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   From: clams_canino@earthdink.net   
      
   "Paul S. Person"  wrote in message   
      
   > Is this "men who are so easily corrupted?" from the book? Or is it   
   > just an abomination of PJ & accomplices? I ask because it sounds an   
   > awful lot like a quote from Galadriel's voiceover at the start of the   
   > first /LOTR/ movie.   
      
   No matter what you think it may "sound an awful lot like" - the poster   
   didn't put it in quotes at all; because he was merely stating a known fact   
   in evidence. (ie It wasn't a quote.)   
   Both in the Tolkien's legandarium and the Jackson films, the fact that men   
   are easily corrupted (and much more so than Elves) is pretty much a given   
   and expressed in many ways.   
      
   Galadriel's voiceover actually speaks about men "who above all desire   
   power".   
   I guess that makes them "easily corrupted" or perhaps "inherantly a bit   
   corrupt".   
   And that view is not far out of line with Tolkien's work at all.   
      
   -W   
      
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