# Boromir leaves the Fellowship rather than betray Frodo. What happens?

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**Created:** [July 18, 2011, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boromir-leaves-the-fellowship-rather-than-betray-frodo-what-happens/589518 "2011-07-18T23:44:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boromir-leaves-the-fellowship-rather-than-betray-frodo-what-happens/589518/21 "2011-07-19T23:06:19Z")

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> [@D18](#):
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> Whatever.
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> What’s really important is did you ever find naked pictures of Grace Kelly?

Of course. It wasn’t even hard. There are these things called _showers_ and _hidden cameras_.

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**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boromir-leaves-the-fellowship-rather-than-betray-frodo-what-happens/589518/22 "2011-07-19T23:12:50Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> I doubt Galadriel would have even let Boromir leave Lothlorien, for fear he’d yield to temptation, follow the Fellowship and attempt to grab the Ring, or would go back to Minas Tirith, tell ol’ Dad what happened and thus lead to cavalry setting forth from Gondor to seize the alluring band of gold.

Um, yes…but so what? If Boromir has confessed his temptation, understood the disastrous implications, and declared that he’s leaving the Fellowship, that is what he WANTS to happen.

I thought that was implicit in the OP but maybe not.

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> More likely she’d disarm Boromir and place him under pleasant but no less confining “house arrest” until the result of Frodo’s quest was known. His absence would have made little difference to later events with the Fellowship, I suspect. The Uruk-hai were still likely to catch up with the Fellowship at Amon Hen or thereabouts, and Frodo was still likely to make the same despairing calculations and to strike off on his own towards Mordor, with Sam following. Denethor would be marginally more polite to Gandalf and Pippin, having not learned of Boromir’s death, but not so much that it would change the course of events.

I don’t think the house arrest need last as long as you’re imagining. It’d be better to hold him back a week or so after the [del]Eight[/del] Seven Walkers leave and then given him some elves to assist him as he makes his way back home. And that would be genuine, not euphemistic, assistance, as he’s demonstrated his probity already.

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**Author:** ![The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Peyote_Coyote)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boromir-leaves-the-fellowship-rather-than-betray-frodo-what-happens/589518/23 "2011-07-19T23:17:01Z")

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Chronos: The Fellowship would not have gone on all to Mordor at once. At the end of FoTR, Aragon mentioned that his plan was for Frodo, Sam, Gimli, and himself to go to Mordort while everyone else headed for Gondor.

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