#steward boromir

[bretwalda-lamnguin]

The first Boromir was son of Denethor I, and the second one son of Denethor II, so I headcanon that Denethor II's mother was called Rían, just like Denethor I. She did genuinely like the name Denethor, and thought it fitting to name a son she foresaw as being so tall and kingly after an ancient elven king, but the parallel, and the thought of causing confusion for future loremasters definitely pleased her humour. Luckily for her, her son took after his mother in this.

#denethor ii #boromir #denethor i #steward boromir #rían of gondor #húrinionath #my posts

[anghraine]

Now that I’m thinking about the Ruling Stewardship being inherited through female lines a couple of times, by contrast to Gondor’s (and apparently Arnor’s/Arthedain’s) firm position that only male-line male heirs could inherit the crown, I’m wondering a lot about Denethor I.

This Denethor was the son of Steward Dior’s sister Rían, and the first person to inherit the rule of Gondor through a woman. We don’t really have any details of how he inherited the Stewardship—was there any controversy? was it Dior’s decision? the Council’s? was it a perfectly smooth transition? what was Rían’s place in all this?

If there were any shenanigans to enable the continuance of the Ruling Stewardship, it’s interesting that the consequences of Rían’s descendants succeeding to the Stewardship were so directly spectacular. Denethor I’s son was the asskicking Steward Boromir whom even the Witch-king feared, and Boromir’s son was Cirion himself, “a man of little pride and of great courage and generosity of heart, the noblest of the Stewards of Gondor.”

#i want to know about rían so badly and there's nothing. /sigh #but denethor i seems pretty cool and then boromir was amazing and then CIRION <333 #whoever decided her line could inherit made the right call. like. damn. #anghraine babbles #rían daughter of barahir #denethor i #steward dior #legendarium blogging #jrr tolkien #unfinished tales #peoples of middle earth #steward boromir #cirion #húrinionath

[emilybeemartin]

This started as a sketch and then I started painting on it halfway through, and then I merged a few layers I didn't mean to merge, and then it spiraled off the rails from there, stylistically. The color balance is burning my eyeballs and the levels are doing who even knows, but I took a leaf out of @nihilizzzm's book and added decorative stars and dots and it did, indeed, make it better.

ANYWAY, if lotr wiki is to be believed (referenced from Unfinished Tales, maybe?) the flag of the office of the Stewards is pure white with no device, and their symbol is a white rod and three white stars. I've been meaning to play around with this imagery (because I'm trash for symbolism), so I sketched up a concept of Boromir's formal uniform for Aragorn's coronation. I like the idea of Aragorn in dark blue, black, and silver and Boromir in white, silver, and gold.

#boromir lives #lord of the rings #lotr #boromir #stewards of gondor

[the-writing-warg]

Just in case my fellow lotr fans didn't know, there's 2 wild orcas in Iceland called Boromir and Faramir, and since they are often seen travelling closely together its possible they're brothers

Boromir

Faramir

Its worth mentioning there's also orcas called ulmo, angmar and aragorn that are seen around Iceland (idk if they were named because of lotr but theyre still technically lotr names so I'm counting it)

#the hobbit #lord of the rings #boromir #faramir #gondor #stewards of gondor #orcas #icelandic orca #killer whale #tolkien #jrr tolkien #hobbit #aragorn #ulmo #lotr #valar #angmar #witch king of angmar #icelandic killer whales

[entishramblings]

Realizing that Denethor was supposed to be “attractive” was not on my 2024 bingo card.

“Denethor looked indeed much more like a great wizard than Gandalf did, more kingly, beautiful, and powerful; and older.” — Return of the King, Chapter 1

“Denethor was a proud man, tall, valiant, and more kingly than any man that had appeared in Gondor for many lives of men; and he was wise also, and far-sighted, and learned in lore.”— Lord of the Rings, Appendix A

You’re telling me, Denethor could have been:

artists (left to right, row by row): Catherine Karina Chmiel, Katarzyna Chmiel-Gugulska, Joshua Cairós, & Magali Villeneuve

Because seriously…daddy? sorry. daddy? sorry. daddy? sorry.

But instead we were gifted creepy tomato uncle vibes:

Bruhh…

Also the tomato was just unnecessary to have imprinted on my brain for all eternity

#lotr #lord of the rings #the hobbit #denethor #Denethor II #gondor #steward of Gondor #LOTR shitpost #LOTR shitposts #LOTR meme #LOTR memes #LOTR art #Denethor art #lord of the rings art #faramir #boromir

[estellaestella]

We're all anti monarchy until the prince/ king/ duke is hot, then it's all, no no he can have his birthright.

#monarchy but make it romantic #dune part two #timothée chalamet #timothee chalamet #dune #paul atreides #boromir's family were stewards for how many years? but the instant aragorn opened those doors like that- we were like the king has returned #ofcourse they always make the usurped person awful- paul is also gonna be awful & covered in blood but he'll look sexier than the emperor 🤷

[dishsaop]

return of the king is on and i have to look away every time denethor is onscreen. they did him so badly. it hurts. i like the movies a lot but my god peter jackson couldnt do layered characters. i understand they were strapped for time and had to make a plot with only a fraction of the space the books had, but it would have been so much more impactful to keep denethor as a noble, beautiful, brilliant, and lordly character forced into a terrible situation with no good choices rather than reduce him to a mean dad is mean its good we're killing him to make way for aragorn lookit how nasty he is guy.

not only does it cheapen and simplify the story, but it also destroys boromir and faramirs characters and motivations! to make faramir the abused wet-dog of a good-boy misunderstood son, and boromir the wrongly-devoted misplaced-passion fathers-son... it cheapens them! faramir is full of noble talk but he has his flaws, and boromir was devoted to his father and his city for good reasons. denethor was a good ruler! denethor was proud and beautiful and noble! but in turning denethor into a pathetic grimy man with favoritism turns faramir into an underdog martyr and boromir into almost a villain. (imo it also cheapens the impactfulness of pippin as a guard and of aragorn taking the kingship but i digress)

i like the movies. i understand why things were skipped, shortened, and cut. i understand why characters were changed! but this is smthn so lazy that just enrages me.

#denethor ii #lotr #lord of the rings #boromir #faramir #return of the king #steward of gondor #OF COURSE DONT GET ME STARTED ON GIMLI MY BELOVED LORD OF AGLAROND BUT I DONT HAVE TIME NOW #m text

[meteors-lotr]

Love the implication that the entire story of lord of the rings wouldn’t have happened if Denethor had been dead

Well it certainly wouldn’t have hurt would it?

#With Denethor dead then Boromir would have been the Steward right? #Then maybe he wouldn’t have joined the fellowship #Maybe Faramir would have instead #So like Bori would at least have lived #We take that win any day #lotr #lord of the rings #the hobbit #tilda dragondaughter #tilda of dale #Denethor #Meteor answers an ask because they can

[whiteladyofithilien]

Tolkien Theory Time

I posit that in the Palantir one of the many possible futures Sauron caused Lord Denethor to see was a future that when both his sons had died there was no hope for Gondor. That this was somehow a sign of things he had seen. Losing Boromir was the first crack but so long as Faramir lived there was a glimmer that maybe Gondor would somehow survive and that there was a purpose in continuing to strive against the Dark Tower then when Faramir returns near enough to death to be mistaken for dead the last tiny thread of Denethor's hope and sanity snaps and with his city nearly in ruins he's like 'yep this is definitely the doomed future I saw in the Palantir one there's no purpose in living any longer when all is lost' and decides to turn himself and his son into a human smore party.

#Denethor #Steward of Gondor #tolkien #lord of the rings #lotr #gondor #faramir #boromir #captains of gondor #captain of gondor #tower guard #minas tirith #battle of pelennor fields #palantir #minas anor #Sauron #gandalf #jrr tolkien #jrrt #tolkien theory time #i do not desire the speech of living men

[hjbirthdaywishes]

April 17, 2024

Happy 65 Birthday to Sean Bean.

#Sean Bean #Happy Birthday #Boromir #Boromir of Gondor #Captain of the White Tower #High Warden of the White Tower #Steward-prince of Gondor #Lord of the Rings #The Fellowship of the Ring #The Two Towers #The Return of the King #LotR

[brigdrawsstuff]

The Sons of the Steward, circa 2987 T.A

#attempts at watercolour #young boromir #young faramir #lotr #fanart #gondor #the sons of the steward

[bretwalda-lamnguin]

Underrated Tolkien character: the surgeon (or surgeons) who removed the shards of the Morgul Blade from Steward Boromir. It's entirely possible this is a weapon they had never seen before, which even Elrond with all his experience struggled to treat and couldn't heal completely. Sure, it still severely shortened Boromir's life and caused him great pain, but he avoided a fate worse than death, and Gondor didn't have the mess of deciding what to do about having a wraith as its head of state. I don't think poor Cirion would have been quite such a brilliant ruler if he had to start his reign by mercy killing his own father...

#steward boromir #cirion #lotr #húrinionath

[anghraine]

I headcanon that Dúnedain of both the North and Gondor have a considerable number of ... like, low-grade magic trinkets that they often don't know the provenance of.

This stuff isn't at all on the scale of the palantíri, though some were definitely brought from Númenor (mostly because people would carry them around for luck). There's some stuff that they got from Elves, especially in Dol Amroth and Eriador. There's some they crafted all on their own, like Merry's dagger or Boromir's horn. There's some they make and then place virtues on (whatever that means).

But even the jewels of this kind aren't like mini-Silmarils, they're more like mini-Elendilmíri—there's definitely something going on and they seem just a little too bright at times, but a lot of the inheritors of those kinds of gems have never been able to figure out what they're supposed to do beyond that. And sometimes the answer is "nothing," some of these things were just crafted to be nightlights for scared children that would also look nice when they got older. Sometimes this stuff helps with tracking in a minor way, or things like that.

Gondorian Dúnedain also seem to know about the One Ring, but in my headcanon, their understanding starts out with: "oh, so like Grandfather's ring that shines when he gets lost? but evil."

#10-y-o dúnadan child: but... how do you make that evil? #adult (darkly): he can turn all to evil #seriously though i do imagine that the stars in the stewards' sigil represents heirlooms like this #not quite as blatantly mystical as boromir's horn #(though interestingly that was made only one generation before the ruling stewardship began) #but three gems they inherited that are slightly mysterious and very bright and passed on w/ other heirlooms #they no longer even know where they came from but they've been faithfully passed down since forever #as far as their records go #and are the oldest heirloom of their house #anghraine babbles #legendarium blogging #anghraine's headcanon #team dúnedain #húrinionath

[sonxofxgondor]

Being a very outgoing and extroverted person, everyone assumes that Boromir has many friends. There's no lie to that, it's very true. Boromir has many that he considers a friend. From the people of Gondor and other kingdoms of Men, knights and nobles and the common folk, to the Dwarves and Elves and Hobbits just across the land. A wizard, too. But only one person has claim to the title of best friend by he. Or, at least, a title shared amongst eight, but is especially held by one.

Boromir has many friends, yes, but the best of all is Faramir.

#Shadow of the Past \\ Headcanons #(( He loves Faramir so much! #(( He'd do ANYTHING for his sometimes shy and sweet little brother #(( Faramir is the first to know all the secrets and always receives the first hug #(( Boromir *let me tell you how amazing and wonderful my little brother is* steward prince of Gondor

[brigwife]

I'll probably try and do something more with this but for now please enjoy the sons of the steward 🤍💙🖤

#boromir #faramir #my babies #lotr #fanart #sons of the steward

[shadeslayer]

ill be real with you (said to my followers none of whom care about lotr afaik) boromir wouldve been a bad steward. theres many reasons he died and one of them is that gondor needs to stop being so warlike and favoring the valour of combat and warriors over all else and faramir needs to be steward bc he can properly understand and steward aragorn whereas i doubt boromir knows more than a few snatched of elvish.. like. boromir is made for battle and for the ending of the 3rd age he isnt one to live in the 4th age tbqh. and i think thats why théoden and denethor died too. éowyn shows it too in her pivot from aiming to gain power and renown through combat and instead deciding to be a healer

#anompolili #best outcome for boromir lives everything else is the same would be like #faramir is made steward and boromir is given some sort of captaincy of a guard and he feels neutered & redundant