Hello, and welcome to the NataCast podcast, the podcast that usually goes through a Song of Ice and Fire,

one chapter a week, but not here. I'm one of your hosts Emmett, also known as Poor Quentin. My co-host

Jeff, also known as Brendan Beefish, is taking a couple of months off the podcast for work.

Soon as he's back, we'll resume the weekly Song of Ice and Fire podcast with Sansa's third chapter in a Storm of Swords. While Jeff's away, I'm picking up right where I left

off with J.R.R. Tolkien's, the Lord of the Rings. Last week, we began, Book 4, Chapter 5 of the Lord

of the Rings, The Window on the West, with Fairmir putting Frodo on trial before deciding to take him along to his hideout,

and this week we're wrapping up Book 4 Chapter 5 of the Lord of the Rings, The Window on the West.

We left off with Fairmir giving weight to his emotions regarding the death of his brother Boromir.

But his attitude and approach changes on a dime once he gets the hobbits alone.

He says that he only turned the conversation to Boromir to distract his men from Frodo's secrets regarding Isildor's Bain.

We thought he had exposed his emotions, his real self, but that too was a calculation to avoid giving away the secret in front of his men.

That's how cunning Faramir is. He can use his genuine emotions as a

smokescreen rather than just giving full vent to them as Boromir did. Tolkien describes Faramir

this way. He had been accustomed to giving way and not giving his own opinions air, while retaining

a power of command among men. Faramir says that Frodo was just not honest with him.

Frodo responds that he told no lies, and all the truth he could.

I didn't perjure myself. It's a delicate dance.

But the omissions were revealing for Faramere.

He could tell from Frodo's pauses and evasions that they did not part well from Boromir.

Faramir says that he loved his brother, but also knew him.

A simple statement that says so much.

His heart tells him one thing, but his mind another, and he will not allow his emotions to

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