Boromir

Boromir son of Denethor was a man of Gondor who was the son of the current Steward of Gondor. He was the eldest child, having only one brother Faramir, and so would have taken over as Steward after Denethor's death. However, he was slain by Orcs during the Quest of the Ring on the shores of Anduin. He fell defending the two hobbits Merry and Pippin, two members of the Fellowship of the Ring. Aragorn, Legolas, and Boromir laid him to rest inside one of the boats of Lorien, and sent him down the falls of Rauros.

Boromir is depicted in LOTR as a valiant warrior, having already achieved great merit in Gondor. He was sent to Rivendell to decipher a cryptic rhyme that both he and his younger brother heard in their dreams:

 Seek for the Sword that was broken, In Imaldris it dwells, There shall be counsels taken, Stronger than Morgul-spells. There shall be shown a token, That Doom is near at hand, For Isildur's Bane shall waken, An the Halfling forth shall stand.

Denethor counselled Boromir to journey to Imaldris (Rivendell) to seek the meaning of these words. And so he went - and became greatly involved in the Quest of the Ring, as a member of the Fellowship.

Before he died, he became allured by the One Ring that Frodo held, and attempted to seize it from him. It can be said that he paid the price of his life for such a deed.

Nonetheless he perished in honour, while protecting the Company, and he was laid in Anduin to float down to Rauros falls, and though rumour came to his near kindred of his death, and the horn that he bore came back to Denethor, his body was laid in Rauros, and there he remained ever after.