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To: DoctorMichael
I know all about the line of thought! I have seen them.

I read the books without having a mental image of those peoples, even after reading it many times in my life, I didn't really need to picture them.

The moviemakers had to make an image though. The southerners... Haradrim, actually looked more Middle-Eastern to me... or northern Africa perhaps (due to the Oliphants). Their costumes, to my anthropologically untrained eye, looked nomadic Arabian or Bedouin-like. Notable though, the structures that the oliphants carried looked asian.

And the Easterlings in the film seemed very Oriental in design, to my eye.
134 posted on 01/02/2003 6:58:54 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
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To: HairOfTheDog
If we must try to compare them to real people, that is what my eye saw anyway.
135 posted on 01/02/2003 6:59:43 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
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