#even setting aside questions of ethnic diversity any visual adaptation HAS to break with the book descriptions because it would be

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tolkien i love you but if you describe one more character as dark haired pale skinned and grey eyed

#even setting aside questions of ethnic diversity any visual adaptation HAS to break with the book descriptions because it would be #so damn BORING otherwise like you CANNOT have every single character either be black hair grey eyes or blond hair blue eyes #it’s a miracle maedhros ever managed to be ginger #tolkien #lotr #the silmarillion #brought to you by elladan and elrohirs appearance in rotk. where they look like aragorn and all the dunedain. and elrond. and the house of #finwe. and luthien. and arwen. and and and