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Alfirin · 09-12-2007, 05:00 PM

[QUOTE=Naaramare;30389]::laughs:: I never really had this dilemma. Mostly because the BBC production is still the first audioalization (is that a word?) I ever heard and thus, all the voices, syntax and even visuals I have will be forever linked to that series of tapes.

Then again, I've had much more time to listen to the tapes than I have had to watch the movie, so I suppose we'll see.

I've also never had this dilemma because everything I see of everyone's interpretations of Tolkien's works simply gets added together in my mind, with details added and extracted until I end up with a Frodo I like. The Frodo of my mind looks a great deal like Elijah, but his voice is and forever will be Ian Holm's (BBC production). Ian McKellan is a perfect visual Gandalf (for me) and his voice and whoever played the BBC's voice have melded and added together until Gandalf's voice can sound in my head.

The BBC Gandalf was voiced by Sir Michael Hordern (If you want to see what he looke like rent Yellowbeard, or Theater of Blood or Danny the chapion of the World (there are a lot more but thats enough to start with) He was also the voice of Bager in the stop-motion "Wind in the willows" As you migh gess from the previos I am a great lover of the audio set as well. By the way did you find it a little creepy when you watced the Jackson movie hearing what you knew for Frodo's coming out of Bibo's mouth (both are Ian Holm after all). I also think the Lord of the Nazgul's lines are a LOT scarier in the Battle of Pellenor feilds when you can hear them clearly and the have the reverberation they do in the audio version. But then, I utterly detest the Peter Jackson Lord, I am so angry that he didn't adhere to the book description (come on can you inagine a charcter in LOTR who was better desgined for some CGI special effects that a guy wo whole head is just two glowing eyes and a lick of flame with a crown floating above it?) sorry for the rant moving on.

Getting back to the orginal focus of the thread Yes Ive felt the same thing but in a slighly funnier way. My presonal first Visual LOTR experiance (my Father read it to me as a bedime story before I could read but that isn't visual) happens to be the old Rankin Bass Cartoon version of the Hobbit and Return of the King and so it is those images that are my fundamental forms for the charcters. By now I know That Orcs are more or less human-shaped (ugly but human shaped) but I still imagine them with the horns cat eyes and dog muzzles of the cartoon. Simliarly I still think of Gollum as being the froggy fishy creature with the green skin and cave fish eyes as the cartoon even though I know this is wildly wrong. Its all how you remember things.

09-12-2007, 05:00 PM	#9
Alfirin Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 435	[QUOTE=Naaramare;30389]::laughs:: I never really had this dilemma. Mostly because the BBC production is still the first audioalization (is that a word?) I ever heard and thus, all the voices, syntax and even visuals I have will be forever linked to that series of tapes. Then again, I've had much more time to listen to the tapes than I have had to watch the movie, so I suppose we'll see. I've also never had this dilemma because everything I see of everyone's interpretations of Tolkien's works simply gets added together in my mind, with details added and extracted until I end up with a Frodo I like. The Frodo of my mind looks a great deal like Elijah, but his voice is and forever will be Ian Holm's (BBC production). Ian McKellan is a perfect visual Gandalf (for me) and his voice and whoever played the BBC's voice have melded and added together until Gandalf's voice can sound in my head. The BBC Gandalf was voiced by Sir Michael Hordern (If you want to see what he looke like rent Yellowbeard, or Theater of Blood or Danny the chapion of the World (there are a lot more but thats enough to start with) He was also the voice of Bager in the stop-motion "Wind in the willows" As you migh gess from the previos I am a great lover of the audio set as well. By the way did you find it a little creepy when you watced the Jackson movie hearing what you knew for Frodo's coming out of Bibo's mouth (both are Ian Holm after all). I also think the Lord of the Nazgul's lines are a LOT scarier in the Battle of Pellenor feilds when you can hear them clearly and the have the reverberation they do in the audio version. But then, I utterly detest the Peter Jackson Lord, I am so angry that he didn't adhere to the book description (come on can you inagine a charcter in LOTR who was better desgined for some CGI special effects that a guy wo whole head is just two glowing eyes and a lick of flame with a crown floating above it?) sorry for the rant moving on. Getting back to the orginal focus of the thread Yes Ive felt the same thing but in a slighly funnier way. My presonal first Visual LOTR experiance (my Father read it to me as a bedime story before I could read but that isn't visual) happens to be the old Rankin Bass Cartoon version of the Hobbit and Return of the King and so it is those images that are my fundamental forms for the charcters. By now I know That Orcs are more or less human-shaped (ugly but human shaped) but I still imagine them with the horns cat eyes and dog muzzles of the cartoon. Simliarly I still think of Gollum as being the froggy fishy creature with the green skin and cave fish eyes as the cartoon even though I know this is wildly wrong. Its all how you remember things.