"My friends, you bow to no one"

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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).

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.

Originally Posted by Morthoron

One of several miscasts, particularly Theoden and Denethor, both of whom did not appear as Tolkien described.

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!

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This RotK scene was one of the few in PJ's trilogy that was emotive. Another was Boromir's death.

Sadly there wasn't much between them.