#secxndson

[servantofthesecretfire]

"Did I fall asleep?"

Gandalf glanced up from his papers, eyes twinkling as he frowned at the Steward’s younger son. 

"At least an hour ago, young man!" he pronounced. "Do you find my company so dull that you must flee into dreams to escape it?" 

He set aside one scroll for another, the low lamplight flickering in the enclosed space of the Archives.

[xthewoodsman]

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         “To  be  quite honest,  I don't  get to  see a lot            of  strangers  around  here  lately.  And what            is  worse;   when  I  do,  they  are  not  of  the            best  kind  you'd  wish  to run  into,  trully. So            let  me   just   ask  you   right  away,   do  you            mean      any      harm?"       The Woodsman            shuffles the ax on his broad shoulder,  just            to assure that it is still there. Both, himself,            and the stranger.

[lastqueenofnumenor-blog]

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6th Person gets: A heartfelt confession

There really was no easy way to say it, although there were probably more diplomatic ways of saying it than blurting it out at the breakfast table.

"Faramir, could you please pass the butter?" she asked politely. "Also, I am in love with your father."

[lastqueenofnumenor-blog]

♫

♫ A drabble about our muses inspired by the next song that comes on shuffle

(Song - If I Ever Lose My Faith In You)

[Damn, that’s an awesome song for her.]

She liked this younger son of Denethor’s. She liked Boromir as well, would like to get drunk with him some time and try to make him blush with the most explicit songs she can think to sing. There was something different about Faramir, though. He nearly reminded her of Amandil. And so she had sought him out one evening when she knew he was not busy with other duties, and found him delightful company.

At her request he took her for a walk along one of the walls, and she noted how the guardsmen treated him with not only respect but a sort of thing that might be called love. They talked of small things, then deeper things; Miriel gently pulled what information from him he would provide about himself, his family, his city. At last the setting sun seemed to gild the fields about them, though it did not touch the mountains to the east. They had been speaking of the old Númenorean customs, the once-queen telling him of the Three Prayers and the harsh eyes of the stone eagles on Meneltarma, the green veldt that was never tended by human hand but never grew weeds or suffered the presence of butterflies. 

At a lull in the conversation she found herself clasping his arm companionably, standing close at his side. She wondered what they must look like, and a vision of the white streets of Roménna overwhelmed her. She stared out at the land spread before them, not able to look at him as she spoke. 

"You do not know the faith that we placed in you, the hope that our descendants would survive and thrive and go on to stand strong, redeem our mistakes. An unfair burden to have set on the shoulders of men and women not yet born. But you have fulfilled the faith of the Faithful, Faramir. No matter what comes, do not ever forget that."

[tenstrangecats]

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[southtothesea-blog]

△ *tickling match

It was one of the days she could not leave her bed, but Faramir had decided to keep her company. He was tucked under her arm, reading aloud to her from some storybook from the nursery. Her youngest might as well have come out of the womb with a book in his hands, and it made her smile at this little stamp of Denethor’s personality that had found its way into their son.

Her love of him overwhelmed her suddenly and she grinned at him and quickly tickled his ribs, pulling him into her lap and mercilessly continuing the attack. His laughter was better than any medicine the healers could offer.

[lonelysailings-archive-blog]

"Can you feel it?"

Sentence Meme: B△STILLE EDITION

"Aye." Turning his face into the wind, Legolas narrowed his eyes. On the horizon, a column of smoke rose from behind the mountains, twisting its baleful way into the clouds. "A storm approaches, and an ill wind blows from the east. Rain will be upon us soon." Gesturing to the smoke, arm outstretched, he added, "And not only rain! I fear that the remains of Sauron's forces are gathering once more. They are a scattered band, weakened by the loss of their leader, but they loathe all that you and I have built here, in Ithilien. Even with their dying breaths, they will seek to destroy us."

[southtothesea-blog]

Quiet Me

Leave a “Quiet Me” in my ask, and I’ll write a drabble about my character trying to calm yours down [be it from crying, from lashing out, feel free to specify.]

Finduilas rocked and rocked in the oak chair, cradling the colicky infant as he screeched like a dying rabbit. Her face was pale and she had to stop sometimes to cough weakly, and the sling around her shoulder took most of the baby’s weight as she stroked his cheek.

She had been abed so long that she feared he would not know her. Unable to nurse in her ill condition, her milk had dried up, and his wet-nurse had cared for him almost exclusively in the last weeks. Today was the first day since his birth that Finduilas had felt well enough to leave her bed, and though he cried and cried, she relished every breath from those tiny but powerful lungs. He was in her arms at last, just the two of them together with no attendants – though one slept in the adjoining room, she had shooed the woman back to bed.

Finduilas found breath enough to hum softly to him, air enough to breathe in his sweet baby scent. She had brought him into the world and he was strong, and he was hers by blood and pain and weariness. He was worth it all and more. It was nearly dawn before he calmed, but as the sun rose the nurse walked in to find mother and babe sound asleep in the rocking chair.