Tumblr crosspost (4 January 2021)

[anghraine]

I’ve posted it before, but I just really love this “my family did the right thing where the kings failed” moment from Faramir in TTT:

“Kings made tombs more splendid than houses of the living, and counted old names in the rolls of their descent dearer than the names of sons. Childless lords sat in aged halls musing on heraldry; in secret chambers withered men compounded strong elixirs, or in high cold towers asked questions of the stars. And the last king of the line of Anárion had no heir. But the stewards were wiser and more fortunate. Wiser, for they recruited the strength of our people from the sturdy folk of the sea-coast…”

RESPECT FOR COASTAL GONDOR

Tagged: #people complain about how this made gondor ~~~impure and he's like ... actually? it is where the strength of our people comes from #and it's how we survived where the lineage-obsessed kings faded away and was totally the right move. #yeppppppp. lebennin rocks and its people are better than you #(also belfalas and the mountaineers of ered nimrais. but especially lebennin) #(the rivers! the green haze! PELARGIR! the 'hardy' people there! YEAH) #(also i think it's very possible that the army aragorn brings to minas tirith is majority lebenninian. TRUE HEROES)

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[chestnut_pod]

So right for that, Faramir.