"My friends, you bow to no one"

[Inziladun]

Originally Posted by William Cloud Hicklin

Tolkien makes a point of telling us that Boromir's hair was "shorn about his shoulders," but mentions no facial hair; Wizards, Theoden, Beorn and all Dwarves (and Cirdan!) are expressly bearded, but elsewhere he is silent and, just maybe, we can "read" that silence.

In the LOTR Prologue, it is noted that among the distinctions of the Hobbits in the Eastfarthing was that

...they were well known to be Stoors in a large part of their blood, as indeed was shown by the down that many grew on their chins. No Harfoot or Fallohide had any trace of a beard.

The Stoors being the most "mannish" of the Hobbits, would that presuppose a general beardedness of Men, at least those of non-Númenórean descent?

Originally Posted by William Cloud Hicklin

(Query- how did Aragorn out in the wild for months on end maintain that 7 days' growth look?)

You only think that was hair. Strider just didn't wash up very much.