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Great interview with John Noble on being Denethor...
and thanks to Seasalt who pointed me to it this morning after putting up with my meanderings last night.


In spite of what it sometimes looks like, I am a Denethor fan (if a grudging one). The fact that I take him over the coals as I examine how I feel about him seems only fair to me...

His free-fall descent into madness is the engine that powers a large part of my writing, even when he is nowhere to be seen on the surface.

And I am coming to understand John Noble's Denethor little by little. I made the image I posted last night because wondered if, after all, he had understood that Faramir *was* the fire of his flesh, and he had had the misfortune to miss it -- (well, I really want to babble about this, but it is built in to the bloody palantir story, so close to done, and I sense myself about to give it all away, as I so often do, so I will stop there for now.)


I like what I am able to work with in PJ's Faramir and in Noble's Denethor -- But my heart is screaming the way it was the night I wrote Breathe because baby Faramir was getting dunked in Anduin too hard for my heart --

it's this:

... and silly bloody Faramir wants to go off and write poetry or something...

I want it on the record *NOW* that when silly, bloody Faramir goes off to hide in poetry and philosophy, he does so in much the same manner as Marcus Aurelius did. It does not interfere in the least with what makes him a good soldier, or a good commander...it makes him a stronger, more well rounded man and a thoughtfull leader

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[ex-seasalt15.livejournal.com]

That´s a very good comparison I have made myself on a number of occassions ;-). If he were a woman, he would be the perfect incarnation of Athena (I´m not sure he would be a good Apollo though: it´s true that Apollo is associated with ravens, but the essence of Apollo is Light, and thus imperturbable, serene insight, more than reflective intelligence, which is Athena´s province). It´s funny, though, that from what I´ve seen DW is a much, much better fighter than Sean Bean!

[bell-witch.livejournal.com]

I had to go read the story "Breathe". Well, of course I ended up reading all three parts to it. It was stunning.

The line that got to me the most, oddly, was this one:
“Maybe, but I read about many different things. I feel like the whole world comes pouring off the page into my dreams. I will never be tired of wanting to know.”

Maybe it's because it expresses so well how I feel about things. I studied well when I was at school, but I've learned much more on my own than they ever taught me. I can choose my own subjects, and the way my mind works, there are many different things that interest me at different times. I often come back to things I looked at before, but there's always something new.

Where can I find more of your writing? Under what name do I look?

[fileg.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you liked it. I didn't really inted to write fan fiction, but Faramir had other ideas, and I can apparently deny him nothing..... It was the first story of any kind that I wrote down, and now I am itching to polish it a bit.


The section you picked is very telling for me as well. Chris, who Beta's for me and has known me for nearly thirty years, says that the way I write Faramir, he has to carry the weigh of my own childhood. And I suppose thats a fair observation - he often is my own voice in my gen stories. This is one of those spots,

I have done all my writing under my Fileg name. I'm in a buch of archives, and there are some links on my user info page here. The bulk of the work is at the gryphonsmith site, though all the last years drabbbles have yet to be added - I can't seem to figure out an attractive and usefull way to link up the small pieces. You might like River of Fallien Stars.

[bell-witch.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the link. I've taken the URL. I enjoy longer stories, sometimes even novel-length, although I've got to be careful, since a good story will keep me on the computer overlong, and it's not mine. Mostly it's okay, but sometimes I tie up mom's phone line when someone is trying to call.

Carrying the weight of your childhood sounds difficult. I haven't read your stories, so I can't judge. But you only stop learning when you're dead. I think I ended up writing Snape in Harry Potter fandom because I know what it's like to be alone, picked on as a kid, and pretty much hated. I'm rather bitter about how things turned out, too. I wouldn't recommend reading anything I've written, because I've been on the dark side for a while and certainly since I've come to write HP. It's far easier than Tolkien and requires much less research.

Still, I'd probably end up writing Faramir if I ever tried to do LoTR. So many others do it better than I could.