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Perhaps I’m reading this the wrong way, but one of the countless reasons why I prefer the book version of Faramir is that I think his book characterization more strongly depicts the positive impact that his big brother had on him. Despite their mother’s absence and their father’s cruelty, Faramir always had Boromir as his support system growing up. So the fact that book-Faramir still has a good bit of self-esteem - and isn’t desperate to prove himself to Denethor like film-Faramir is - is a testament to Boromir’s success in gifting Faramir with that invaluable sense of self-worth. In Faramir’s young childhood mind, “Mom went away too soon to leave much of an impact, Dad is always mean and nothing is ever enough for him…but big brother says I’m enough, and big brother is the best person in the whole world, so he must be right, and I AM enough.”

Maybe I’m mistaken and I should be considering other factors in book-Faramir’s strong self-possession, but I firmly believe that one of the factors in the film’s massive mischaracterization of Faramir is it does not reflect that Faramir indeed grew up with a loving support system in the form of Boromir that helped him to realize his worth didn’t have to be defined by Dad’s approval.

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Reblog to send Elrond hugs.

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If I had one dollar for every time I thought about Lord of the Rings in a day, I'd have one dollar a day, because I never stop thinking about it.

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An exchange between Gandalf and Saruman, probably.

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*Me, drooling over LOTR merch* : "😭 I'll never have 541 dollars to spend on a statue of a Ringwraith!"

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KOTLC future headcanon

When Amy Foster grows up, she goes to college and studies psychology and its related fields to become a therapist. Because of her good standing with Bronte as well as her connection to Sophie, a special contract is made which grants Amy permission to travel to the Lost Cities and provide therapy and counseling services for the Elves.

Amy goes on to have a successful career in the human world, but her primary and most beloved work is her top secret regular travels to the elven cities. Over time, with Sophie and friends now also adults, some changes take place in leadership positions, whether that be new Council members, members of the now openly recognized Black Swan, or other organizations, and steps are slowly being taken to make some level of reconnection between the human and elven worlds.

But Amy Foster is sadly still mortal, and some of the elves realize that one day she will not be there to continue providing the services she's introduced to the elven world and which have started to make a positive impact on the mental and emotional health of their people. So Rex Dizznee takes it upon himself to sneak off to the human world and dig into this world of psychology and mental health studies himself. At first this is a secret act of counterculture rebellion, but eventually it is endorsed by some of the new leadership, and they help provide resources and protection for his mission.

And so it is that the talentless and once socially scorned Rex Dizznee is the first pioneer among elves in bringing the mental health movement to the Lost Cities. Because of his fame, talentless people are now not only accepted (thanks to the influence of people like Sophie and Dex and Keefe) but also applauded and admired. Rex is even appointed as leader of a group commissioned to collect and transfer academic resources from the human world to improve the elves' own study of psychology. (Keefe might be able to help with his photographic memory, and maybe they could store some of the information in caches for safekeeping, as it's groundbreaking material for the Lost Cities.

So Amy is the first human and recognized professional therapist in the Lost Cities, and Rex is the first elven psychologist, commissioned researcher to the Forbidden Cities, and the first talentless elf to become famous for something good.

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[Un]conscionably, Tolkien's works have been severely underrepresented in the world of Tumblr sexymen. Now is[n't] the time to change that.

On a related note, did you know there is a Sexypedia Wiki? The research I do for these polls continues to surprise.