I don't think the movies could replace my own mental picture. It's too tied in with beautiful nostalgia, which is partly what keeps me rereading the books: trying to regain a lost feeling from childhood. I read most of the lord of the rings on a memorable family holiday and much of the scenary I see in my head is still taken from the landscape of West Cork (where the holiday was). This is also probably why the lord of the rings will always be my favourite of the books.
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"Come away, O human child!/ To the waters and the wild/With a faery hand in hand,/ For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand."
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