Forever?

[Imladris]

It all goes back to how Tolkien and Lewis believed that myth cannot be turned into drama.

Did PJ miss a few things, yes he did...I'm sure that we would have missed points as well.

If there is a difference it seems to me that its that Jackson seems to see evil as an external force more than an internal drive.

Not meaning to be polemic, but how do you portray an internal drive on film?

As for Sauron not being evil: he was an eye for pete's sake. It was the feel of him that was evil. How do you portray intangibility into tangibleness?

The Evil of the movie, as many have said, is different from the book. I think that PJ (necessarily) had to simplify the evil...External force (to borrow davem's wording), verses internal conflict....maybe that is one reason they did not show Sam's temptation. It was a truly internal drive, an internal temptation, that could not have been portrayed on film and if it had been attempted it would have come off as ludicrously ridiculous.

The Nazgul was a failure in my opinion. Black cloaks is not what makes them scary, or their fell beasts.

It is the quality of myth. It is a feeling that cannot be described, that cannot be projected.

Ultimately, PJ was doomed to fail in that sense. We would all fail.