JKR's style, Lewis Carroll, HP vs LOTR

[Martin Smith]

Tabouli:
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Sauron "Voldemort", Sam "Ron", Boromir "Quirrell", Galadriel "McGonagall",
Aragorn "Sirius"... actually, the actor they've dug up to play the striding
one is quite a close match for my mental image of Sirius.  Tortured,
handsome, stringy black hair, about the right age... he's American, I think,
but otherwise I'd give him at least an audition!
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Well, he's mostly American, but also Danish. Viggo speaks Danish fluently
and understands Swedish (yay!), so his European roots and apperent language
skills could mean he is capable of the British accent.
BTW, the actor first signed for Aragorn, Stuart Townsend, is British. How
about him for Sirius?

Martin, living as far from NZ as possible, yet right in the area where the
*original* Middle-earth was believed to be (that is, in Northern (Norse?)
mythology)