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The second of Denethor's two sons, Faramir was a Steward of Gondor after his father. Upon the arrival of the true king, King Aragorn Elessar, he laid down his office as Ruling Steward, but Elessar renewed his hereditary appointment as Steward and advisor to the King. Faramir was also appointed Prince of Ithilien.
Faramir, a captain of Gondor, had a prophetic dream counseling him to see the Sword that was broken in Imladris, which was identified as the Elvish name for Rivendell. His older brother Boromir, who had also had the dream (though Faramir had the dream several times and Boromir only once), claimed the right to the errand and travelled nearly four months to Rivendell, arriving just in time for the Council of Elrond where he reported the dream and its prophetic verses. Aragorn, then a chieftain in hiding serving as a mere Ranger, turned out to be the subject of the verse—the Sword that was broken was an heirloom of his line, NarsilTolkien's fictional universe of Middle-earth, Narsil was the sword of King Elendil of the Dunedain. It was forged during the First Age by the Dwarf Telchar, making it a cousin to the blade Angrist which cut a Silmaril from the crown of Morgoth. The name c, the sword of ElendilIn Middle-earth, the fantasy universe of J. Tolkien, Elendil is the father of Isildur and Anarion and the founder and first king of Arnor and Gondor. Elendil was born in 3119 of the Second Age in Numenor as son of Amandil, Lord of Andunie and leader of th. Yet the news of this revelation was late in coming to Faramir, due to Boromir's long detour and untimely death.
Faramir continued to lead his men in the desperate struggle against the forces of MordorTolkien's fictional universe of Middle-earth, Mordor is the dwelling place of Sauron, in the southeast of Middle-earth. Frodo and Sam went there to destroy the One Ring. Mordor was unique because of the three enormous mountain ridges surrounding it, from—they were the Rangers of Ithilien, harassing SauronSauron is a fictional character from J. Tolkien's Middle-earth universe. He is the titular Lord of the Rings against whom the protagonists of that series struggle. His name is pronounced in IPA as: sn and in SAMPA as: sAUr\`Qn''. His "birth" occured in 30 from right outside his walls. During a battle with SouthronsSee Southron for other uses of the word. Southrons are a fictitious nation of Men in the works of J. They are also known as Haradrim, which is Sindarin for "South-folk". The Haradrim were the people of Far and Near Harad, the great region south of the riv, Faramir encountered the Hobbitfan's idea of a typical Hobbit . Hobbits are a fictional race from J. Tolkien's Middle-earth universe which first appears in the book The Hobbit''. They also play a major role in The Lord of the Rings''. Description Hobbits are two to four feet tall, withs FrodoFrodo Baggins is the main fictional character of J. Tolkien's monumental and mythological novel, The Lord of the Rings''. He is a Hobbit, born on September 22 of the year 2968 of the Third Age (T. to Drogo Baggins and Primula Brandybuck. 2980, Frodo lost and Sam, who were on a mission of great secrecy and importance: the destruction of the One Ring.
The Hobbits brought news of the appearance of Isildur's heir, but they were not aware of Boromir's death, which Faramir himself had seen in a vision. He guessed at the cause of the estrangement between his brother and the two Hobbits and through intelligent questioning and intuition he determined that Frodo was carrying some great weapon. At this point, he showed the crucial difference between he and his proud brother: "I would not take this thing, if it lay by the highway," he declared. Later, when he discovered that the weapon was the One Ring, he repeated this statement. He released the Hobbits, enabling them to speed on their quest to destroy the Ring.
Upon his return to Gondor prior the Battle of the Pelennor Fields in defense of Minas Tirith, Faramir was gravely wounded. While he was in the Houses of Healing, injured by too much exposure to the Black Breath of Sauron, he was healed by Aragorn. There he met Éowyn of Rohan, who lay languishing and unfulfilled despite having killed the Witch King. He turned her heart from despair and the two fell in love and later married. At Aragorn's coronation, Faramir—who very briefly served as Ruling Steward—gladly passed the rule of Gondor to the rightful King. He then became an advisor to King Elessar, fulfilling the traditional role of the hereditary office of Steward. He was appointed as the first Prince of Ithilien, a position which would have made him warden of Gondor's easternmost outpost and responsible for the rehabilitation of the territory reclaimed from Sauron.
Faramir was, in the words of Tolkien, "modest, fair-minded and scrupulously just, and very merciful" ( The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien, 244). His appearance toward the end of The Two Towers apparently was as much of a surprise to Tolkien as it is to his readers. "I am sure I did not invent him," he wrote. "I did not even want him, though I like him" ( Letters, 66).
Faramir in many ways speaks for Tolkien, who was a soldier in World War I, when he says, for example, "I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness....I love only that which they defend" (The Two Towers, "The Window on the West"). Much later, Tolkien would write, "As far as any character is 'like me', it is Faramir" ( Letters, 180)