An Introduction to the Latest Literary
{Blank} Series.
I got this idea off Hayden’s
blog. She had posts of her literary heroes and heroines . . . and
I’ve made it into a series including my
favorite book heroes, heroines, villains, and “facepalms.” This
series should appear on this blog at least once a month. Oh, and by
the way . . . these characters will have been involved in the
last book I read (which was The Lord of the Rings by
J.R.R. Tolkien).
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Faramir is the son of Denethor,
Steward of Gondor. While he doesn’t appear in The Lord of the Rings
until The Two Towers: Book Four,
his story penetrates the line of his brother Boromir (the rash,
handsome, ever-obedient elder son) by the time Tolkien reaches The Fellowship of the Ring: Book Two.
With Boromir’s death, Faramir is catapulted into grief and the
future stewardship of Gondor—but his father’s constant comparison
of him to his older brother seems to serve for more sorrow than even
Boromir’s death. He’s the kind man who deserves so much yet often
receives so little because he’s not as “flashy” as someone else
in his family.
Faramir
has to be one of my favorite characters in The Lord of the Rings.
We aren’t always with him, which makes him more intriguing; he
carries “baggage” as my sister Hallie would say; and he suffers.
For some reason I’m very attracted to the suffering male character.
Maybe part of it, too, is because his relationship with Denethor is
very real: familial relationships don’t usually get much thought with
Tolkien.
Then
there’s his romance with Éowyn:
yet another of my favorite parts. Éowyn
is the feisty niece of Théoden
King of Rohan, who goes to fight for Minas Tirith though she is a
woman. Éowyn
deserves a whole character sketch herself, so I won’t go into
detail of her here. I know that many people call her a feminist, and
while I don’t personally commend all of her actions, I don’t find
her “unmaidenly”—actually the contrary. Anyway, that romance is
another topic for discussion, since I’m supposed to be focusing on
Faramir. His persistence with her is admirable, even when he knows
she wants to marry another man. “Éowyn,
do you not love me, or will you not?”
The
advice I glean for writers from Faramir:
Don’t hesitate to make character relationships bad, even to the
point of huge mental pain.
FARAMIR IS MY FAVORITE!!!!! You should do these, like, every day.
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