A/N: This one's about Faramir. Please review. Thanks!

Shadows (Faramir)

He has always been overshadowed.
As a son, he is overshadowed by Boromir, the older brother, the hero, the firstborn son.
As a man, he is overshadowed by Mordor, casting it's threat across all of Gondor and onward.
And as a Gondorian, he is overshadowed by his father's madness, a rapidly increasing threat to the people.
These shadows line his face with worries, and cast his future into doubt. He does not know what will come to him, or his people. He worries. He takes the weight that he now sees that Boromir always carried and places it on his shoulders, and he refuses to allow his shoulders to sag in the least.
Perhaps now, when the people of Middle Earth are being doused like fire underwater, he can step out of the shadow in time for a glorious ride to ruin.
He has always been overshadowed.