[Luthien_ Tinuviel]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>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")<BR> <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>So it would seem. The thing is, though, this is rather uncommon, especially in America. I usually imagine a lot of people with brown eyes, just to differentiate between the grey-eyed ones. Because grey eyes really aren't all that common. Many more people have blue than grey.<P> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> So the question is... why is Faramir different?<BR> <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>I don't know. I think it's partially because he isn't really described at all until we're already well-acquainted with him, and for some reason, he seems to be more of a light-brown-hair person (Do you ever notice that lots of people have similar opinions on a character's appearance, even if it's never described? Either authors slip in little inconspicuous descriptions that no one notices, or else we all just create an appearance for the character based on their personality and integrity, and somehow we all have similar ways of doing that.)