he end, power itself will conquer him. I can relate, in some way, how my own father was like Boromir once. My father used to smoke everyday. When his friends came to the house, he would smoke with them outside in the patio and would not stop smoking until they left. Smoking is something that he has started to do and is something that grew on him. He was not able to stop, even if he wanted to. Power is very obsessive, as it was for Boromir. Here, my father was addicted to smoking cigarettes, and this power of smoking controlled him in almost every way. He might have thought that he would be able to control smoking, as Boromir thought that he could control the power of the ring. I am grateful, though, that he does not smoke any more. Unfortunately, he had to learn it the tough way by suffering a minor heart attack.So, both Gandalf and Galadriel knew what power really was. The ring was something that could have destroyed the whole of Middle Earth. And, no army in the whole of Middle Earth would be able to fight against the evil forces of Sauron. Gandalf even knew that he was no match for Sauron. So, they had to believe in Frodo, a simple hobbit. They had to view power as something that came from inside them. They had no choice but to believe and hope in Frodo and continue to hope that he would make it to the top of Mount Doom. When Gandalf had chosen Frodo to save Middle Earth, he placed a lot of hope in him, believing that he was the only one who could do it. However, as I showed in this essay, Boromir only saw how he himself could gain power. What he did not know was that, once he had power, he would be thirsty for more. And, it would not be just any kind of power but a power to do whatever it would take to maintain his power, like Gandalf’s old friend and wizard Saruman. Tolkien would definitely not approve of Boromir and how he tries to gain power for himself. Frodo Baggins would have to suffer the most to destroy the evil power ...
