Tolkien Fan Fiction
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| There'll Always Be An England (Faramir) |
Prompts: Facets of Faramir: Statesman Meta: [canon work] took place during WW1 or 2 |
| There’ll Always Be An England Childhood was a brief golden summer, blighted by his mother’s sudden death. After that came poetry, and the relative obscurity of the second son. A first at Balliol (history). He survived the first war, but scarred, besieged by tumultuous nightmares. Women of a certain type adored him for his cheekbones, the early loss of his mother, his sombre solitude, his kindness. Entering Parliament on his brother’s death, he understood the Nazi threat early. The backbenches beckoned, then vindication under the new PM. And as the bombs hit Dresden, he thought: I am not the man I imagined I would be. |