Men of Númenor - headcanon
Headcanon that Faramir looks a lot like Isildur, to the point where Elrond, arriving in Minas Tirith for his daughter’s wedding, has to do a double take upon meeting him for the first time.
And there’s the parallel between the two of them: both had the chance to take the Ring when it mattered the most. One took it, the other didn’t.
Faramir dreams of the Fall of Númenor, Isildur survived it. Faramir ends up ruling Ithilien, the land of the moon, perhaps named after Isildur himself (Elendil was such a dork he literally named his sons after the sun and the moon).
Aragorn might be Isildur’s heir, but Faramir is the man Isildur should have been.
But just…imagine Faramir, the scholar, going up to Elrond like ‘hey! You’re like…one of my favorite people ever’ and Elrond just jumps out of his fucking skin.
Their grandchildren laugh about it at feasts.
But also, imagine:
- Elrond correcting Faramir’s view of certain historical events because “I was there when it happened and it certainly didn’t happen that way; that’s just [insert historian]’s anti-Fëanorian agenda showing”
- Faramir and Elrond writing each other letters afterwards, discussing the relative merits of this or that account of the First and Second Ages, or of a certain philosopher’s works
- Faramir grieving when Elrond goes west across the sea only one year later, but then he starts badgering Arwen with all his historical questions
- Elrond leaving most of his private book collection to Faramir
- Eowyn sighing in exasperation when Faramir receives the books and proceeds to lock himself in his room until he has read all of them