#stewards of gondor

[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

[dishsaop]

boromir is a butch lesbian, denethor is a femme lesbian, and faramir is a cishet guy whos just a little funky with it

#m text #yeah ill put this in the tags #boromir #denethor ii #faramir #lotr #lord of the rings #stewards of gondor

[shellshooked]

so about that lotr x zelda au...

#basic explanation zelda is lady of gondor daughter of the steward and link is a mirkwood elf #proper character profiles are in my ig and twt if you wish to know more!! #my art #tloz #the legend of zelda #zelink #loz #zelda #link #tloz fanart #breath of the wild #botw #totk #tears of the kingdom #the lord of the rings #fellowship of the ring #lotr #lotr fanart #lord of the rings fanart #zelda fanart #link fanart #zelink fanart #botw zelda #botw link #totk zelda #totk link

[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

[kazz-brekker]

i remain convinced that dark rise at least partially has its roots in sauron/morgoth fanfic

#yes i'm in my making multiple posts in a row about what i'm reading era sorry #there are just too many similarities in the narrative and characters??? #like the shadow kings are ringwraiths and the stewards of the hall the stewards of gondor #and like the dark lord's chief lieutenant having once been a good guy is also very sauron #plus sarcean and anharion are very lotr-coded names #pie says stuff #pie reads #dark rise #cs pacat #books

[anghraine]

Most of us in Tolkien fandom (at least in these parts) have a profound affection for some passingly mentioned female character we know almost nothing about.

Today's for me: Rían of Gondor, daughter of the Steward Barahir, sister of the Steward Dior, and mother of the Steward Denethor I (not to be confused with Boromir and Faramir's father, Denethor II).

She's one of the few named Gondorian women, but we know even less about her than most. We don't know who her husband was. We don't know what she thought or felt or did with regard to anything. All we know is that, while not the Steward herself, she was the first woman the rule of Gondor had ever passed through.

The Stewards committed their rule like a kingship, father to eldest son, and it was the established position of Gondor that its rule couldn't pass through women (see Princess Fíriel!). Perhaps the Stewards or the Council of the time justified changing their policy through the absence of a technical king, but the Stewards received the powers of absent kings from day 1 and were described by Gandalf as more powerful than actual kings like Théoden. The Ruling Stewards passed the Stewardship in exactly the same way as the kings had passed the crown—until Rían and Denethor.

If their excuse was that they weren't really kings, it would be pretty transparently an excuse to let the rule of Gondor pass through a woman's lineage for the first time.

What part did Rían play in this? Did she have to fight to get the White Rod in Denethor's hands? Was she a voluntary participant in the whole thing at all? What was her relationship like with her brother Dior, who passed the Stewardship to her son? Her relationship with Denethor himself? What about the unnamed but presumably existent husband (a kind of fun reversal of the usual "implied but unnamed women," lol)?

I want to knowwww.

#i'm so curious about rían but she barely exists textually ;_; #anghraine babbles #long post #rían daughter of barahir #steward dior #legendarium blogging #steward denethor i #húrinionath #ondonórë blogging #mannnn if the stewards' excuse /was/ that they weren't kings so technically women's lineage could count for the stewardship #it would be kind of incredible tbh—especially when you consider that they're descendants of elendil who aren't in the succession #likely because they're descended through women #oh yeah we're totally not kings. humility is very important. we're so unkingly that lady rían's son can rule gondor :)

[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

[afaramir]

do you think that faramir when he is steward, first of his house to abandon ruling from the title, ever thinks about his father and feels pity? for a lot of things, for sure, but what I’M thinking about is. well i think he thinks of boromir and knows that wherever he is, that that foremost dream of his, to see gondor safely through the war, for the sun to gleam again off the great spike of minas tirith - it has come true. he only wishes his brother could have lived to see it. but his father - if he had lived he would be appalled, by the gondor he would see. his house reduced to the hand of a king he never would’ve accepted, who had ended one war and promptly begun another. his son may have lived but he has defied his father’s wishes one last time, accepting the return of the king. for faramir at least right after the war everything he has ever dreamt of is coming true. minas tirith a queen among queens, with a king he sees as wise and true and worthy of his rule. his sacrifices have been worth it at last. but he Knows that to the man himself his father’s sacrifices would not have been. boromir died with some hope. his father died with none. he wishes he could think that his father may have died in despair but gods-willing, might look down upon the world and be at peace. maybe he is - faramir will never know. (there are many parts of his father’s mind that he had never had the time or the will or enough of a relationship with him to understand, and now he never will). but he does not think so. and for that he pities him, and knows that his father would hate it, and yet cannot stop himself from feeling it. it’s only one part of the incredibly complicated mess of emotions that i’m sure faramir feels whenever he considers his father but i simply think that it is there and denethor would’ve absolutely despised it and ohhh god the tragedy continues even after the relationship is over and gone and irreparable!

#.txt #this gets a little poorly worded towards the end i couldn’t quite work it out. but. Augh #i had this thought and stood in the middle of my bedroom staring into space for five minutes attempting to word it #and then spent 40 minutes writing this post and am now late to where i’m supposed to be. Well. #making myself a Keep Honking I’m Crying About Denethor II Twenty Sixth Steward Of Gondor bumper sticker #for the car that i do not own #anyway. i believe this so fervently. #the tragedy continuing on because faramir lives to continue it. even though he will never get to reconcile anything with denethor #he lives and so denethor lives on with him. jesus christ that makes me feel crazy. genuine shrimp emotions out here #Happy Saturday I’m On My Bullshit Again #denethorposting #faramir

[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

[the-writing-warg]

The Wild Kine of Araw

Genus : bovine

Name meaning : wild ox of Oromë

History : Legends claimed they were descendants from Oromë's personal herd of cattle, so they were named Kine of Araw (Araw being the sindarin form of Oromë). They were the quarry of Vorondil the hunter, an ancestor of the ruling stewards of Gondor, and it was he who cut the horn from a kine and made the Great horn out of it, that would later be used by Boromir before his death.

Description : They're barely described at all, save for a brief mention of 'wild white kine' in the appendices of the Lord of the rings, which seems to hint that eventually the Kine of Araw in middle Earth became a sub-species found only "near the Sea of Rhûn" as opposed to being pure Kine of Araw. Which is also supported by the consistent use of the phrase 'wild kine/ox' when describing the history of Boromir's horn. They're also said to be hardier and wilder than any other species of ox in middle Earth.

Influences : In an unpublished manuscript in the Bodleian library, tolkien likens the wild kine to aurochs, an extinct wild ox species that domestic cattle stem from.

Similar species to use as a reference :

Aurochs

"These are a little below the elephant in size, and of the appearance, color, and shape of a bull. Their strength and speed are extraordinary; they spare neither man nor wild beast which they have espied. These the Germans take with much pains in pits and kill them. The young men harden themselves with this exercise and practice themselves in this sort of hunting, and those who have slain the greatest number of them, having produced the horns in public, to serve as evidence, receive great praise." - Julius Caesar describing aurochs in his History of the Gallic War.

Since aurochs had been extinct at the time tolkien lived and so little is mentioned about the wild Kine of Araw, its impossible to know how closely tolkien imagined the two species to look, however there are a number of breeds that still exist today that have similar colouring, confirmation and behaviour to both aurochs and wild kine of Araw.

Pajuna cattle

The closest living relative to aurochs in the world, certain lineages are thought to share similar colours and markings with the aurochs and they share the same forward facing horns. They're extremely hardy cattle that have adapted to harsh living conditions.

Heck cattle

Bred by Heinz and Lutz Heck to be a modern auroch in the 1920s - 1930s, they naturally share alot of traits with the aurochs, they are one of the largest breeds in the world and are extremely aggressive, but they are still smaller than an actual auroch

Indian Gaur

One of the largest and most aggressive breeds of wild cattle, if left undisturbed they are more wary of humans but when in regular / semi-regular contact with humans they become aggressive. They've been known to charge without provocation, kill domestic cattle in fights and there's even been reports of them killing tigers.

Chianina

The largest breed of cow in the world, and is also white which technically makes them closer to the canonical description of the wild kine of Araw than others mentioned. They are more docile than the others on this list, due to working closely with humans and being bred for farm work (pulling carts, ploughing etc)

This post (and maybe more like this in the future) was inspired by @outofangband 's amazing posts on the flora , fauna and general environments of Arda, please go check out their posts if you like this sort of thing.

#wild kine #kine of araw #tolkien #tolkien legendarium #the hobbit #hobbit #lotr #boromir #stewards of gondor #steward of gondor #Vorondil #vorondil the hunter #silmarillion #Boromir's horn #boromir son of denethor #wild white kine #oromë #araw #ecology of middle earth #world building #fauna of middle earth

[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

[bilbo-babe]

#Faramir #David Wenham #LotR Trilogy #Captain of the Rangers of Ithilien #Steward to the King of Gondor #Lord of Emyn Arnen #Prince of Ithilien

[lesbiansforboromir]

Listen, I am an Isildur apologist alright? Long before RoP I was an Isildur apologist, partly perhaps because PJ decided to make him far more culpable in the whole ring fiasco than he was, and far more cowardly too. BUT!! Listen... with my denethorification beam pointed so directly on Anarion, it does ricochet into an Aragornification beam and hit Isildur so I have to say like... Aragorn left Denethor and Gondor suddenly and in the midst of it's darkest time yet, he abandoned the people he wished one day to rule and personally abandoned Denethor to that thankless hopeless vigilant war alone... AND SO DID ISILDUR TO ANARION!!! Minas Ithil was attacked and Isildur abandoned the place, got into a ship and fled down the Anduin with his family. And he didn't go to Osgiliath, he didn't sail to Anarion's side, he left!! He went north to his father (just as Aragorn went north) and he left Anarion to a two year siege!! Alone! Maybe they talked, maybe Anarion told him to go, maybe it was the plan all along but there is nothing to tell us that and the bare facts are that Isildur left whilst Anarion stayed, he is the one who stayed!! UNTIL THE (second) KING COMES AGAIN!! Denethor is Anarion Denethor is Anarion the House of the Stewards is not just the inheritor of the blood of Anarion but also his SPIRIT, it is the ESSENCE of his effect upon Gondor reborn into both a political position AND the men that hold it!! THEY SIT THERE A SHIELD AGAINST MORDOR yells!!

#anarion #denethor #the stewards #tolkien #gondor #isildur #erran vs tolkien #text post #lotr #lord of the rings

[goldandlights]

*breathes unsteadily in gay!Faramir afraid of what will happen when rumors of his preferences reach the new King*

#not realising #for all his scholarly pursuits #that gondor is the odd-one-out with its extreme puritan views on gender/sexuality #and archaic punishments #we blame Denethor #two of Eomers guards kiss in celebration during Aragorns coronation feast #Faramir is just about ready to throw himself at his new Kings feet and beg for mercy in their stead #Aragorn and Arwen are very confused by his steward's sudden distress #thoughts