Work-Life Balance

[altariel]

He will be late again for dinner.

Work-Life Balance

Minas Tirith, in the Fourth Age

He will be late again for dinner. It cannot be helped. Tomorrow morning the council meets, and he has not touched those papers yet. Across the room his daughter prowls. Recently she has been watching every scratch of his pen, every forkful of food.

“Out with it,” he says, at last.

“You never do anything for yourself! You should… you should find yourself a hobby!”

She is beautiful, on the cusp of womanhood. Fierce as her mother on his account. His life’s work: leaving her the world he never had.

“I already have a hobby, blackbird. I call it Gondor.”

Comments

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

His life’s work: leaving her the world he never had.

Lovely. I do think Faramir & Denethor had a lot in common, but I hope Faramir manages to profit by his father's errors.

[applegnat.livejournal.com]

I'm in love with all these children. I'll never be able to think of Ithilien without them. ♥

[azalaisdep.livejournal.com]

I love the image of Morwen prowling fiercely - he calls her "blackbird" but she sounds more like the cat who's stalking the bird!

(Is she dark-haired like her grandmother, then? For some reason I had her down in my head as blond...)

And no, Faramir, Gondor is not your hobby, Gondor is your job! (As I'm sure Morwen will point out...)

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

They are both so very good to one another. This is marvellously touching and I'm awed again that you can express so much, so delicately in so few words.

[fallingtowers.livejournal.com]

Basically what applegnat said: Your version of Faramir and Éowyn's family is basically canon in my mind, and I think I might like Morwen best of all (considering that she resembles the great-grandmother after whom she's named and is as fierce as her own mother in spirit, that's no surprise :D).