Still forming your own images of Middle-earth, or stuck with Elijah and co.? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Ithaeliel · 07-29-2002, 09:18 PM

I read the books after I saw the movie... *cowers from disdainful forum veterans* but my images of some characters changed after I read the books. Frodo I imagined to be not as youthful in appearance, as he was supposed to be fifty years old *cough*. Ian McKellen played a perfect Gandalf, and that's my image of him. I imagine Arwen to be more... I don't know, stern in appearance than Liv Tyler's Arwen. Legolas could be very slightly different, but only in facial structure. I suppose I unconsciously filtered out the mental images from the movie that I did not like and kept the ones that I did. I'm happy to say that the movie did not scar my mental images of the book characters for life.

07-29-2002, 09:18 PM	#11
Ithaeliel Cornus Caliga Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Five-hundred-twenty-five thousand, six hundred minutes from here Posts: 710	I read the books after I saw the movie... cowers from disdainful forum veterans but my images of some characters changed after I read the books. Frodo I imagined to be not as youthful in appearance, as he was supposed to be fifty years old cough. Ian McKellen played a perfect Gandalf, and that's my image of him. I imagine Arwen to be more... I don't know, stern in appearance than Liv Tyler's Arwen. Legolas could be very slightly different, but only in facial structure. I suppose I unconsciously filtered out the mental images from the movie that I did not like and kept the ones that I did. I'm happy to say that the movie did not scar my mental images of the book characters for life. __________________ That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. .................William Wordsworth