![]() ![]() HE’S A GOOD CHARACTER, THIS IS NOT EVEN HALF OF ITįinduilas loved the sea. These men are tired! These men are in PAIN! These men are BAD at emotional intimacy! These men have the weight of the world literally on their shoulders and they may be making good tactical decisions for a war but they’re making the worst decisions for their personal relationships and it’s just!!! FFFF IT’S GOOD WRITING IT’S MEATY!!! I live for Denethor saying ‘I wish Boromir had been at Henneth Annun rather than you because you no longer trust me’ and Faramir hearing ‘I wish you had died instead of Boromir’ and so retaliating with ‘it’s your fault Boromir is dead’ and Denethor painfully taking that blow with a snapped acceptance and Faramir being left at a loss. I live for Faramir telling Denethor he’d rather die than compromise his morals and Denethor crying out in the desperate fear that instils in him but also instantly snapping that door shut and pushing forward into practicality because Faramir is CLOSED to him and Gandalf is RIGHT there and he simply cannot be vulnerable here. Like complex ADULT family dynamics that are difficult and painful but still with an underlying love? I live for that shit. One has to stan just a little bit, come on.Īnd then and then!! I actually adore his book relationship with Faramir and Boromir. The fact that it took SO long for him to even waver is really more of a personal victory against Sauron and anyone has claimed since? Isildur? The sheer power of Denethor’s bloody minded focus is enough to mind duel an evil angel. Contending with Sauron might have aged him well beyond his years but Denethor still managed to wring vital information out of that stone and divide falsehood from fact for all that time. Like Denethor is a human man who has been dead-eyeing sauron on the DAILY for fifty!! years!! And Saruman too! Saruman tried to spy on him, tried to manipulate him and Denethor wasn’t even phased. He’s been doing this for as long as he’s been the Steward. People keep talking about him using the Palantir like it’s a really bad thing and he’s overestimated himself like. I am very very invested in narratives about action and beauty despite hopeless circumstances.Īnd then it’s just like? Not to be very basic but. POWERFUL about it, it gives me this push of energy, this surge of will and desire to do. There is just something so viscerally ahh…. It’s also seen in Boromir’s ‘Gondor wanes, but Gondor stands and even at the end of it’s strength, it is still very strong’ and then later in Denethor’s ‘ In what is left, let all who fight the Enemy in their fashion be at one, and keep hope while they may, and after hope still the hardihood to die free.‘ But that touches on another theme that is a BIG favourite of mine which is ‘make them bleed for every inch, rage against the dying of the light’. The thing about Denethor is he really has no hope left, he hasn’t believed they will win this war for many years. Somewhere in the book he’s called ‘Dauntless’ and it really does define him so well. Despite everything the war has cost him, it’s not until he has lost the very last thing he’s living for that his resolution breaks. Denethor is having to send his sons to war without him for the past 20 years and YET?ĭenethor’s DEFINING characteristic is his unwavering determination to protect his people. Denethor lost the single dearest love of his life to this war. Boromir might have won back Osgiliath in recent memory but Denethor has been winning and re-winning that outpost back and forth for decades before him. This man is 90! Denethor’s been at war since he was 30! Denethor had a father who completely dismissed him in favour of a charismatic stranger. It’s always a staple of my humour and Denethor’s weary kind of bitten determined resignation to the situation he has been given is something I find DEEP joy in, it’s a favourite trope. I mean I personally for a basic start have a very dear fondness for sardonic wit. The depth of him that comes across despite his relatively brief appearance. URGH what a question!!! ffsfshh This Ask is a good read to start off with but damn my favourite parts of Denethor? Is just like.
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