The Return of the King had truly begun. Would you like a continuation focusing on Aragorn’s coronation, the farewell to the Hobbits, or the journey of the Elves to the Grey Havens?
Outside, the sun finally broke through the ash clouds. The great bell of the Tower of Ecthelion began to toll—not in mourning, but in hope. And on the high balcony of the White Tower, a banner unfurled for the first time in a thousand years: the Tree and the Stars of the House of Elendil, and beneath them, the Seven Stars and the White Crown.
“My Lord Faramir,” Aragorn said, kneeling beside the cot. “You should not rise.” El Senor de Los Anillos - El Retorno Del Rey Ed...
A soft knock came. The door opened.
“You would keep me as Steward?” Faramir asked, his voice trembling. The Return of the King had truly begun
The black gates of Mordor had fallen. The Eye was no more. A pale, sickly dawn crept over the Pelennor Fields, where the grass was still wet with the blood of Men and Orcs. Smoke rose from the wreckage of siege towers, and the Great Eagles circled the jagged peak of Orodruin, where the Ring had been unmade.
Faramir, Steward of Gondor, lay on a white cot. His hand, still bandaged from the arrow that had struck him in the retreat from Osgiliath, rested on the blanket. Beside him, Éowyn of Rohan, the White Lady of Ithilien, slept in a chair, her golden hair tangled with dried blood—not her own, but the Witch-king’s. The great bell of the Tower of Ecthelion
Faramir tried to laugh, but it turned into a cough. “Steward? My lord, the Stewards were only ever caretakers until the King returned. You are here. The line of Elendil is restored. I am nothing now but a wounded soldier.”
Aragorn placed a hand on Faramir’s shoulder. “In the old days, the Steward of Gondor was the King’s chief counselor, the warden of the citadel, the voice of the people when the King’s ear was turned to war. I have spent my life fighting. I know little of peacetime. Will you teach me?”
Gandalf stepped forward, his eyes kind but sharp. “Not nothing, Faramir. The Steward is not a throne. It is a duty. And Aragorn does not come to cast you aside. He comes to ask you a question.”
“Your father is beyond grief now,” Aragorn said softly. “But Gondor still stands. And it needs its Steward.”