Limiting potential imagination

[Lalaith]

People's imaginations work in different ways. In mine, the characters that peopled Middle Earth were quite clear and vivid, but the places were often shadowy and poorly defined. I had visualised Rohan as more flat and prairie-like, but that was about the only real discrepancy I can think of, I thought most of the settings in the film were splendid, and because I had no precise idea of them beforehand, I am happy to accept the film versions.
The characters are quite a different matter and my views on those are variable. the film Eomer and Gandalf were the most acceptable to my imagination, I think that the one I am most unhappy about is Theoden.