I'm reading Lord of the Rings for the first time and I found

I'm genuinely surprised there's no Japanese LOTR animu or videogame given their love of his tropes. Does Tolkien have any presence in Japanese literary culture?

>>9527256
No but what I will do is imagine a similar looking character from film or tv if the description is close enough.
Or if the book has an adaptation I can't think of the character as anything other than the actor who played him.

I imagined some characters in 100 years of solitude as JoJo characters.
Pietro Crespi - Giorno
Colonel Aureliano - Joseph
Ursula - Erina
Jose Arcadio Buendia - Jonathan
Jose Arcadio - Jotaro
Aureliano Jose - Kakyoin
Arcadio - Josuke
Melquiades -Zeppelin
Colonel Gerineldo Marquez - Caesar
Baby in the end - Part 4 Jolyne (Macondo is NOT destroyed in the end, Jolyne just makes it invisible)
Etc

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There's a case of a publisher encouraging this through illustrations. Pic related. http://www.amazon.in/Adventures-Wonderland-Through-Illustrated-Classics/dp/1626920613

>>9527256
No because im not an autistic weeb.

>>9527395
Alice in Wonderland is aesthetic as hell, it seems to work on any visual adaptation. It can even make anime look appealing.

>>9527294
>No but what I will do is imagine a similar looking character from film or tv if the description is close enough.

happened to me too, when I read the hobbit I kept imagining the bear guy as hagrid kek

I have noticed people getting overly autistic regarding what is canon and what is not and I think an attitude like yours should be encouraged.

It's a work of fiction after all.

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There are many franchises that use different illustrations depending on editor.

Example, Wayside book series. Which one would you say looks most aesthetically pleasing, /lit/?

>>9527268
They're fucking crazy for Anne of green gables and have made several anime adaptations
But that is public domain

>>9528974
78 > 05 > 03 > 10

>>9527256
I also imagine characters as qt anime girls. Most recently Athena in Greek classics.

>>9527256
What is this autism, holy fuck.

>>9529059
http://www.strawpoll.me/13003227

>>9527256
I imagine every protagonist as a straight white male.

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>>9527256
I always imagined the Hobbits in LOTR as K-On! characters

Yui = Frodo
Ritsu = Sam
Pippin = Mio
Merry = Mugi

>>9529541
holy...

>>9529637
Got a problem with that?

>>9527395
Oh, my fucking kek

>>9527256
>whatever they want them to be?
...What is exactly same as author's descriptions.

>>9527371
Kek

>>9527395
they also did Pride & Prejudice, &c