It is hard to compare a book to a movie. I try not to think of Peter Jackson's venture as an adaptation of the book but rather as an interpretation, since on several major points he digresses from the book and since (obviously), everyone has their own views of Middle Earth. For me personally, I enjoy reading the books more than I do watching the movies, because I feel closer with Tolkien's world when I read his own description of it.
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...where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defence.
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