Tumblr crosspost (21 December 2020)

[anghraine]

Occasionally, I see people defending Éowyn’s swerve from Aragorn to Faramir as a choice of ordinary life rather than dreams of glory, and I get it, and I wouldn’t completely deny that it’s there in some ways, but also, Faramir as representative of the ordinary is kind of hilarious to me?

Faramir: let’s just go grow gardens together thataways :)

*earlier*

Faramir: all this reminds me of the looming darkness when God sunk my ancestral homeland. It haunts my dreams.

Tagged: #*still earlier* gollum's mind is kind of unclear to my vision but i can see that he's lying about a specific location #also he's committed murder #no i'm not going to explain why it physically hurts him to lie to me #sam: you don't remind me of elves so much as ... like. wizards #faramir: thanks! it's that old magic ancestral homeland :) #ajkdjk i do love that he's this nearly peak númenórean type going around with his 24/7 zone of truth and then goes on about flowers #it's the most tolkien(tm) thing