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Originally Posted by Morthoron
I don't think Aragorn should have had a beard, canonically speaking, and I would have preferred a casting along the lines of T.H. White's Lancelot: not at all good-looking in a conventional manner, but hard and weatherbeaten (a Ranger spends most of his time in the elements, after all, and not in a salon).
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The beard bothered me too. I actually prefer the John Hurt-voiced version in
Bakshi's film, though he looks rather Amerindian to me there.
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Originally Posted by Morthoron
One of several miscasts, particularly Theoden and Denethor, both of whom did not appear as Tolkien described.
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Agreed on both. The "healed" Théoden doesn't look old enough, and Denethor reminds me of Rowling's Argus Filch. Ah! So
that's Denethor's problem: he's a Squib!
