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Wayne.

Hopper

 

First of all: Teft is sadder than Wayne

Wayne died at the end of the story. His death was a heroic sacrifice to save the day. Hell, he spoke to God right after and learned that he had successfully saved the city. He died without regrets, and he left a better world behind.

Teft, however, did not see Urithiru saved. He did not know that his friends would be fine. Wayne's death was heroic, while Teft's was tragic.

But they ain't got nothing on Boromir.

first of all: Boromir wasn't called by Elrond to join the Fellowship. He had received a riddle in a dream that spoke of Isildur's Heir, the Blade that was Broken, and... a Halfling, whatever that was. During his journey he lost his horse and traveled most of the way on foot (which isn't relevant, but just cements him as a Gigachad).

When he arrived and joined the Fellowship, it was of his own free will. Note that he really wanted to take the Ring and have Gondor wield it in their battle against Mordor, but when the rest of the Council decided to destroy it he conceded and joined anyway. Boromir loved Gondor; he loved the people of Gondor, he loved the White City, and he had fought time and again to defend it. To him, the best way to defeat Mordor was to use the Ring against them, but he had faith in the choice Frodo had made that this one hope could do all the same and more.

At Parth Galen - the place of the Breaking of the Fellowship - Boromir did not try to wrest the Ring from Frodo's grasp; at least, not right away. The movies made it seem like he was only a few turning points away from attacking the hobbit (which I don't disapprove of, btw), but in the books Tolkien goes out of his way to describe Boromir as reasoning with Frodo. Boromir went to lengths describing how he could command his armies with the Ring, building great fortifications and preparing grand strategies to destroy Mordor; and it's clear that he's steadily regressing away from his original decision, but at no point did the Ring turn him evil (though he says himself that for a moment it had thrown him to madness).

Allow me to explain: they had lost Gandalf to Moria. They had lost Rohan to Isengard. "It is by our own folly that the Enemy will defeat us," he said, because now this faith seemed more like foolishness than hope. The Quest was going to fail, and surely to carry the Ring for a little while would not corrupt him. He beseeched Frodo to come to Minas Tirith, and there to allow him the Ring for a time. "I give you my word that I do not desire to keep it," because of course he believes that. 

When he died, it wasn't just defending Merry and Pippin. Boromir was defeated by the orcs, and watched them carry the hobbits away. The last he had seen of Frodo was when he fled in fear; the last he had seen of Merry and Pippin was when they being taken by the Enemy. He would never know that Samwise and Frodo would carry the Ring to Mordor and defeat the evil once and for all; he would never know that Rohan and Gondor and all the kingdoms of Men would be saved.

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"I tried to take the Ring from Frodo. I am sorry. I have paid. They have gone: the Halfling: the Orcs have taken them. I think they are not dead. Orcs bound them.

"Farewell, Aragorn! Go to Minas Tirith and save my people! I have failed."

 

Those were his last words.