Faramir Fiction Archive

Hehe, so do I… I wonder how he would interact with a kid; whether he´d rather play good grandad with sweets in every pocket or pretend to be Mr. Grumpy. ;)

Thanks for the nice comment! Feedback is the unexpected piece of chocolate in my weekday lembas bread! :)

Thank you so much! :D And yes, I guess you´re right. While drawing it I suddenly realized that automatically every child-sized person in this surrounding must be taken for a hobbit – especially Pippin since he´s clad in a Gondorian armour. Tricky thing, actually I was a bit angry with myself because it didn´t came to me before but I´m glad it still works!

Dude! Such a long and wonderful comment! It deserves to be woven into a tapestry and outlast the ages in the Great Hall of a royal court! I´m flattered, delighted and speechless at the same time! To learn that you… you found yourself inspired by ME? Now I DO believe in fairies/the Valar/ The Great God Om! This is… it gave me such a rush of pride and happiness I spent the day running around with a huge silly ear-to-ear grin.

Why yes, of course I read your fic! Such an honour, how could I not? And I must say I found myself in, well, maybe not a deja-vu but definitely a fantastic coincidence. When Gandalf goes “Don´t call me my lord!” I had to check the intro I´ve written back then because IT WAS EXACTLY THE WAY I FIGURED IT! And not only that. Your fic gave me the rare experience of walking through my own picture. Little Faramir being all shy and hesitating yet already revealing a certain dignity I can see in the grown-up version. I mean, he admonishes Gandalf – Gandalf! – because of the candles! His love for books and his remarks about librarians – I couldn´t help thinking of the Discworld librarian here. :) The slightly playful and yet very Tolkien-like style reminding me of the scenes between Bilbo and Gandalf in The Hobbit – Great Elephants – haha! :D – that ´s priceless! And all the time I COULD HEAR THEIR VOICES. I heard them both speaking and it sounded as it was meant to be, as if that was exactly how it was

I still can´t believe this has happened – and have I mentioned you are such a skillful writer with a great sense for undertones? Thinking that perhaps I´d never known about it – bless me, it MUST have been the Valar who guided you. Thank you, thank you so much!

Oh Lord, yes, Pippin and an accident waiting to happen… When the library of Alexandria burnt down there must have been a Took around! XD

I say, you described this lonely child much better that I could ever do. :) I imagined him kinda enveloped by an aura of profound sadness, even if I don´t think he would complain much. It´s terrifying to see how much children are willing to accept if they don´t get a chance for comparison and grow up believing this is just the way it has to be.

Ah, Watson, that´s an interesting point regarding the hair! Indeed, now you´ve mentioned it I think that Frodo and Sam have a rather modern haircut (I´m not sure about it yet I got the feeling that if a movie is set in a medieval/historical surrounding they try to subtly adapt the leading character´s look to modern taste. For better identification, I presume). And Boromir… why yes, his hairdo must have looked unusual for the Hobbits! I´m not sure whether it is the length or maybe the fact that his hair is straight whereas Tolkien described Hobbit hair as rather wooly. And what you said about the hairdo of children in the Middle Ages brought back something else: Once I read that in earlier times it was customary to dress up little boys the same way as the girls until they had reach a certain age (which was, I believe, 6 or 7). Apparently this convention lasted a very long time; I remember a few weeks ago I´ve seen a photograph of some famous male person who was born in the 19. or maybe late 18. century (I just can´t for life remember who it was). The picture showed a littly boy with short hair wearing a dress. So maybe this was a practical solution for Middle Earth as well..? ;)

I cannot help noticing your comments are dangerous… they click all my buttons and make me happily ramble along. I beg your pardon for this and say thank you for the great feedback! :)

More Faramir kids? Uh-uh, now you give me a push into a certain direction… though I could easily give the same one back to you! A shy but charming black-haired boy – whereas I could care for the ginger/blond variation. ;)

Hmm… I think I know what you mean about Gandalf. The other day I had the same experience when I looked at him and thought, “My, who is it you remind me of?” Actually I had no special model, only a vague kind of “wise old man” prototype. I think there are some characters, like Gandalf or Frodo or Gollum, whose faces don´t have to be very accurate because they are in large part defined by a number of props. You know, small male figure with bare hairy feet, hood and cloak, ring on a necklace – hey, must be Frodo! Pointed hat, staff, long beard and long grey gown – no doubt, it´s Gandalf! You don´t even need to add the features of Sir Ian McKellen; everybody would just recognize Gandalf. Whereas Faramir, for example, is more difficult, especially because they book and the movie version differ so much.

Unfortunately I wasn´t able to find the baby Faramir picture by Amir – but yes, I know that marvellous picture of Boromir in the nude! :D Oh, and there are also some Boro/Faramir comics drawn by Karina Chmiel in which little Faramir is clothed in exactly that kind of all-purpose garment we discussed. And Theodred is wearing a literal dress – what Boromir, the nasty brat, is making fun about. Dude, those lady is such a genius!
(I assume you already know these works. Meanwhile I have become very careful in regard of sending people links. Mostly I´m the last one to detect something and when I´m running around the village banging my drum the common reaction is a mild “Come ooooon, we know that. Everybody´s known that for years!”)

Are you sure there IS no Ent hiding in the kid´s wardrobe? After all it´s New Zealand, right? And which place on Earth would be more likey (well, maybe except of Tasmania)? Have you ever checked your little one´s drawings for some suspicious “secret friends” grown-ups are not able to see? Just asking… ;)