In restrospect, are you glad you saw the movies?

[Lord of Angmar]

The films are simply an interpretation of the works of J.R.R Tolkien, and thus I have tried to criticize them as such (although there are a few changes which I simply cannot be pleased with or even entirely neutral about). I do, however, understand what Elendur is saying when he says "I never even looked at Tolkien art because I didn't want the way I pictured stuff to be distorted. But now it totally is." I try hard to picture many of the characters the way I did before I saw the movie (i.e. Barliman Butterbur, Eowyn, Faramir, Denethor), and it was rather disappointing that the last time I read the books, images of the actors always popped into my head instead of the original images I held in my head. Still, I am not angry for having seen the movies and I try very hard to keep them separate in my mind from the literary works of Professor Tolkien.