"Most of them were very dark-skinned." (pp. 28-29)
Their Chief is taller, old, wrinkled, white-bearded and blue-eyed so is he one of the many that are dark-skinned or one of the few that are not, as shown on the book cover attached here?
This question highlights a difference between verbal and visual media. A verbal description may be incomplete or ambiguous. Even when it is clear, it is not present throughout the text whereas a dramatic character's visual appearance is present throughout a scene.
Although I have always appreciated prose fiction, I have more recently gained an increasing appreciation of various visual media and the ways in which they differ:
a detailed, accurate book cover;
an illustrated text;
a comic strip;
an animated film;
a live action film;
a stage play.
Shadowlands about CS Lewis has been successively a stage play, a TV play, a feature film and a novelization of the film. (Wisely, scenes from Lewis' fictions were not interspersed with the biographical drama. When a child looked into a wardrobe, it was only a wardrobe.) I would like to see Anderson's works adapted into other media but only if this can be done really well.
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