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Title: The Ghost Of Utterance Past (Drabble) (#2358)
Author: Rous
Chapters: 2

Archive: Tolkien
Category: Lord of the Rings
Description: A drabble based on two brothers.  My first with these particular characters.
Published: 08 Nov 2005
Updated: 08 Nov 2005
Warnings: Maybe a hanky
Type: Angst
Characters: Boromir; Faramir


Chapter 1 - The Ghost Of Utterance Past

“It is mine!”

“No, it is mine!”

“What are you boys arguing about?” their mother interrupted.

“He says it is his right to accompany Father on his inspection tomorrow.”

“Well, my son, he is to be the Steward one day.  He must learn the land and its people.”

“But, Mother, it is dangerous out there.  Should not I go in his stead, for his protection?”

“No, child, ‘tis his place, and he will return, I promise.”



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Years later, facing the river, Faramir silently cried, but, it should have been my right! 
the ghost of his mother’s words haunting him.


Chapter 2 - A/N

This is my first foray into the world of men, in particular, Boromir or Faramir.  While I find movieverse Boromir very distasteful, and Faramir rather pathetic, I was moved to write this challenge about them.  I think there was much more character to both of them than that which was portrayed.
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