Have you read The Hobbit since seeing the dwarf costumes?

LordElrond

LordElrond

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I just finished reading An Unexpected Party and I must say that every dwarf looks like Peter Jackson's dwarves in my head now but with colored hoods and cloaks, even my old Thorin has been replaced by Richard Armitage. Would this happen to many other people? it's kind of hard not to imagine the new dwarves because none of their looks and features are really described in the book.
 
next Summer hopefully before the movie is released. I still need to see a trailer. I wanna see them in action to put them in my mind. The BTS don't help. I want the real thing.[cool]
 
I must admit I never had an individual picture of all of them in my head -- the descriptions were too sparse and came too close together for me to have an individual mental picture of them all. So it was a treat to read it again with that visual queue -- it made it easier to attribute a distinct personality to each character in the page. They are still "less serious" looking in my head, but now they are very distinct people.
 
I just finished reading The Hobbit again. I imagined them with the clothes that PJ's dwarves wear, but I still picture Alan Lee's designs when it comes to their heads/beards.

And, of course, their colorful hoods.
 
I'll probably have to wait until after I see PJ's Hobbit before I imagine RA in a dwarf costume. Until then, I have no trouble imagining RA at all. [;)] (Just not in TH.)
 
I just picture Alan Lee's designs whenever I read the books (God save me, I love his work). As I said above, I usually only borrow the movie costumes when I'm visualizing the books. Unless, of course, it's a character that Lee never illustrated, in which case I go with PJ's designs more-or-less (with some imaginative tweaks of my own).

PJ's Balrog, however, will ALWAYS be the Balrog I envision when I read the LoTR. Just an absolutely perfect design.

I'm hoping the same can be said for Smaug come 2013. Fingers crossed.
 
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This has happen to me as well. I watched LOTR a little while ago and when Thorin and Balin were mentioned the new actor's faces in costume popped into my head, and I thought, "Hey, that's kinda' neat." I also had to break out "The Hobbit" audio book last week (*reserved for extreme cases of insomnia only) and I found that I was thinking of all the dwarves in costume which really seemed to make it come more to life then usual.
 
I have an it actually works fine. I picture most of the movie versions actually, even the ones with shorter beards XD I pictue Bombur even fatter actually though lol.
 
If I weren't in the middle of watching a couple of other things I'd pop that disc in and give it a spin. I absolutely love that flick!
 
and I see all of the dwarves as their PJ counterparts, although Thorin's beard is still longer in my imagination. :)

I've always seen them different than the Disney-like descriptions in the book, more warrior-like so it's nice to actually see that come to pass.

Wonder if I will be able to read this while in my Fantasy & FT class? :) (hopes so) > kind of wishes I waited until my last semester to take that class as the first Hobbit would be out then.
 
keeping my reading characters separate from the filmic characters... like with LotR. The characters have more depth to them, but they've remained the same as they always have been... which I'm very grateful for!
 
Even after seeing the films many, many times, there are a lot of things that I picture quite differently while I'm reading. I reread The Hobbit during the time the production photos were released and I still didn't picture the dwarves that way when I was reading. It's funny sometimes, because even in the case of lines taken right from the book, I often hear them in my head with a totally different emphasis or intonation.
 
with a printout of the dwarves as my bookmark - it's interesting to try to picture them like they'll be in the movies while reading.
 
I never had that good of an idea of their features before, much like with LotR, the new faces will probably slot right into my mind, but not yet since I've only seen publicity stills. Not the costumes, however. Those are very much a part of my imagining of the Dwarves-- the colorful hoods and cloaks will not be supplanted by the grim black and metal armor.

Just as I imagine female hobbits clad in sort of a Regency style, rather than the "Ren-faire" look they have in the movies. That's how they were in my head...
 
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