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This was for a meme!

ygrittebardots on Tumblr asked:

September: share a comment or review which still warms your heart?

I said:
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In response to this, moggett on Tumblr said:

I still love those Faramir in Rivendell stories!

I replied:

Aw, thank you! I’d definitely do a lot differently if I were writing them now, but they were very important to me and a lot of fun. I didn’t think anyone still read them!

(LOL, I added in the tags: #i just had the horrifying realization that i have followers younger than those fics)

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LOTR wank

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Speaking of my Denethor and Faramir feelings, sometimes I just wonder about how Faramir finds out that Denethor is dead.

Does someone tell him right off the bat?

When does he first hear himself spoken of as the Steward? Is that how he discovers it? Maybe he just wakes to hearing how fares the Steward? and thinks they’re talking about Denethor, but gradually pieces together the clues that it’s actually him.

What does he feel when he first hears the Steward Faramir?

When does he hear about the full horror of Denethor’s death? How does he think about it?

He goes from grief to near death to instant devotion to Aragorn. He was almost killed in a murder-suicide. He’s now ruler of Gondor. He’s not alone in the world—he has extended family, his people love him—but in another way, he is. His brother is dead, his father is dead. And then he turns around and falls in love.

What is all that even like?

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I’m also just thinking … what if Denethor’s moment of sense when he cries “do not take my son from me!” (;_;) lasted???

He wouldn’t die, and he’d probably be at Faramir’s side when Aragorn showed up in the Houses of Healing. I imagine that Aragorn would have Denethor call Faramir the way he has Éomer call Éowyn, but of course there would necessarily still be some element of the Mystical Healing.

How would the healing affect Denethor’s antipathy towards Aragorn? How would Faramir’s instant devotion to yet another person whom Denethor resents? How would Faramir react to some level of reconciliation with Denethor on one side and his experience of Aragorn on the other?

What iffffff

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On Denethor:

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I found a long-haired Faramir icon (eta: not this one) to use for my Stewardist sideblog, and my soul knows peace.

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I love my otp a lot

“And here in the wild I have you: two halflings, and a host of men at my call, and the Ring of Rings. A pretty stroke of fortune! A chance for Faramir, Captain of Gondor, to show his quality! Ha!” He stood up, very tall and stern, his grey eyes glinting.

Frodo and Sam sprang from their stools and set themselves side by side with their backs to the wall, fumbling for their sword-hilts. There was a silence. All the men in the cave stopped talking and looked towards them in wonder. But Faramir sat down again in his chair and began to laugh

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“Come not between the Nazgûl and his prey! Or he will not slay thee in thy turn. He will bear thee away to the houses of lamentation, beyond all darkness, where thy flesh shall be devoured, and thy shrivelled mind be left naked to the Lidless eye.”

A sword rang as it was drawn. “Do what you will; but I will hinder it, if I may.”

“Hinder me? Thou fool. No living man may hinder me!”

Then Merry heard of all sounds in that hour the strangest. It seemed that Dernhelm laughed

The eldritch evils that have wrecked entire civilizations are like: FEAR ME!!!

Faramir and Éowyn: l o l

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(And that's June!)

Random headcanon:

Morwen passed down traditional Gondorian stories to her children and grandchildren, so Éowyn already knows parts of the Silmarillion before she sets foot in Gondor.

It’s only parts, of course. For one, she’s had considerably more pressing matters to think about than tales she heard as a child, and she has the stories of her own people to remember, anyway. The ride of Eorl the Young is vastly more significant to her than anything to do with the Silmarillion.

And for another, she was … well, a child, so the version she got was strictly editorialized by Morwen/Théodwyn/Théoden to appeal to a little girl of the Eorlingas (e.g., strongly skewed towards Edain and pared-down).

Even so, she heard enough from the Silmarillion to often be “oh, I remember that” when people expect the tales to be completely new to her and to contextualize the fuller versions she hears in Gondor. Either way, it’s nice to hear both the tales she never knew and the ones she remembers—as stories, and as points of connection to Morwen.