Would Sandra Bullock be a good Mrs. Isildur?

I like Sandra Bullock. I enjoy her movies and her acting style (and her looks -- I'm a guy). I think she can potray a wide variety of characters, and if she has ever blown a role I haven't seen her do it. I guess my favorite role for Sandy is Sally Owens in Practical Magic. Sally is a witch. And not just any kind of witch. She's an everyday kind of witch who wants to be normal. She struggles for normalcy and finally comes to understand she has to be what she is, which can be a blend of what she wants to be and what she must be. That realization strikes me as being very similar to what the Faithful Dunedain of Numenor must have come to terms with in the last centuries of the Second Age. They seem, like the Kings Men, to have feared death. In The Lord of the Rings Faramir tells Frodo "death was ever present, because the Numenoreans [of Gondor] still, as they had in their old kingdom, and so lost it, hungered after endless life unchanging." To so indict his people to a stranger Faramir must have believed the Dunedain's preoccupation with death and long life was a long and bitter struggle. Indeed, the Kin-strife was waged among the Dunedain of Gondor precisely because some of them believed that mixing the kingly house with foreign blood would somehow dilute the gifts of the Dunedain. They were waning, slowly losing the long life they had enjoyed in Numenor, and which itself was not long enough. The Faithful Dunedain thus were caught between two worlds: the mortal world of Men still devoted to Iluvatar and respectful of his emissaries, the Valar, and the half-mortal world of the envious Numenoreans who felt they should have been admitted to the ranks of the Elves. The temptation to fall must have been very strong, especially when Sauron was brought among the Numenoreans by Ar-Pharazôn, the last King of Numenor. Sauron brought with him the One Ring, which enhanced his ability to subvert and dominate the wills of other rational creatures. He slowly poisoned the thoughts of the Numenoreans and hardened their hearts against the Valar, and persuaded many of them to worship Morgoth, the Dark Lord of the First Age who had been banished from the world after his final defeat. Imagine the world in which the Faithful Numenoreans now found themselves living. They were no longer safe and many were taken and sacrificed in the temple Sauron had constructed. Many others fled to Middle-earth, seeking refuge in the northern lands where the Dunedain were still friendly with the Eldar of Beleriand. In the generations prior to Sauron's arrival most of the Faithful had been rounded up and taken from their homes in western Numenor (in lands once visited by the Elves of Aman) and forced to settle in Romenna, a city on the eastern coast. Sauron thus found them easy to persecute from the royal city of Armenelos as his power and influence increased.

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