Title – Banks of Green Willow

Author: Linda Hoyland
Characters/Pairing: Faramir

Rating: PG
Warnings: none
Book/Source: LOTR book-verse

Disclaimer: The characters are the property of the Tolkien estate. This drabble is written for pleasure, not profit.
With grateful thanks to Raksha

Every year Faramir returned to honour those who fell at Osgiliath.

It was hard today to imagine that so many lives had been lost at this now peaceful spot

The willows grew green and fresh on both sides of the Anduin, their long branches seeking the river, offering shade from the summer heat.

How apt, Faramir thought, that weeping willows should grow here, to forever mourn the flower of Gondor who were slaughtered there. Only the memories remained: vivid and unsullied as the living trees.

A/n. Written for the "Willow" Challenge at Tolkien Weekly.