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So in the Two Towers Faramir shows to Frodo and Sam the "Standing Silence", a custom of the Rangers of Ithilien (I assume all the Dúnedain of Gondor do this as well). They stand and look towards the west in silence before a meal.
As Faramir says in the book "[...] we look towards Númenor that...