[Pippin]

Peregrene we seem to have a shared favorite character. or did you just pick that name randomly?

I agree, nothing can relace the images in your mind. it will be interesting to see the interpretations of another, in this case, it's a director. I have recently seen the stage production of The Hobbit in London. The story stayed mainly the same (except for there being five dwarves...Thorin, Bombur, Fili, Kili and Balin) and they only put one song out of the book to music. this was so that the songs that you have your own personal tune for in your head were not ruined or replaced by someone elses interpretation. I think this was clever. Has anyone else seen it?

There is an inn, a merry old inn
beneath an old grey hill
and there they brew a beer so brown
the man in the moon himself came down
one night to drink his fill

This has to be one of my favourite songs out of the whole book, others being the story of Tinuviel, the road goes ever on, and of course all of Sam's poetry. I'd be interested in everyone else's preferences