Day 50: 'Tis better to give than to receive

[tanaquiljall]

paranoidangel42 asked a long time ago (like two birthday's ago!) for a conversation between Aragorn and Faramir. (Don't worry, I did write a couple of her other prompts for that birthday.)

Anyway, I seem to have those darn books from the dowry on the brain, so this is a follow up to Treasure and Worth the 'sacrifice'.

as part of the A Little Knowledge Can Be A Dangerous Thing series.

Day 50

'Tis better to give than to receive

"Sire, it is a generous gesture, but I surely cannot accept. The expense is too great for the royal coffers, and Ithilien does not deserve such favour over other fiefs." Faramir stared at the volumes with a mixture of desire and distress.

Aragorn shrugged. "The work is already half complete. Besides," he laid a hand on Faramir's arm, "if you accept, it is I who am favoured with a gift." Seeing Faramir's puzzled frown, he smiled. "I find an excuse to divert funds from a royal wardrobe already too rich with more uncomfortable clothes than a man could ever need."

Comments

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

Amusing and delightful.You capture the characters well.

[tanaquiljall]

Thanks, Linda. {{{hugs}}}

[rakshathedemon.livejournal.com]

Squeee! Squeeeeee! And Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

There you go; triple-SQUEE.

Take the books, Faramir; you know you want to. It isn't nice to refuse a kingly gift so generously offered at the cost of such sacrifice.

And so begins Faramir's endeavor to build the first Library in Emyn Arnen (from which may well eventually come that College or University).

[rakshathedemon.livejournal.com]

Well, I meant to say, so could begin Faramir's building a Library; the books could give him that idea; though he'll keep some for his own shelves, he'd want to create a place where they could be preserved, and start some culture growing away from Minas Tirith.

I imagine that Faramir will ask that some books go to the Library/Archives in Minas Tirith. One of the things I see him doing as Steward is overseeing, or starting, renovation and expansion of the Library and Archives that were so important to him as a boy and to the history of Gondor.

[tanaquiljall]

Thanks for the triple squee, Raksha! {{{hugs}}}

Actually, I was seeing the originals that Elrond provided staying in the Library/Archives in Minas Tirith, with multiple copies of specific useful volumes (maps? histories? herb-lore?) being sent out as public resources. What Faramir is being given - copies of all the books - is for Ithilien as a fiefdom, rather than his personal library, although I suspect in the early years they would be one and the same!

I do agree on Faramir both developing culture away from Minas Tirith (Dol Amroth probably has an excellent library/archive too that he would have seen as a young man!) and enhancing the library/archive in Minas Tirith. *g*

[tianaluthien.livejournal.com]

*SQUEES*

ooooh, I love it! I love reading your Faramir and Aragorn; you do such a wonderful job of capturing them!

[tanaquiljall]

Thanks Ti. *blushes* Glad you like the way I write Faramir and Aragorn.

[paranoidangel]

And there I was, thinking he was being magnanimous :)

paranoidangel42 asked a long time ago (like two birthday's ago!) for a conversation between Aragorn and Faramir.

You obviously have a better memory than me because I don't remember that at all!

[tanaquiljall]

And there I was, thinking he was being magnanimous :)

Heheheheh... taking advantage of an opportunity, perhaps... ;)

You obviously have a better memory than me because I don't remember that at all!

I remembered you gave me some prompts I didn't write, so I went and found them and put them on my drabble list... ;)