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autistook · 3 months

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March 20th - Faramir meets Éowyn in the Houses of Healing

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theladyeowyn · 10 months

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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) dir. Peter Jackson

#lotredit #tolkienedit #lord of the rings #eowyn x faramir #eowynedit #lotr #eowyn #faramir #lotr gif #*#i was going to go to sleep but i thought of this and immediately lost my entire mind #should i start an eowyn/faramir sideblog yes or no #Éowyn x Faramir #otp: though they did not know it

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gramnel · 9 months

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#they deserved to be happy #lotr #lord of the rings #faramir #eowyn #éowyn #faramir x eowyn #eowyn of rohan #the return of the king #art #artists on tumblr #my art #having fun with different brushes

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xolaanii · 1 year

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ÉOWYN and FARAMIR in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

#lotredit #the lord of the rings #the return of the king #éowyn #faramir #dailyflicks #m: lotr #m: the lord of the rings #c: éowyn #c: faramir #p: mine #mine: lotr #valedits #back on my lotr bullshit #if anyone ever wants to be tagged in movie gifs i'd love to know!

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velvet4510 · 2 months

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The thing about Éowyn giving up being a shieldmaiden is that those who complain about it are entirely missing the point.

What she truly wants is not to specifically fight and kill and kick ass in battle. All those things are representations of her actual desire: to be recognized.

She is constantly being cast aside and forced into the corner and left behind, and she wants to actually leave an impactful mark, a legacy, which the society of Rohan will not permit her to create. She directly tells Aragorn that she wants to do great deeds, and she is most afraid of losing her chance to do anything meaningful with massive ripple effects. She has the very human and very relatable need to be seen and noticed and remembered.

She sees all these warriors achieving glory and becoming the subjects of songs on the battlefield, so she thinks that’s her only way. And she fears that once the war is over, there will be no other way, that it will all go back to the way it was for her.

Then by the end, she learns that’s not true. She can do great deeds and achieve recognition post-war, and she does.

She becomes the Princess of Ithilien, a land decimated by war which means she and Faramir essentially get to start from scratch in rebuilding the land and the society. As Faramir’s equal partner, it is up to her, as much as it is up to him, to make the land beautiful again, to decide how it should be run, to shape it into a thriving place, to eventually mentor the next generation to take proper care of it all. She can introduce horses to the land and teach people to ride. She can teach self-defense because everyone needs to know that kind of stuff. She can do so many things and make so many major decisions for the benefit of so many people who look up to her and need her.

And above all, Éowyn can shape Ithilien to be what Rohan never was to her: a place where all women are seen and heard and respected.

And the best part is, she gets all the freedom and makes all the impact that she has always dreamed of, and yet she doesn’t have to deal with any of her responsibilities alone. While before she had no support in being Théoden’s nurse, and dealt with it all by herself, now she is surrounded by love and encouragement. She’s got Faramir there to always hold her hand. She’s got supportive friends in Aragorn, Arwen, and Merry.

Éowyn giving up being a shieldmaiden and warrior is not the equivalent of abandoning her dream; it is the equivalent of achieving her dream.

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anghraine · 4 months

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I feel like the lighting of the beacons scene is kind of a microcosm of my issues with the LOTR films as a whole, in that:

Cinematically, it's absolutely gorgeous and stirring

The visuals are lifted even further by the score

It's a reference to a thing that is actually in the book, just highly re-contextualized (the beacons exist in the book and have already been lit, but serve a different function; it is the Red Arrow that is used to ask for Théoden's aid, with the specific remark that Denethor is asking for aid and not demanding it; the messenger who brought the arrow is caught and decapitated on his way back to Minas Tirith and so Denethor can't know if the message got out without using the palantír)

The lighting of the beacons in the films is tied into the story they're telling, in which basically all the NPCs other characters are much more self-doubting and self-sabotaging and it's up to Our Heroes to get them to do the right thing or the heroes just do it themselves (see Treebeard, see Théoden, see Faramir...)

Specifically, the necessity of lighting the beacons in the films is a direct byproduct of making film Denethor malicious and incredibly incompetent

The quiet, almost incidental tragedy of the messenger's death in war—not in a big battle, not in any glorious way at all, just this random guy being casually chased down and killed—is lost in favor of something dramatic and show-stopping and cool.

It is dramatic and show-stopping and cool! But sacrifices were definitely made in order to work it into the story at all and I think those sacrifices were very representative of the films' adaptational approach.

#rip to hirgon. and denethor's characterization #anghraine babbles #legendarium blogging #legendarium fanwank #pj critical #denethor #big giving faramir's dream to éowyn as part of a shippy scene with aragorn energy #anghraine rants #hirgon

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camille-lachenille · 10 months

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Aragorn’s elvish name is Estel, high or enduring hope. He’s the personification of hope against all odds in a world slowly falling apart.

Éowyn doesn’t have any estel left in her. She sees hope in the person of Aragorn and tries to catch it, this fleeting glimpse of hope. And when he rejects her, she rides to her death, heart full of despair. Because of this, the Black Breath has a strong hold on her, and Aragorn, estel, brings her from the brink of death.

Faramir too, is under the Black Breath, and he has little reasons to hope. Yet he stil has estel, and he accepts readily Aragorn as his king. He continues to hope when he and Éowyn are almost alone in left behind in Minas Tirith and the world is on the verge of destruction.

And it’s this enduring hope, Faramir’s estel, that Éowyn sees. She accepts his words of comfort because he has estel enough for the two of them and she is beginning to understand for herself, what hope really is. Aragorn was a projection, a personification of everything she didn’t have, but Faramir is her hope.

#tolkien #the lord of the rings #éowyn #faramir #aragorn #estel #hope #tolkien meta #half baked ramblings by a sleep deprived tolkien fan

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kai-janik-art · 7 months

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Éowyn and Faramir - 2023

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#Éowyn #Faramir #Eowyn and Faramir #lord of the rings #Éowyn is definitely one of my favourite characters #Tolkien #lotr fanart #kaijanik

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from-the-coffee-shop-in-edoras · 2 months

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Today in “I Wish I Had Any Artistic Talent”:

So we all love Tolkien’s visual of Faramir and Éowyn holding hands at the walls of Minas Tirith with her in the starry blue mantel and him in his uniform and their blonde and raven hair mingling together, right?

But I just recently looked again at The War of the Ring and, in an early draft, Tolkien had Éowyn cut off her hair before heading to war—he describes it as shorn upon her neck. And I think I might really need a visual in my life of that Farawyn moment exactly as Tolkien described it, except that Faramir’s hair is long and flowing and Éowyn’s is a bob or a pixie cut. I saw a lot of Farawyn art this week because of the date, but I don’t think I’ve ever come across this version?

#lord of the rings #lotr #tolkien #eowyn #éowyn #faramir #farawyn #faramir falling for the only short haired woman in all of Middle Earth #is extremely on brand

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thranduilofsmirkwood · 3 months

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#LOTR memes #aragorn #legolas #thranduil #arwen #denethor #faramir #éowyn #boromir #lord of the rings #théoden #bernard hill #sean bean #miranda otto #david wenham #leepace #mordor #rohan

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meteors-lotr · 8 months

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Characters who really need therapy

The fellowship: All the shit they went through

The Company: All the shit they went through

Faramir: Childhood abuse and neglect

Éowyn: Childhood abuse and anger issues

Éomer: Childhood abuse, and working through his internalized misogyny and homophobia

Gandalf: He died for a minute or three

Galadriel: Anger and control issues

Every other person in middle earth: We almost got invaded and killed by orca

Characters who are actually fine

Elrond and his kids

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autistook · 8 months

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#lord of the rings #lotr #merry #pippin #sam #samwise #frodo #bilbo #gollum #éomer #eomer #eowyn #éowyn #boromir #faramir #gandalf #legolas #gimli #aragorn

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theladyeowyn · 19 days

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“… it would ease my heart, if while the Sun yet shines, I could see you still.”

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oldshrewsburyian · 2 months

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My LOTR reread has brought me to the chapter where Éowyn and Faramir meet/become friends/fall in love. I love them; also JRRT goes so hard; how does he convince me to be super-invested in this relationship in the space of 5 pages? magic.

Anyway! my main point here was going to be: everyone rightly praises how this relationship development reveals Faramir's tenderness, his gentleness, his clear-sighted compassion. All of this is true and worthy of praise. But I believe that perhaps we are overlooking the extremely endearing fact that for all these good qualities, Faramir, Captain of Gondor also has exactly zero chill where Éowyn is concerned.

#lotr emotions #rotk #did i 1) tear up 2) swear violently around a mouthful of toast while reading this chapter this morning? yes. yes i did #also!!! the fact that éowyn only gains MORE confidence in herself over the course of these same 5 pages #as she gradually becomes able to envision the possibility of a future with faramir #so (she says) are you going to be okay if you get teased forever for marrying a 'wild shieldmaiden'? (the answer is yes)#i love her i love them

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borom1r · 3 months

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⚔️ 𝑳𝒐𝒓𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑹𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒎𝒆 𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒔 ⚔️

Behold, an Ongoing Project! 📯

I've been wanting to compile this for a while, instead of frantically scrambling for references every time I sit down to write — I thought it would be fun to share! I'm mostly tackling this from the perspective of a fanfic author, and also as someone who's very into viking era-through-renaissance men's fashion and armor.

I think it's really fun to look at the decisions that were made strategically (to maintain actor mobility, for example), because they looked cool (Faramir's pointless hinged piece on his helmet), or because they were actually period-accurate (gambesons under chainmail, or worn as armor by themselves!). I'm also taking it as a chance to point out what these garments say about their owners!

I say this in the document itself, but there's no need to credit me if you reference/use the doc for your own writing ^_^ this is some of my favorite stuff to discuss, so just getting to share it is cool enough to me.

I'm purely focusing on human characters to start, because of the more solid real-world parallels, but I'm happy to add on to this if there are other characters you'd like to see!!

(@potatoflower7 + @rivers-for-me, tagging you both bc you interacted w/ the posts I made when I was just starting this!)

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haveyoureadthisfanfic · 6 months

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Summary: The battle was over, and Thorin Oakenshield awoke, naked and shivering, in the Halls of his Ancestors. The novelty of being dead fades quickly, and watching over his companions soon fills him with grief and guilt. Oddly, a faint flicker of hope arises in the form of his youngest kinsman, a Dwarf of Durin's line with bright red hair.

Author: @determamfidd

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It's just such a great story. It took me over a month to read because I needed time to ingest the amazing writing and frankly fantastic world build. It did an amazing job to work with and build on the existing cannon and lore while being it's own absolute masterpiece. After I finished it, I sobbed for nearly an hour and had a near 3 week reading slump and I don't regret it for a second.

This fic is so good, it took me a month to finish and it put me in a two and a half week reading slump and I regret nothing except that I hadn't read it sooner

Submitter: @whats-she-gonna-post-next

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