Since my own pictures in my mind's eye of Middle Earth have been colored by all the artistic interpretations I've seen through the years, (From Tolkien, and the Hildebrants, to Alan Lee) it hard for me to judge. On the whole I felt that PJ's locations and sets matched my own visions closely, sometimes eeriely so. <P>The only place that didn't seem "right" to me was Bree! It looked like such a dank, dirty ol' town, and seemed so threatening. Maybe PJ was just trying to show it to us through the eyes of four naive, sheltered Hobbits.<P>I'm trying to remember if there were any other Hobbits in Bree. Was it portrayed as strictly a "Big People" town?<P>Now I do have some very firm ideas on how Fangorn and Ithilien look. It will be interesting to see how movie matches my images.
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