crosspost: quotes about Gondorians and appearance [Oct 2015]

[anghraine]

Denethor’s appearance:

He [Denethor] was very tall and in appearance looked like an ancient Númenórean. (POME)

Denethor looked indeed much more like a great wizard than Gandalf did, more kingly, beautiful, and powerful. (ROTK)

(cf. Sam about Faramir: you have an air too, sir, that reminds me of, of–well, of Gandalf, of wizards.’ Faramir explicitly links this to Númenor: Maybe you discern from far away the air of Númenor.) 

Aragorn’s appearance:

Then more than any kind of Men he [Aragorn] appeared, and seemed rather an Elf-lord from the Isles of the West (Appendix A) 

Denethor and Aragorn:

Indeed he [Denethor] was as like to Thorongil [Aragorn] as to one of nearest kin. (Appendix A) 

Faramir’s appearance:

four tall Men … the fourth, the tallest (TTT) 

Faramir the younger was like him [Denethor] in looks (Appendix A)

the fair face of Faramir (ROTK)

Boromir’s appearance:

There was a tall man with a fair and noble face, dark-haired and grey-eyed, proud and stern of glance. (FOTR)

Boromir, five years the elder, beloved by his father, was like him in face (Appendix A)

Have you seen Boromir the Tall by moon or by starlight? … Where now is Boromir the Fair? …His head so proud, his face so fair (TTT)

Boromir, of high Númenórean lineage, not much shorter [than Aragorn, who is at least 6′6″] (LOTR: ARC)

Dol Amrothians’ appearance

tall men and proud with sea-grey eyes (ROTK)

tall as lords, grey-eyed, dark-haired (ROTK)

There is a fair lord [Imrahil] (ROTK)

Legolas looked at him [Imrahil] and bowed low; for he saw that here indeed was one [Imrahil] who had elven-blood in his veins (ROTK)

Prince Imrahil the fair with his knights (ROTK)

their son, Elfwine the Fair, had a striking likeness to his mother’s father (UT) 

the house and kin of the Lords of Dol Amroth were noble by blood, as they were fair in face (POME)

She [Finduilas] was a lady of great beauty and gentle heart

random Gondorians

At once Frodo thought of Boromir … they  were pale-skinned, dark of hair, with grey eyes and faces sad and proud (TTT)

A tall man [Hirgon] entered, and Merry choked back a cry; for a moment it seemed to him that Boromir was alive again and had returned. Then he saw that it was not so; the man was a stranger, though as like to Boromir as if he were one of his kin, tall and grey-eyed and proud. (ROTK)

Pippin looked at [Beregond]: tall and proud and noble, as all the men that he had yet seen in that land… (ROTK)