THIS IS NOT A REAL CHAPTER
What you are about to read is a prologue which you don't need to read at all, but which I felt like posting for clarification's sake. The real first chapter will be up soon.
Faramir. Son of Denethor, Brother of Boromir, Steward of Gondor.
Faramir. Son of a Madman, Brother of a Dead Man, Steward of a Lost City.
Faramir. Son of an uncaring father, brother of a perfect son, steward of a city that didn't need him. Husband of a wife that had affairs with a Prince and was sister a brother with a temper.
Faramir. The man that lost everything to keep everyone happy. Everyone but himself.
These and more are the qualities of Faramir. This is the story of Faramir, from childhood to adulthood. How he grew up and died, little by little, in the arms of those who loved him, minds of those who didn't know him, and eyes of the rest who hated him.
An expansion of the story of my favorite character in Lord of the Rings.
… Now that I'm done with my dramatic rant, I'll actually explain what this is all about. In LotR, Faramir is never characterized very well. We don't know anything about his past except that his mom dies when he was little and his father loved Boromir more than him. Perfect angst.
Of course, this will include a lot more that pure angst. It will have (or rather I'll try to make it have) some comedy, a lot of romance (probably slash as well as het), drama (snorts… not that I can write it) and generally a well-balanced story. I plan this to be my personal epic, spanning many chapters and staying true to the book. The BOOK mind you, not the movie (although there will be rare times that I stray to the movie version).
Of course it is completely made up. As I said before, we don't know any of Faramir's anything. So I'll be taking full advantage of that fact.
And as much as I love and admire it, I do not own, and never will own, "Lord of the Rings". I don't care what anyone says or what legalities dictate… it belongs to the genius John Ronald Raoul Tolkien. No movie company, no son, no one but the author.
As many people know, I have no self-confidence. Flames make me cry (seriously) and reviews make me smile for hours. So please review if you want me to write the story! 'Cause if you don't I automatically assume that it's shit.
The rating is just to be safe and to cover several angsty chapters (that aren't even planned out yet).
Now that I completely bored you so that you don't want to read the story any more, I'm going to stop writing. Yep- you read through all that for nothing. I warned you, didn't I? The story will start next chapter, which will probably be up today, tomorrow at the latest. Hehehe… But guess what? No rants anymore! Only endnotes, if that. Isn't that exiting?
Hope you read and like and review the story!