Ayashi Tetsuko

Faramir and Eowyn, two damaged souls that found each other ♥ they are too cute for words (or at least tolkien is much better at words than i will ever be)

'Then I must leave my own people, man of Gondor?' she said. 'And would you have your proud folk say of you: "There goes a lord who tamed a wild shieldmaiden of the North! Was there no woman of the race of Numenor to choose?" 'I would,' said Faramir. And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.

Faramir was the sex symbol of LotR when the movies came out.

'What am I talking about?' you may ask. ‘Aragorn is sexy one, he’s ‘insert Aragorn praise here’’. Oh you sweet, sweet children and Americans, let me explain.

Long ago, in the 90's, there was a little TV show called Sea Change. It was an Australian show, and it had the country in a choke hold. A big part of that was Daniel 'Diver Dan' Della Bosca, played by David Wenham. No, I am not joking.

David Wenham was literally the Sexiest Man Alive, as voted by the Australian public. Women wanted him, men wanted to be him, and if you ask people today, there is a non-insignificant population who will still tell you that that man is hotter than the Bitumen in summer with no shoes on. The current landscape of media means that many young folks haven't been exposed to him the way millennial's were, but trust me.

So, when David Wenham walks on screen, with that lovely long hair, the rugged, scruffy little beard, and the sad little eyes, it was the sexiest thing the Australian public had ever seen. Him swinging around a sword and getting all sweaty on screen, then having a soft and tender romance with Eowyn, was the ultimate, wish fulfilment, self insert projection fantasy.

There are people who watched LotR solely because David Wenham was in it.

"Éowyn was slender and tall, with a grace and pride that came to her out of the South from Morwen of Lossarnach, whom the Rohirrim had called Steelsheen."

(Appendix A "The House of Eorl")

Éowyn with Shadowfax in the lush meadows of Rohan @megarywrites @sotwk :)

FARAMIR & ÉOWYN

"And so they stood on the walls of the City of Gondor, and a great wind rose and blew, and their hair, raven and golden, streamed out mingling in the air."

latest finished commission, where i had the opportunity to go with my own vision of the characters, and here's what i landed on... they may look like squares but i know they freak4freak in their hearts etc.

Faramir gives Éowyn a ring with a sea-blue gem of Dol Amroth that belonged once to his mother Finduilas. It is a strange jewel that shifts in color depending on the nature of light that it reflects. In bright sunlight it shines greenish turquoise, like the clear water below the quays of Dol Amroth in summer. In cloudy weather it becomes silver-gray as the sea in a storm, and in candlelight it looks almost purple, in the way that the ocean reflects the violet shades of coming night.

Faramir gives this ring to his bride-to-be out of love for his mother and her people and as a symbol of renewal of the joy of his house. Yet to Éowyn it takes on different meaning: child of the plains she knows little of the moods of the sea, and instead to her the stone is one of air and wind and sky. All her life she has stared upward at it, wide and arcing. She knows its patterns and habits. When the gem sparkles bright blue in the sunlight, she knows that it is the color of a peaceful clear morning, or of a warm afternoon of light wind and endless possibility.

When the gem desaturates of color, she understands it to have taken on that pewter hue of building storms, and in candlelight the gem sparkles with the violet of last light, of night rising like a wave or a wall and marching steadily over the open lands of the Mark.

They might actually be my favorite pair of brothers out there! Faramir, of course, is dressed in his ranger attire and Boromir in his armor.