King and Steward
| Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | King and Steward |
| Author(s): | Linda Hoyland |
| Date(s): | 2004– |
| Length: | |
| Genre(s): | |
| Fandom(s): | The Lord of the Rings |
| Relationship(s): | |
| External Links: | Linda's Lord of the Rings Fanfiction (archived version) |
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King and Steward is a fanfiction series in the The Lord of the Rings fandom written by Linda Hoyland. The stories focus on Aragorn and Faramir, starting with their first meeting during the War of the Ring. Slowly, a deep friendship develops between the king (Aragorn) and his steward (Faramir).
Linda started the series in 2004 and is still constantly adding to it. The series has no consistent name, on some profile pages it is simply listed as series[1] while on others it is called King and Steward[2] or The Steward and the King.[3]
Stories
The stories listed below are the main corpus of the series insofar as one follows chronologically after the other. They sometimes share original characters and refer back to one another.
- Star of Hope
- Second Son
- The Slave of the Ring
- Comes the Moment to Decide
- First Meeting
- Facing the Darkness
- The Hidden Days of Healing
- A New Beginning
- The White Tree
- Night of Love
- Shadow and Thought
- Burden of Guilt
- Web of Treason
- A Time to Reap
- At the Rising of the Moon
- The Spirit of Gondor
- Dies Irae
- Waters of Life
- In My End is My Beginning
Apart from the major stories of this series, which are usually set at a definite time and place, there are also short stories that fit into the series without this fact necessarily being voiced. You can read these stories on their own and they won't give you necessary information you will need to understand later stories of the series. The following stories fit the criteria and are sometimes labeled by Linda Hoyland as belonging to King and Steward.
- His Father's Son
- A Light From The Shadow Shall Spring
- A Taste of Honey
- Behold the King
- Impressions
- Mask of Virtue
- Shadows of Memory
- Tales of Telcontar
- Alphabet of Arda
- Healing the Healer
- A Night of Storms
- Coastal Tales
- Out of the Depths
- You've Got To Be Carefully Taught
References
- ^ See her ffnet profile, accessed July 31, 2009.
- ^ It is listed as King and Steward on Naice a Nilme, accessed July 31, 2009.
- ^ On Lord of the Rings Fanfiction it is called The Steward and the King, accessed July 31, 2009.