[Guinevere]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>I did notice the change of hair, but I was so revolted by the character changes that was the least of my grievances. <BR> <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>I felt exactly the same way! <BR>Anyhow, Boromir's hair colour was wrong as well, but I forgave that soon, because Sean Bean is such a marvellous actor and played Boromir totally convincing.<P>In the books, <B>both</B> Boromir and Faramir have dark hair!<BR>Description of Boromir at the council of Elrond: <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>a tall man with a fair and noble face, dark-haired and grey-eyed, proud and stern of glance. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> <BR>And when they laid him in the funeral boat: <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>they combed his long dark hair and arrayed it upon his shoulders <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>I get the impression, that <B>all</B> the Dúnedain were generally dark-haired.<P>Faramir's rangers are so described: <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Frodo saw that they were goodly men, pale skinned, dark of hair, with grey eyes and faces sad and proud <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>The same with Aragorn: <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>so high and glad of face, kingly, lord of Men, dark haired with eyes of grey.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> <BR>Viggo is superb as Aragorn, but sometimes I'm a bit disturbed by his nearly invisible eyebrows!! <P>I think, dark hair, pale skin and "sea-grey " eyes was Tolkien's private ideal of beauty and nobility! The Eldar are equally described (except "in the golden house of Finarfin")<P>As for David Wenham, well it's not his fault,but I just cannot accept him as Faramir. I had such a fixed image of him in my mind, probably been looking too often at Anke Eiszmann's Faramir-paintings...<BR><A HREF="http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/loth/a/n/anke/faramir_drawing_elf.jpg.html" TARGET=_blank>Faramir</A> That is the <B>real</B> Faramir for me, the one that I love!<p>[ 4:49 AM December 17, 2003: Message edited by: Guinevere ]