I rather suspect one of the reasons that the Lord of the Rings and particularly the Peter Jackson adaptations, have cast such a long shadow on the culture is that it is an unusual example of succeeding at presenting - almost entirely earnestly - positive masculine archetypes.

I love this one. All the negs were Blitzed. The sole original print this version is made from is safe in a box at News UK Archives. Bulldogs taking off from Hornchurch by Eddie Taylor. I think he did the ploughman same day.