Boromir shows contrition for his sin a few moments after he has committed it. Having cursed Frodo and all hobbits “to death and darkness,” he catches his foot on a stone and falls headlong to the ground, “as if his own curse had struck him down,” and then, weeping, rises to his feet and begs Frodo to return, lamenting the “madness” that had overtaken him.6 Shortly afterward, in an act of love which, in the words of Christ, there is no greater, he lays down his life for his friends, becoming mortally wounded in his efforts to defend the hobbits. After Aragorn discovers Boromir, pierced with
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