5. Boromir - The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring
New Line Cinema
The Line: "I would have followed you, my brother... my captain... my king."
How He Dies: Boromir (Sean Bean) dies trying to redeem himself for attempting to take the Ring from Frodo (Elijah Wood) earlier in the movie. That and the fact he's Sean Bean, which pretty much makes him contractually obliged to die. Boromir tries to help Merry (Dominic Monaghan) and Pippin (Billy Boyd) escape from an Uruk-Hai attack, but ends up being riddled with arrows by the tribe's leader, Lurtz. Before Lurtz can finish the job with one last arrow, Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen) intervenes and kills Lurtz, but sadly, it's too late. Boromir expresses fear over the future of their world as he slowly dies, and Aragorn assures him that he will make it right. Boromir lets out his final words and peacefully expires as Gimli (John Rhys-Davies) and Legolas (Orlando Bloom) mournfully look on. It's a suitably epic death for a great character, and amounts to one of the more emotional moments in Peter Jackson's Rings trilogy.