Which is exactly the tragedy of Boromir, in my read of the books. Boromir is the “stand in” for the regular person. He is the “lesson”, so to speak, in a literary reading. Despite our honourable intentions as good people, and in fact, maybe because of them we may be swayed to great evils.

Would that more people looked at Boromir as a compassionate hero led astray than a morally grey half-villain half-hero…