LOTR: Could Faramir Have Been As Good A Ruler As Aragorn?

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In The Lord of the Rings, Gondor has long fallen into ruin and disrepair under the rule of the Stewards. A once noble, but too proud line, full of all the follies displayed by Denethor himself, the Stewards lacked the necessary substance to govern such a mighty city of men. Minas Tirith was one of the greatest stronghold of the Numenorians after all, and the Numenorians were the finest of men to have ever lived in Middle Earth. It is their blood, their fire, their spirit, that is needed to keep Minas Tirith alive to its fullest extent, and the further from the Numenorians it fell, the more doomed the city became.

That is until Aragorn, the last in the long line of descendants of those original legendary peoples, rose to claim his rightful place on the throne of Gondor. By using the ancient healing arts of the kings to save those wounded who lay in the houses of healing, by wielding the sword that cut the ring from Sauron’s finger, and most of all by being loyal and true in the War of the Ring, Aragorn proved himself to be a worthy ruler. And he then ushered in an unheard-of era of peace for all the surrounding kingdoms as well as his own, by working in alliance with Eomer of Rohan, and the hobbits of The Shire.

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But if Aragorn had never risen to claim the throne, or if he had tragically fallen in battle before he was able to lift Minas Tirith back to the heights of greatness, is there another who could have ruled in his stead, and been the great leader that the people so desperately needed? In theory, if the throne had never come to Aragorn, then it would have gone to Faramir, the last remaining heir of Denethor the Steward, after his older brother Boromir