White Lady, With Lamp

[altariel]

It was she they wanted, Lady Wraithbane.

White Lady, With Lamp

Ithilien, in the Fourth Age

In the years after, so many of them came that a house was built in a tranquil valley where Elves now dwelt. Young men no more, the horror of that past still shaped their desolate present. Elf-song soothed them – but it was she they wanted, Lady Wraithbane, whose deed felled a dread king.

And Éowyn welcomed each of them, and fought for them, and ordered a fair house for them. But their devotion baffled her. She never quite grasped what her husband always knew – that pity was hers too, and the healing love can be strong as well as gentle.

Comments

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

I'm going to follow this wave of creativity as long as it lasts, see where it takes me.

Feels like spring rain to me. Here's hoping it continues to pour!

I love the painting the icon is taken from vastly.

It's utterly gorgeous. My favourite of Eissmann's F&E works, though the one before it with the starry cloak is pretty adorable too. (Though looking at some of the ones that make Faramir look more gaunt, lo, do I find my protagonist! Or at least a whitened-up version of him.)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

the one before it with the starry cloak is pretty adorable too

Yes, that one is gorgeous. Grab him while you can, girl, for god's sake!

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Before that nasty Mr Jackson breaks him...

[altariel.livejournal.com]

La, la, la, can't hear Mr Jackson! Only the radio play remains in my head! Oh, and the book.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Who plays Faramir in the radio play? I don't think we've got a copy any more.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

An actor called Andrew Seear, who I have only seen elsewhere in a single episode of the TV drama Enemy at the Door (set on Nazi-occupied Guernsey), where, rather brilliantly, he plays a Commando Captain.

Denethor is played by Peter Vaughan, who is brilliant.