[Kaiserin]

(My first post ever...)<BR>Much of the way I imagined things in the books were based on creature descriptions I've acquired from those Dungeons and Dragons RPGs from the eighties (which were probably based on Tolkien-lore, me thinks). <BR>I imagined Rivendell to be much more laid-back and"warm-looking", and not really with that streamlined perfection as in the FotR movie. <BR>I thought of Frodo as someone un-Elijah looking (though Mr. Wood is a good actor for the role); i.e., I thought of him as a bit "rounder" and older-looking. I definitely imagined Faramir differently. And oh, I believe Legolas should have dark hair; he ain't high-elven.<BR>The movies are great, though much of the alterations were rather upsetting especially the part where Faramir takes Frodo to Gondor.