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Galadrie1 · 07-26-2002, 06:43 PM

I hadn't even finished reading FotR when I went to see the movie, but I don't picture the actors in my head when I read it. My picture of Frodo was totally different. When I saw the movie, it took me a while to realize it was him. And when I read the books, I simply cannot picture Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn, even though I've seen him do it before. Gimli looks different in my mind, though I'm afraid Legolas looks a bit like Orlando Bloom. Celeborn and Galadriel are totally different, as is Elrond, Gandalf, Sam, Merry, Pippin, and Bilbo. (actually, my mental picture of elves was so weird from reading the Hobbit -- I pictured them as these short little faerie things that skipped around singing...)

07-26-2002, 06:43 PM	#1
Galadrie1 Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: The wrong place at the wrong time. Posts: 385	I hadn't even finished reading FotR when I went to see the movie, but I don't picture the actors in my head when I read it. My picture of Frodo was totally different. When I saw the movie, it took me a while to realize it was him. And when I read the books, I simply cannot picture Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn, even though I've seen him do it before. Gimli looks different in my mind, though I'm afraid Legolas looks a bit like Orlando Bloom. Celeborn and Galadriel are totally different, as is Elrond, Gandalf, Sam, Merry, Pippin, and Bilbo. (actually, my mental picture of elves was so weird from reading the Hobbit -- I pictured them as these short little faerie things that skipped around singing...) __________________ "For this is what your folk would call magic, I believe; though I do not understand clearly what they mean; and they seem to use the same word of the deceits of the Enemy. But this, if you will, is the magic of Galadriel."