Board Thread:Fan Fiction/@comment-26295802-20170419165122/@comment-26295802-20170420004844

The Morgul Lord wrote: This was amazing. It gave a different perspective on the post-war world of Gondor. That is well, for that was my purpose in writing it.

I was reading a biography on Ulysses S. Grant, and how he had similar feelings after The Civil War. He felt completely at home on the battlefield and he felt, right or wrong, like commanding armies was his sole calling in life. So when The Civil War ended he felt completely lost, because the war, as hellish as it was, was his purpose, his livelihood.

It occured to me that Imrahil would probably be the same way. After all, Imrahil was the sole heir to the most powerful fiefdom in Gondor, raised from birth with a sword in his hand. From his point of view, the war had been going on forever, and would probably continue long past his death. Fighting and war came as naturally to him as walking and breathing.

So I imagine that Imrahil, like Grant, would feel rather lost when the battlefield, the only place where he truly excelled, was taken from him forever.