The cup was beginning to run dry; he found very little left in him to give.
It reminded me of Little Boy Lost by Marghanita Laski. I was wondering if that was in your mind at all.
I hadn't thought of that, although it would fit very well, wouldn't it? I was thinking of some of the bitterest lines that pass between Denethor and Faramir, in RotK:
For a moment Faramir's restraint gave way. 'I would ask you, my father, to remember why it was that I, not he, was in Ithilien. On one occasion at least your counsel has prevailed, not long ago. It was the Lord of the City that gave the errand to him.'
'Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed for myself,' said Denethor. 'Have I not tasted it now many nights upon my tongue foreboding that worse yet lay in the dregs? As now indeed I find. Would it were not so! Would that this thing had come to me!'
Westu hál at the end is an echo of Éowyn passing around the cup in The Two Towers; a sign that the cup won't always be empty for Faramir.
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Date: 2005-06-30 04:33 am (UTC)The cup was beginning to run dry; he found very little left in him to give.
It reminded me of Little Boy Lost by Marghanita Laski. I was wondering if that was in your mind at all.
I hadn't thought of that, although it would fit very well, wouldn't it? I was thinking of some of the bitterest lines that pass between Denethor and Faramir, in RotK:
For a moment Faramir's restraint gave way. 'I would ask you, my father, to remember why it was that I, not he, was in Ithilien. On one occasion at least your counsel has prevailed, not long ago. It was the Lord of the City that gave the errand to him.'
'Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed for myself,' said Denethor. 'Have I not tasted it now many nights upon my tongue foreboding that worse yet lay in the dregs? As now indeed I find. Would it were not so! Would that this thing had come to me!'
Westu hál at the end is an echo of Éowyn passing around the cup in The Two Towers; a sign that the cup won't always be empty for Faramir.