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[Mithalwen]

Originally Posted by Lalwendë

An example of how your impressions can be altered - I was on my blog a couple of weeks ago saying how Mithalwen* looks exactly like Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire in a famous portrait; I'd just noticed this look-a-like. Last week I popped over to Chatsworth and the same portrait was there, and I thought "Oh, it's Mithalwen" instead of thinking "Oh, that's the duchess".




*Mithalwen is free to deny this resemblance of course

No I it isn't completely random - I can see what you mean. It does say a lot about how ideas of beauty have changed that she was played by Keira Knightly who looks nothing like the portrait or me.

I have to remind myself that I would have been an infant mortality statistic in eras when I would have been considered beautiful

And I had a friend who called me duchess