Denethor's Love for Faramir
Denethor was a flawed man and a flawed father in lots of ways, but never tell me this guy didn't love his son furiously, or regret the hurt he caused him.
'I sent my son forth, unthanked, unblessed, out into needless peril, and here he lies with poison in his veins.'
Men came to the door crying for the Lord of the City. ‘Nay, I will not come down,’ he said. ‘I must stay beside my son. He might still speak before the end. '
Denethor started as one waking from a trance, and the flame died in his eyes, and he wept; and he said: ‘Do not take my son from me! He calls for me.’
And like, this comes after Faramir disobeys him and flaunts his orders in a serious way, and Faramir owns it and doesn't apologise. Faramir and Denethor argue, Faramir and Denethor go at each other's throats and says just the exact thing to hurt each other, but Denethor loves him until the end, and at the end, his love for Faramir, his desire to die at his side and not be parted, his despair at losing him, while manifests itself into a twisted form of love, is also the only thing he's holding onto.
