Still forming your own images of Middle-earth, or stuck with Elijah and co.?

[Davin]

I'm kind of in the middle with this. I started reading LotR only a few days before I saw the movie (I honestly had no idea what LotR was before I saw a commercial on t.v.) so I had already created a basic image of some of the characters when I first walked into the theatre. But when I saw the movie, I was surprized a little because most of the characters looked almost just as I imagined them. The hobbits resembled my own imagined ones, and the most of the fellowship as well. I was most pleased with Gandalf and Saruman however. And Elrond pee'd me off, 'Matrix Man' is a good actor....but not a good Elrond. His hair looked awfully funny.

But, luckily, I have already finished TTT and RoTK, so I have been able to use my imagination much more with the other books, and the new characters/landscapes. But like someone else has said already on this forum, I find that I still picture different landscapes when I read about ME. I liked the ones used in the movie..but for some reason they aren't the same for me when I read.

I too though Sean Bean played an excellent Boromir. I almost like the movie Boromir better than the book Boromir, save for the fact that books always offer more to a character, even if the actor for the character is great.