[Kalimac]

The Faramir hair-reference passed me over the first six or seven times I read the trilogy, although I had a pretty good idea of what Eowyn looked like (he just describes her a bit more, I think). My personal problem with a very dark-haired Faramir is that when I try to picture him for some reason I always end up with a mental image of Marcus from "Babylon 5" - that man does *not* belong in Gondor! (Sherwood Forest, maybe, but not Gondor). So I'm fine with the more medium-brown colour that Wenham has.<P>Besides, it does make him and Sean Bean look very brotherlike. I can give PJ a pass on this one, especially since the raven hair doesn't seem to have made much of an impression on most of us the first time around either . (But then, it doesn't bother me that Sam and Rosie are, for all purposes, blond, which technically they really shouldn't be. So I'm not really much of a hair purist).