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Day 342: The truth shall make you free
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dkpalaska left a comment that I'm not quite sure I agree that Faramir the scholar would be so blithe about known historical inaccuracies. Do you think he would at least have the "other perspective" written down? For really, the so-called inaccuracies are not always "untruths", but often merely the product of different perspectives and worldviews.
(Which was exactly the point I was trying to get across - that the Hobbits' account wasn't "wrong", but perhaps misunderstood or misrepresented certain things because they were Hobbits and not Men.)
as part of the series As seen by the Little People.
Day 342
The truth shall make you free
Faramir stared at the blank parchment in irritation. He felt as slow-witted as that schoolboy long ago struggling to write an essay on the causes of the Kin-strife. Yet how to speak of events that he could scarcely be said to have witnessed, even though he had been present, and which still caused him pain after more than half a century?
Begin with what he did see. Pippin had told his tale with an imperfect knowledge of Men and the Lords of Men, and understandable anger. Faramir would give an account tempered by greater familiarity, and love – and hard-won forgiveness.
dkpalaska left a comment that I'm not quite sure I agree that Faramir the scholar would be so blithe about known historical inaccuracies. Do you think he would at least have the "other perspective" written down? For really, the so-called inaccuracies are not always "untruths", but often merely the product of different perspectives and worldviews.(Which was exactly the point I was trying to get across - that the Hobbits' account wasn't "wrong", but perhaps misunderstood or misrepresented certain things because they were Hobbits and not Men.)
as part of the series As seen by the Little People.Day 342
The truth shall make you free
Faramir stared at the blank parchment in irritation. He felt as slow-witted as that schoolboy long ago struggling to write an essay on the causes of the Kin-strife. Yet how to speak of events that he could scarcely be said to have witnessed, even though he had been present, and which still caused him pain after more than half a century?
Begin with what he did see. Pippin had told his tale with an imperfect knowledge of Men and the Lords of Men, and understandable anger. Faramir would give an account tempered by greater familiarity, and love – and hard-won forgiveness.
