Tolkien Fan Fiction
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| Self-Medication (Faramir, Éowyn) |
Prompts: Facets of Faramir: Writer Poetic Forms: Sonnet Scientific achievement: Pharmacy Dwimordene and Aliana asked what would happen if Faramir saw what Denethor saw in the palantír. But he's already seen it in his dreams. |
| Self-Medication Over the years he devised many tricks to distract from the fact of imminent annihilation, the dream-brought knowledge that not even the virtuous survive the end of the world. Music helped; fast finger-exercises transmuting conscious thought into muscle-memory. Words were better; ever-increasing mastery of complex tongues and forms. Meditations on the natural world. Rainbow sunsets to persuade him of a world beyond death. One ash day, his strategies fall in ruins. Then she walks into the garden. If you live, he thinks, artless as a schoolboy, there is still life. Self has limits - but beyond the self is infinite. |