For the Shire: Coming Home Through Tolkien, Tarot and Jung2 Jun 2024

Faramir: Steward of Ancestry

"... modest, fair-minded and scrupulously just, and very merciful"... I am sure I did not invent him. I did not even want him, though I like him". Tolkien on Faramir

Faramir emerges suddenly from the shadows of Ithilien towards the latter part of The Two Towers. We've never before heard of him by name, have had no warning of his presence running up to this moment and in some ways... he serves little narrative purpose.

Or does he? In this episode, we explore Faramir as an expression of unconscious energy itself. A bridge between worlds. The steward of an ancestry that encompasses the promised strength of the world of men. And though it is Aragorn who returns to the throne of that world, it is Faramir who steps aside to place him there.

Perhaps stepping aside for what is good and just is the strongest thing any of us can do.

"For myself, I would see the White Tree in flower again in the courts of the kings, and the Silver Crown return, and Minas Tirith in peace."

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Co-hosted by Molly Davis and Libby Rose Waite.

Music by Steve Ernenwein, host and composter for The Dreams that Shape Us Podcast:

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