Two Frodos

[Evenstar1]

Very interesting perspectives, all! (LOVE the fanfic concept, Mark12_30!)

I, unfortunately, fall into the camp of "Movie-Firsters." Although I had read (at least part of) the LOTR when I was young (around 12), I didn't retain much of it. I also have a vague recollection of having seen the cartoon-version **shudders**, but that, too, is much beyond my retention. So now, having seen FOTR as an adult, I immediately went out and got the books and read them all as fast as I could. But my Middle Earth world was very easy to reconcile with what I'd just seen in the movie. And my Frodo looks like Elijah Wood, Sam like Sean Astin, etc. And I especially appreciated Sean Bean's interpretation of Boromir, after having read the books! (Ian McKellan, of course, was astounding, as always!!)

The only real trouble I had was reconciling Tolkien's Bree with PJ's Bree. But the Nazgul (and most all of the other characters) were right on!