Rembrethil
Dor-Lomin
Dec 13 2013, 5:03pm
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Well there's pacifists and then there's pacifists
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I don't really see Faramir as a pacifist, not an absolute one anyway. He will fight, but he doesn't want to for for fighting's sake.
I suppose I am a little biased. When I think of pacifists, I think of Neville Chamberlain and 'peace at any price'.
I would use Faramir's quote,' I love those things that they defend.' He disliked fighting, but he would( And was quite good at it!!) when there was no other choice. It all plays into the aspect of wisdom. In the words of Movie-Gandalf, 'True courage is knowing, not when to take a life, but when to spare one.' There is a time to take a life, but the true courage tells you when enough is enough.
I like to think of the Mirkwood Elves. They would have been wiser, some would have said, to have killed him, but their pity stopped them. It could be said that their pity was misplaced and wasted, but in the end it repaid itself.
Call me Rem, and remember, not all who ramble are lost...Uh...where was I?
(This post was edited by Rembrethil on Dec 13 2013, 5:03pm)
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