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Showing posts with label Faramir. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Faramir. Show all posts
30 October 2022

Faramir and the Shards of Boromir's Horn

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Quite a while back I came to the conclusion that Faramir doesn't actually see Boromir's funeral boat, as he is convinced he does, bu...
15 September 2021

Fear, Desire, and 'The Ring is mine.'

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  The Ring plays on fear as much as desire. To be sure Boromir and Denethor desire to save Gondor, but both share a desperate fear that they...
05 December 2020

The Shortsightedness of Denethor

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Compare the following passages, the first Denethor's words, the second Faramir's.  'I will go now to my pyre. To my pyre! No tom...
17 August 2019

First Steps into Ithilien (TT 4.iv.648-52)

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Another excerpt from To Rule the Fate of Many: Truth, Lies, Pity, and the Ring of Power , a much longer work I am writing at present. ...
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17 April 2017

Stephen C. Winter -- Three Posts on The Houses of Healing

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I just love how in these three posts Stephen C. Winter notes the difference of the fragrance of the athelas for each of the characters and b...
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08 January 2017

No Laughing Matter: the Ring and the Quality of the Dúnedain

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'We know the Ring is no laughing-matter; but we are going to do our best to help you against the Enemy,' says Merry to Frodo ...
01 December 2015

Abraham, Wilfred, and John at the Pyre of Denethor (RK 5.vii.850-57)

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The Parable of the Young Man and the Old So Abram rose, and clave the wood, and went, And took the fire with him, and a knife. And as the...
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