After I saw previews for FotR, I read the book. When I was finished, I saw the movie. It's a good thing I read the first couple of chapters of TTT, otherwise the movie would have ruined them for me. I actually had read exactly as far in the book as the movie went, and I forgot that I had even started the Two Towers.
After reading LotR, I read The Hobbit, and I just started reading the Silm. It's a little confusing, so I just think of it more as history than a story, although history is a story.
Since I didn't register here until after the movie came out (I didn't even know about the Barrow Downs), I can't really say anything about how the content has changed, but I think it's good that there is are separate sections for movie discussions and book discussions.
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Consider the purr a variety of audible tranquilizer. [. . .] For a few of us, there is one more purr, a secret purr. When we combine our secret purrs, we produce the Purr of Power. And that is simply the amplified amity we feel as furred and purred beings.
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