Elven Blood in Faramir and Boromir
 

I apologise if this seems ludicris but it has been crawling its way under my skin for a long time (or...whatever a wight has that passes for skin anyway).

This started when I was reading 'Narn i hin Hurin' and looked up Findiulas in the appendix because I remembered that Finduilas was the name of Boromir and Faramir's mother.

The mantle of course is the one that Faramir gave to Eowyn.

The next thing that caught my attention was...

and that got my mind going to the point that I remembered Finduilas of Amroth. Looking in the Appendix of Unfinished tales I found...

With Directly under it...

In this search I once again turned to The Lord of the Rings recalling a quote about Imrahil...

Thus concluding that Faramir and Boromir as Imrahil's father's sister's sons they also must have Elven blood in them.

It is quite true that there was a strain of Elven blood in the line of Imrahil and Findulis for they descended from Galador twenty-one generations before. Galador was half-Elven; his father being Imrazôr the Númenórean & his mother being the elf Mithrellas. Of course this is only legend that is passed down in the house of Dol Amroth.

I got the above information from the Encyclopedia of Arda website.

Okay, I just got done with a really deep conversation in another thread, so I think I'm allowed a little nonsense post. But that is cool BEANS! I had no idea about Faramir and Boromir having elvish blood. That is so spiffy. Man, I'm learning new stuff, and I'm not even in school.

-'Vana

This has been covered before here.

Hey thanks Legolas, didn't see that one