Is all the "magic" gone?

[The Only Real Estel]

Interesting discussion about visualisation. One of the reasons I enjoyed the films so much was that they visualised for me things that I hadn't really been able to conjure up in detail in my imagination

Exactly the way it is with me, places in the movies like Rivendell & the Shire really aided my imagination, sometimes I have a little trouble straightening out what I think things look like . Characters too, I was a little bit iffy on Aragorn, but as soon as I saw Viggo playing the part, I knew that's the way I'd always imagined him. Of course, as has already been pointed out, the movie will probably restrict your imagination in some ways, but for me it aided mine easily as much as it restricted it, quite possibly more.