I know it doesn't look like that...

[Lachwen]

Even thought I saw Fellowship of the Ring before I had read the books, I still see the Uruk-hai as these cartoon-y creatures; in fact, they look just like these brown aliens from an episode of that (thankfully) short-lived Buzz Lightyear show... And Ents are just tree trunks that are broken at the top and have arms.

Also, in my mind, Wormtongue is a little, white, naked (but lacking genitalia) guy who looks a lot like a wrinkly version of the aliens from Close Encounters (though his eyes aren't quite that big).

And the fall of Sauron is infinitely cooler than the way Peter Jackson did it...oh, wait, that's the way it's supposed to be...

[Morai]

Also, in my mind, Wormtongue is a little, white, naked guy who looks a lot like a wrinkly version of the aliens from Close Encounters (though his eyes aren't quite that big).

I also had a "strange picture" of him in my head. Yet mine is quite different. Wormtounge looks like Satan from Passion of the Christ. worms in the nose and all. (Even though I saw and read LOTR before seeing the said movie.)

[Encaitare]

Also, in my mind, Wormtongue is a little, white, naked (but lacking genitalia) guy who looks a lot like a wrinkly version of the aliens from Close Encounters (though his eyes aren't quite that big).

As a "rabid Grima fan" (as Imladris has so eloquently put it) I must say... eep. Poor guy.

I also had a "strange picture" of him in my head. Yet mine is quite different. Wormtounge looks like Satan from Passion of the Christ. worms in the nose and all.

Satan was played by a woman, tee hee! Again, poor Grima! It's his tongue that's supposed to be wormy, not his nose..

As for my own strange image... Goldberry is literally golden and somewhat luminous.

[Lalwendë]

I always thought of Grima as having grey hair and being dressed in threadbare clothes; he was always like an old man, yet not old, if you see what I mean - more twisted by his character than by age.

Tom Bombadil I have always imagined to be like a younger, more lithe Brian Blessed. I think it's the voice which does this!

[Encaitare]

he was always like an old man, yet not old, if you see what I mean - more twisted by his character than by age.

I agree, the vision I had was of a scrawny middle-aged guy who has not aged particularly well, with black robes -- rather like the one in the movie although not nearly as unhygienic and disease-ridden!

[Lachwen]

Lalwendë: now I have a mental image of Bombadil bellowing "Shizzik! Fresh horses!"

[Nimrodel_9]

My picture of Denethor was a lot like the movie`s John Noble, only a bit skinnier. My Tombombadil is always a blur. Once in a while I get a clear picture of him, but it always goes away. Kinda like Sirius in Harry Potter (my fav character), but after seeing LotR, he always looked like Strider, (another of my favs) and still does. Weird how other movies/books affect the way we picture people in other movies/books, isn`t it?