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Originally Posted by William Cloud Hicklin
Tolkien makes a point of telling us that Boromir's hair was "shorn about his shoulders," but mentions no facial hair; Wizards, Theoden, Beorn and all Dwarves (and Cirdan!) are expressly bearded, but elsewhere he is silent and, just maybe, we can "read" that silence.
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In the
LOTR Prologue, it is noted that among the distinctions of the Hobbits in the Eastfarthing was that
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...they were well known to be Stoors in a large part of their blood, as indeed was shown by the down that many grew on their chins. No Harfoot or Fallohide had any trace of a beard.
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The Stoors being the most "mannish" of the Hobbits, would that presuppose a general beardedness of Men, at least those of non-Númenórean descent?
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Originally Posted by William Cloud Hicklin
(Query- how did Aragorn out in the wild for months on end maintain that 7 days' growth look?)
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You only
think that was hair. Strider just didn't wash up very much.
