{"id":43483,"date":"2025-12-04T22:03:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T09:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=43483"},"modified":"2025-12-04T23:22:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T10:22:02","slug":"new-on-supernatural-underground-11-in-the-leadership-series-faramir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2025\/12\/04\/new-on-supernatural-underground-11-in-the-leadership-series-faramir\/","title":{"rendered":"New on Supernatural Underground: #11 in the Leadership Series  &#8211; Faramir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yep, the 2nd of the month has rolled around already, so I have my final-for-2025 post, and 11th in the Great Leaders of Speculative series up on the <a href=\"https:\/\/supernaturalunderground.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Supernatural Underground.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39734\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Supelogo_2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now, I was trying really hard not to go with <em>The Lord of the Rings<\/em> this time, and I <em>have<\/em> gotten to my very last post before giving in.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40453\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Lord-of-the-Rings_Single-Edition.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"181\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Lord-of-the-Rings_Single-Edition.jpg 181w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Lord-of-the-Rings_Single-Edition-98x150.jpg 98w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 181px) 100vw, 181px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So why give in at all? Well, for one: <em>The Lord of the Rings &#8212; <\/em>just so many great characters! Plus, I wanted to choose a leader that would make the post easy to write because of being super busy right now. Last, but not least, Faramir in the book trilogy (not so much the movies, alas) is absolutely one of my favourite characters and definitely one with great leadership chops.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_43486\" style=\"width: 216px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43486\" class=\"size-full wp-image-43486\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Faramir_ranger.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Faramir_ranger.jpg 206w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Faramir_ranger-126x150.jpg 126w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-43486\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Movies Faramir<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So for all these excellent reasons, I just couldna go past him. To find out <em>why<\/em> I think Faramir (books Faramir!) merits the &#8216;great leader&#8217; sticker click on:<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/supernaturalunderground.blogspot.com\/2025\/12\/great-leaders-in-speculative-fiction-11.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Great Leaders in Speculative Fiction #11: Faramir in The Lord of the Rings<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_43487\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43487\" class=\"wp-image-43487 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Two-Towers-300x143.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Two-Towers-300x143.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Two-Towers-150x72.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Two-Towers.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-43487\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The &#8216;classic&#8217; covers<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yep, the 2nd of the month has rolled around already, so I have my final-for-2025 post, and 11th in the Great Leaders of Speculative series up on the Supernatural Underground. Now, I was trying really hard not to go with The Lord of the Rings this time, and I have gotten to my very last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-supernatural-underground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43483","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=43483"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43490,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43483\/revisions\/43490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}