Who saw TORN's Gollum pics ? What do you think?

Those "bags" under his eyes may represent a musculature bulge. You really cannot tell much from these images about what the final Gollum will look like, except he'll probably have pointy ears and will be very thin.

This is a perfect example of how us fans overanalize everything

did you mean "anal-ize" or "analyze"?

either way, it's because i love the books so much that if something doesn't exactly match the moving pictures in my head, i will ^&*#&^$ about it. and if the fans don't overanalyze, who will?

aryne *

Oops, typo.
These movies won't be perfect, it's impossible to make movies of LOTR that will perfectly match everyones vision of it. I think we should accept these for what they are (unless they stray way too far from the story), someone's interpretation of the books we know and love, not in any way shape or form a perfect visual realization of LOTR.