{"id":43454,"date":"2025-11-17T06:30:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T17:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=43454"},"modified":"2025-11-16T21:51:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T08:51:46","slug":"a-lord-of-the-rings-quote-from-faramir-in-the-two-towers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2025\/11\/17\/a-lord-of-the-rings-quote-from-faramir-in-the-two-towers\/","title":{"rendered":"A &#8220;Lord Of The Rings&#8221; Quote &#8212; from Faramir, in &#8220;The Two Towers&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>&#8220;<span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend<\/span>&#8220;<\/h3>\n<p>~ Faramir, in JRR Tolkien&#8217;s <em><strong>The Two Towers\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6682\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/The_Two_Towers_Tolkien.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/The_Two_Towers_Tolkien.jpg 170w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/The_Two_Towers_Tolkien-92x150.jpg 92w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 170px) 100vw, 170px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Faramir is one of my favourite characters in <strong><em>The Lord of the Rings<\/em><\/strong> books (I was less keen on his movie depiction), and I&#8217;ve always liked this quote, hence sharing it with you today &#8212; while I gambaru on with that WALL series revision. Onward!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-43455\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/The-Two-Towers-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/The-Two-Towers-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/The-Two-Towers-97x150.jpg 97w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/The-Two-Towers.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend&#8220; ~ Faramir, in JRR Tolkien&#8217;s The Two Towers\u00a0 Faramir is one of my favourite characters in The Lord of the Rings books (I was less keen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,19,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-epicfantasy","category-funstuff","category-other-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43454"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43457,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43454\/revisions\/43457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}