Limiting potential imagination - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Althern · 01-28-2004, 06:32 AM

I’m new, so guess my question goes here.

I wandered past a toy store recently and saw all the various LoTR figurines and paraphernalia in the window, which made me wonder: does it bother anybody else that now that the movies have been released, the visual identities of the principal characters have become fixed? When I first read the books (ages ago), I formed vivid mental images of the principals, which were subsequently modified with age and many re-readings, and now when I think about it, I have to be disciplined to retrieve those images, and not bug-eyed Elijah Wood.

And what of the new generation, who see the films first and read second? Will their experience of the books be less, given that somebody else has done the imagining for them?

01-28-2004, 06:32 AM	#1
Althern Animated Skeleton Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: A twin city divided by a great river... must be Osgiliath Posts: 50	Limiting potential imagination I’m new, so guess my question goes here. I wandered past a toy store recently and saw all the various LoTR figurines and paraphernalia in the window, which made me wonder: does it bother anybody else that now that the movies have been released, the visual identities of the principal characters have become fixed? When I first read the books (ages ago), I formed vivid mental images of the principals, which were subsequently modified with age and many re-readings, and now when I think about it, I have to be disciplined to retrieve those images, and not bug-eyed Elijah Wood. And what of the new generation, who see the films first and read second? Will their experience of the books be less, given that somebody else has done the imagining for them?