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  (#) Ithilwen 2006-03-19

  Maybe he could swear by the tree or by the tower. Or you could make something up. How about something reminiscent of Numenor sinking: "By Ar-Zimraphel's foam," or something suggesting froth on the lips of a drowned person.

• Rum

  (#) Raksha_The_Demon 2006-03-27

  I don't have a problem with Faramir very occasionally, and in moments of extreme stress, swearing by the Valar; after all, one of Faramir's Rangers does, though it's more a prayer than a swear, in the book The Two Towers.
  
  Your drabble here is earnestly written, but to me, the characterisation is off -Faramir seems too ordinary; there's very little pride here, very little in the speech pattern that marks him as a Captain of Gondor, son of the Steward of the greatest City of Men in Middle-earth in the Third Age.
  
  I'm not sure if you were depicting the character from the book or the movie. Movie-Faramir is a weaker man, and this drabble might fit him; but he didn't have time to get drunk between Denethor's command and his leading out the doomed charge.
  
  Your technique is good. I hope you write more stories.

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