon with some "children" who have never seen war on a suicide mission that everyone believes will fail.

For weeks on end as you trek through hostile land while an impossibly powerful corrupting force is slowly tearing down your mind, reminding you of your people's struggles and telling you how it alone can give you the power to save them, and the world.

And then disaster happens and the leader of the suicide mission and the only one who could lead the way dies and you're left directionless. Finally you break and try to take the weapon needed to save your people.

How are you a bad person in this scenario?

The wisest angel in the world didn't even dare to touch the object in fear of its corrupting power. The most powerful elf on Middle-Earth earned back her spot in heaven by resisting its influence once. Boromir was the only human in the group, and the one most weary and desperate by the war, the perfect target for the ring.

Boromir was a great man, but unlike the rest of the fellowship he was also human, and with that come flaws. Your characterisation of Boromir is of him under the influence of the one ring, which is unfair. Free of the ring's influence we see him as a selfless hero willing to give his life to protect the hobbits from harm.

It's a shame this scene never made it to short edition of the films.

Mortal men cannot long resist the influence of the Ring at such close proximity. Replace Boromir with any other human, dwarf, or elf, and some member of the Fellowship would still have turned on the ring-bearer by the end.

Hobbits are more resilient, but with long enough exposure even they can be swayed. It was only a matter of time.

Boromir is a desperate man. Gondor is getting its ass kicked, and losing the war. His actions are consistent with that.

No that’s a pretty common view.

I mean, that was essentially the point of Boromir's death: the allure of the Ring corrupted him and he became an example for the Fellowship (and the reader) for the insidious power of the One Ring.

The movies gave him a much more pronounced Forlorn Hope scene but Boromir is really meant to embody why it had to be one the most unlikely creatures to succeed.

I've never read the books. But it's hard not to feel bad every time seen been's character gets killed off.

He did, and that's why the movies did Faramir dirty. Faramir was supposed to be better than his brother, the movies made him just the same. :(

upvote from me. boromir did redeem himself as the ring is a corrupting influence. Its a fantasy world so morality is not just a construct of emerging sentience. Its a world with actual metaphysical things like magic that can actually do things like mind control. Its more limited than high fantasy but its a thing that exists in the world. Not just some belief passed around.

OP couldn't last three minutes with the ring.

I never got why people were so attached to him. Sure, he had reason to literally be the weakest link in the party, being desperate and all, but they also only gave him like two scenes where he comes across as a likeable guy, and one of them wasn't even in the theatrical cut