#faramir-stan

[hchollym]

I'm a sucker for fantasy costuming. Fave Sansa fit?

Ooh, I've never received a question like this, so this was fun! 😄

I'll admit that I'm not the best with fashion, and I'm sure other people could answer this much better than me, but I'll do my best!

I love the idea of a blue dress (for House Tully) that has a grey fur trim (for House Stark) with snowflakes embroidered on it because of these quotes:

Hullen had helped her mount, and she'd ridden out with the snowflakes swirling around her, off to see the great wide world.

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Drifting snowflakes brushed her face as light as lover's kisses, and melted on her cheeks.

I tried to find a dress that fit that description, but I wasn't able to, so I'll include a few dresses that have some of the characteristics that I imagine instead (the pictures are linked back to their source for credit).

This style dress with this fur trim:

This color blue:

And snowflakes that are similar to this pattern:

Thanks for the ask! 😊

[fineosaur-writes]

Hey bestie! Loving An Empire For Two. Any updates?

hiii tina!!!

i’m so happy you’re liking an empire for two 🥹❤️. it’s one of my favourite fics i’ve written so far and i sometimes worry that i might have gone too niche with the storyline.

i’m more or less done with the next chapter! which has been written since last year, UNFORTUNATELY, despite having the urge to write most days, i’ve been so busy (moving into a new flat + work has been crazy).

i should be updating empire + a few more of my fics in the coming weeks as i’m slowly coming back to all of my work now.

for now, here’s a little snippet of the beginning of chapter six especially for you <3:

chapter six : winter sound

rickon — but my voice is suffocating

Sleep still clouded his mind on that one misty morning. Much like every morning, his brothers and sisters made far too much noise. There were no raised voices to make it loud by any means, it was merely the fact that there were so many of them.

“Rickon, I’d like you to sup with me tonight. The three Mormont ladies will be joining us.”

That had woken him up easy enough. Rickon stared across the table at his oldest brother with his spoon of porridge still midair.

Robb gazed back at him blankly, all the rest of them quiet as they awaited a snarky retort. It never came, Rickon merely rolled his eyes and continued his breakfast.

“Bet you’ll like that,” Bran mumbled at his side.

Rickon glanced at his brother. He hadn’t seen Lyanna since his nameday feast and the kiss they had shared. He brought his fingers to the cut that healed steadily on his neck and anticipation began building.

“I think you should keep your mouth shut,” Rickon warned his older brother.

He was known to be impulsive– telling Bran every sordid detail about his life was one of those impulses he needed to work on controlling.

“Have you seen her since?”

Rickon eyed the rest of his siblings, noting that they were far too involved in their own conversations to care about what he and Bran were whispering about.

“I haven’t,” Rickon answered firmly.

“What will you do?”

Rickon glared at his brother. There was no forgetting how nosey Bran was. He was regardless, grateful to have someone to talk to.

He thought about his brother’s question. “Get drunk,” he said to Bran. “Her sisters will be there, I can’t quite grope her under the table.”

Bran let out a burst of laughter, causing a few stares. Rickon felt his anger start at his brother’s indiscretion.

[fineosaur]

Any updates on Empire For Two?

tina xxx

i was literally reading what i’ve written for chapter 7 last night before bed to refresh my mind and then i saw this ask this morning.

i’ve been working on this update for MONTHs because i’ve not gotten much time to update since i started my new job 4 months ago.

an update is coming soon i promise! if you’d like i can even put up a snippet of your choosing— either a rickon pov or robb pov.

thanks for still giving this fic so much love, there is so so much to come, i have so much more written.

[paintedcrows]

Trick or treat? :3

Treat! Here's some trick or treating twins!! :]

[sotwk]

Statues of Boromir in Minas Tirith

@scyllas-revenge I decided to move our discussion off that poor Pride and Prejudice post before we annoy the folks who just came to look at the pretty gifs and not listen to our unrelated and unhinged Boromir simping. XD

I LOVE YOUR HEADCANONS! Furiously taking notes to fuel the scene going on my head and preparing to shamelessly steal the vibes from the P&P movie scene.

Picturing all the Gondorian maidens gazing wistfully (and not too subtly) at those portraits and statues of the Captain of Gondor! As for the "lone" Faramir statue--joke's on Dad. It was placed exactly where a good portion of his fanbase probably resides, and I'm sure it gets a lot of dreamy-eyed visitors as well.

We're plotting and I love it. I hope whoever reads this post lets it inspire their Boromir (or Faramir!) imaginings too, if they wish.

[anghraine]

Faramir stan discourse under the cut, not even trying to be unbiased

I saw a discussion of the kingship arc in ROTK (the book volume) and GRRM's infamous tax policy quote and how Aragorn's arc sits with modern audiences, and it was interesting, but when people are like "anyway, it's not like Aragorn displaces anyone who could do a better job" I'm practically sitting on my hands to stay out of the immediate online fray.

But I'm just, you know, thinking about the explicitly imperial Gondor of the Fourth Age, and the lines about the Rohirrim and Gondorian armies fighting battles in lands far from Gondor's or Rohan's borders, and meanwhile, there's Faramir in TTT talking wistfully about how he wants Minas Tirith to be "a queen among other queens" rather than to subjugate others.

>_<

[from-the-coffee-shop-in-edoras]

Reblogging to put some respect on Beregond’s name

Talking about my beloved Háma earlier this week got me thinking again about how Beregond is the Háma of Gondor. One of the ways Tolkien showed us how bound together Gondor and Rohan were as countries was by drawing explicit parallels between individual Gondorians and Rohirrim (like Boromir and Théodred), and it happens for everyone's favorite guards, too. They have some differences (I mean, Háma dies 😭), but they’re much more alike than not. 

Most importantly, they’re both soldiers—part of a very hierarchical, duty-bound structure—who nonetheless decide in key moments to disregard orders and follow their own judgment and good sense instead. Háma will let Gandalf violate the ban on weapons in Meduseld and Beregond will leave his post and literally slay anyone facilitating the burning of Faramir because their hearts and minds tell them that sometimes laws must be broken in service of a larger morality. That takes courage, independence of thought, and a strong sense of self. By disobeying, they both knowingly risk punishment—and, indeed, both are punished—but they do it anyway because they know it’s right. And ultimately, both are forgiven and honored because everyone can see they made correct, if unlawful, decisions. (This parallel is also replicated a little further up the respective hierarchies because Éomer and Faramir are also both noted mavericks who choose at pivotal moments to aid members of the Fellowship even though, by law, those outsiders should be arrested or killed. So, again, parallels between pairs of Gondorians and Rohirrim abound!)

I like that Tolkien takes care to show that it’s not just the folks at the very top of communities of Men that can have and display these really admirable and noble traits. It’s important for there to be a Háma and a Beregond so that we know these lands of Men are worth protecting—there is goodness there! And of course it fits very neatly with the “small hands do great deeds” theme of LOTR overall. Háma and Beregond each change the course of history when they trust to their own worth and hold to their own values, no matter the circumstances or consequences.

So that’s the biggest/weightiest parallel for Háma and Beregond, but it’s certainly not the only one. They both work for prestigious military units in the capital city of their countries. They both play formal roles in granting our major characters access to those cities. They’re both firsthand witnesses to the mental manipulation and torment of their leaders (Théoden and Denethor) by an enemy. They both get joyful moments witnessing the healing of a beloved lord. They’re both Gandalf enthusiasts in places where not everyone respects or welcomes Gandalf’s presence. They both demonstrate a willingness to draw swords on anyone they perceive as threatening their lords. They’re both pretty adept at rolling with it when things take a really weird turn (I mean, really, the legendary lost heir of Elendil shows up on Háma’s doorstep claiming to be friends with a mythical elf-sorceress, and he just goes with it. And Beregond has never seen a hobbit before and maybe isn’t even sure they’re real when one is thrust on him, and he immediately makes Pip his buddy!). 

Those are the canon parallels, but I would be remiss if I didn’t finish by specifying that @brigwife and I agree it is rock solid head canon that Háma and Beregond met somehow and became actual long distance best friends. It’s only natural that they’d get along given how much they have in common—just two absolute gems of the race of Men who would totally love and appreciate one another. And I’d like to think that even as Háma’s legacy is commemorated at his resting place in Rohan, there’s also a little memorial for him in Gondor built by Beregond in a beautiful, peaceful part of Ithilien. During Beregond’s lifetime it stands as a tribute to his enduring friendship with Háma, and in later days, when anyone who knew them is gone, it stands instead as a tribute to the enduring friendship of Gondor and Rohan.

[gideonisms]

eowyn should have been a lesbian. Eowyn/faramir is like, fine, but it misses the point of eowyn for all baby dyke eowyn stans which is not that she longs for glory in battle and doesn't realize war is ugly and brutal, but that she's caught between two awful options and she doesn't want to be given one based on her gender. She's not in love with aragorn, she envies him because she finds the tasks he has in life more preferable and she hero worships him. Is this the point Tolkien was trying to make? Well, no,

[charlotte-is-s1ck]

hanging on by a thread, so here’s some random headcanons

- i’m happy about éowyn and faramir, love them, but tbh i headcanon merry had the fattest mf crush on éowyn.

- frodo: pink floyd, sam: simon and garfunkle, pippin: the beatles, merry: david bowie. i don’t make the rules.

- legolas has a bag of holding for all of his hair and skin products (and tries to get aragorn and gimli in on it, randomly walking up to them and smearing the elven equivalent to moisturizer on their faces like ‘girl how you gonna show up to your own coronation lookin all crusty musty. lemme help you.’)

- pippin is so down for letting you put him in drag. he would love it.

- merry would be obsessed w legos

- everyone in the fellowship would absolutely flip out if you introduced them to chewing gum. hang on. lemme cook: frodo: peppermint, sam: pink lemonade, pippin: grape/watermelon, merry: bubble gum, legolas: sweet mint, aragorn: spearmint, gimli: the raspberry lime one, and gandalf: cinnamon. again, i do not make the rules.

- gandalf is the world’s biggest samfro stan (other than me)

- since beetlejuice can’t get sick bc he’s a demon, he will absolutely use the opportunity of lydia getting sick and having to stay home to just lay at the foot of her bed and rant to her about all his problems while they do nails together. if she’s faking sick it won’t be for long. he’s fun but she can only put up with it for about a day.

- logan howlett in another universe was undoubtedly a folk music singer.

[imaybeabear]

In this house we stan Boromir, brother of Faramir and Captain of Gondor!!!!

[imasorenson]

what the fablehaven crew is wearing for halloween :

kendra and warren are doing a matching costume : they’re going as barbie and ken, warren is really invested and he keeps saying every lines ken said in the movie, kendra is laughing the whole night and she’s of course slaying the pink

seth convinced bracken to do a matching costume with him, bracken still doesn’t really understand halloween so he accepted : they’re going as lord of the rings characters and seth is very much hyped. seth will be pippin the hobbit and bracken will go as faramir, he actually watched lord of the rings and loved faramir so he’s very much happy with that costume

vanessa is wearing a bella swann costume because her and kendra recently watched the twilight movies and warren tought it was the funniest costume she could wear, she didn’t haven anything else planned so she went with it

stan and ruth are also wearing a matching costume of dumbledore and professor mcgonagall, they’re very proud of their costumes because they actually made everything themselves this year (it looks very cool)

tanu is going as doctor strange since he’s his favorite avenger and he went all in, he has the cape and everything

mara and trask didn’t really want to dress up so they decided to match together, they’re going as lara croft and indiana jones, so they’re literally wearing clothes they would wear on a mission, but turns out their costumes are amazing regardless

dale is literally just going as stan and everyone couldn’t stop laughing when they figured out his costume

[brethilach]

i cant formulate words rn but i want you to know that ever since you sent me that one reply about merry and his fear of being left behind you’ve enlightened me. opened my eyes to the beautiful truth of complex character design lying just below my nose. he’s like my favorite character now and i think about him and what you said all the time. how could you do this to me (positive). thank you. im sorry if this weird but i needed to you to know that its your fault (in a good way) that im a merry stan now

No don't be sorry at all!! Merry is one of my favorite characters too and I think there's so much more to be said about him (like how the position he is put in with Eowyn can retroactively represent a lot of marginalized men and how often they really don't get treated like Real men or provided the same "male privilege" that men normally would be—though I doubt this was Tolkien's intent, or at least not in the way I'm imagining it)

But I think Merry gets ignored by the fandom a lot because some people don't understand his character and just lump him in with Pippin (whether because they haven't read the books or some other reason). Nothing in the books would've happened if Merry hadn't bothered to look deeper into Frodo's business and was SO adamant about not leaving his side. Not letting him go to Rivendell alone. without HIM. Not Pippin, not Fatry, not even Sam (because, believe it or not, in the books he actually Wasn't very close to Frodo until they started to truly get to know eachother in Rivendell, away from the constraints of their class barrier in the Shire). MERRY didn't want to be left behind. I mean this aspect of character and his development comes to its crux when everyone marches to the Black Gate and he resigns to accept the role he has played and waits in the Houses of Healing with Eowyn and Faramir, but in the movies that literally just DOESN'T HAPPEN. He's just suddenly Better and goes with Pippin anyway (another way the movies reduced his character).

I didn't think that my LOTR character opinions impacted anyone so much but I'm very glad they have :) reading this genuinely made me so happy. thank you!!

[wardrobeoftime]

Outlander + Costumes

Mary Hawkins’ purpleish blue & white dress in Season 02, Episode 02.

// requested by @faramir-stan

[edennill]

why do people in this fandom feel like if they stan boromir they have to drag faramir and if they like faramir they have to demonise aragorn? like they're all amazing actually. why

[catholickedd]

this is a faramir stan blog now. all my mutuals love faramir

[sotwk]

I personally think Minas Tirith could benefit from a statue or two of Boromir. I mean a tourist attraction, a little pick-me-up on the way to work in the morning, I think it could be really helpful

YES. ALL THE STATUES!!! Artists all over the Gondor were probably in brutal competition over who gets to sculpt/paint that glorious visage.

Side note: Pre-Aragron there were probably no statues of Faramir (or maybe 1 artwork for every 10 of Boromir), but let's just be happy for Boromir and not go there right now.