'Seeing' the book

[Kalimac]

I'm fairly visual in some ways - not as much as Tigerlily maybe - since I have to make a conscious effort to not replace the scenes I imagined with the ones from the movie. It's not too much of a struggle now though - besides, I like both versions. Some movie elements have come in, unavoidably, but all they've done is make it more vivid .<P>The only movie character who directly took over the book character for me was Elijah Wood as Frodo, but the reason for that was that I always had a very difficult time picturing Frodo; if I had the ability I could draw pictures of the way I imagined every other character, but not him - curly hair, brown or green eyes, short, and that was about it. It was like he was out of focus. So the movie face works for me .