I subvert things, more or less by existing, and LOTR, despite its in many ways fantastic world-building, is ripe for subversion largely because Tolkein was so very Anglocentric - I mean, he was a British professor writing in the first half of the twentieth century, so it sort of comes with the territory but it's still quite glaringly THERE.
And Gondor is sort of the Faded Classical Culture of that world.
And I like doing character design.
And so I decided Gondorians look sort of Greco-roman, with olive skin, arched noses, dark curly hair, etc. My friend Pearl enjoys my bizarre ramblings and has been wanting to draw my version of Denethor's sons, and was having a hard time with Faramir, ergo, facial ref-sheet. He looks considerably less Grecian than many of his people due his Numenorian mum.
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And yeah. I've actually done that. There's probably something wrong with me.