Lost them! Lost them! Lindil, Lindil, you should have gone silently on and on right into geezerhood with lips stoicly still and this terrible secret locked in your breast, muttering 'they must never know ... I shall bear this burden alone ... ' Oh, never mind. 'Tis better to have known and lost than never to have known at all ... or something like that. That sounds exactly like him! I don't know, maybe that sort of 'papers fluttering everywhere' mind was necessary to construct something like the Silmarillion. We should take comfort in that.
Tirned Tinnu, thank you for the stirring tale! Pleasure to hear it retold so well. Saxony Tarn has a very enjoyable tale of Boromir with references to Boromir telling his little brother tales of Thorongil when they were both kids. I thought that was a great idea. I didn't realize that the situation with Faramir replicated Aragorn's loss of his friend as a young man ... except this time, he get there in time to save the kid. That must have seemed like a wonderful grace to him. I wonder if Ecthelion and his grandson resembled each other? Faramir seems to be strong in the Numenorean heritage, and Ecthelion was a noble man by all accounts ... excellent taste in friends and champions and so forth.
[Edit] Where did you get the material on Ecthelion's death, Tirned Tinnu? I was just checking spellings in Appendix A of RotK and it has Ecthelion alive when Thorongil leaves Gondor. Is this from an alternative text? Great story, anyway.
[Further Edit] Go to it, Tirned Tinnu! Write those stories! I'd love to read them!
[ September 16, 2002: Message edited by: Nar ]
[ September 16, 2002: Message edited by: Nar ]
|