This terzanelle deals with Denethor's feelings for the ceremony and obligations of a steward who has had no king to serve for almost a thousand years.

I have such a strong symbolic image of the oil / chrism used for such annointings and I wanted to contrast it with the oil spilled on his pyre in his later madness, but oil as an image is changed in our modern mind, and it got too...

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