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@w-o-holmes I find music to be very inspirational as well.  I don’t really listen to classical music, though.  I usually listen to epic music such as Audiomachine, Two Steps From Hell (odd name, I know), Epic North, Antti Martikainen, and more.  For one of my stories, I usually listen to a specific album while writing it.  That album does have lyrics (<i>Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys </i>by My Chemical Romance), but it reflects the story perfectly so the lyrics don’t get in the way.  But the vast majority of the time the music I write to is instrumental.

Have you read the Hobbit book at all?  The Hobbit book is shorter than one section of the Lord of the Rings (aka shorter than just the Fellowship of the Ring), and yet both the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit have three two-hour-or-more long movies.  The Hobbit movies are different from the book even more than the Lord of the Rings ones.  Tauriel was never one of Tolkien’s characters, and Legolas makes no appearance in the book.  If it weren’t for the Hobbit book I’d say the Hobbit movies were fantastic.  But there is a book, and I prefer the book version.  For the Lord of the Rings there are some things I prefer in the books and some things I prefer in the movies.

When I think of my worlds I get a different feel for each one, because each one is vastly different from the others.  I don’t think I usually get a feeling of color, though.  The feeling sometimes depends on the world it’s set in, and sometimes depends on the character’s personality or main goal.  Or the main character’s feelings.