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Returning - Stealing Beauty Challenge

Apr 05, 2010 17:20

Title: Returning
Author: Wormwood_7
Character: Miraculously alive Boromir
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Disclaimer: These characters belong to Tolkien. I make no money from this.

Returning

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author: wormwood_7, character: boromir, challenge: movies2010: stealing beauty

Comments 11

just_ann_now April 11 2010, 19:49:30 UTC

There was always a space however, between him and those he touched, between him and the City. Its beauty somehow always out of reach...stolen from between his fingers.

I really like this; the idea of the space between him and everyone around him as he learns to deal with his new perceptions of the world and his place within it. A bit of guilt, a bit of PTSD, a bit of confusion over a world in which warriors perhaps don't have quite the place they had before. Of course he's confused over where he will fit in. Very thoughtfully written as well as thought-provoking.

wormwood_7 April 14 2010, 14:48:40 UTC

Sorry for taking so long to answer your comment. I have been out of Internet reach for a week.

Thank you for your lovely comment. You picked up so much of what I wanted to express.

a bit of confusion over a world in which warriors perhaps don't have quite the place they had before
Yes, Boromir is a litte like any returned soldier. The actual physical homecoming is only a small part of the coming back; to a world very different from the one he left.
Thank you for reading!