The Lord of the Rings' Legacy

LOTR's legacy, where does it begin? With the books of course, then later in the years with The Fellowship coming out, it begun a large anticipation for the other two sequels to be made.

Yes... yes... as I read the books, and watch the movies, attempting to form a comparison with the alchemy of mind, I realize how much they are really the same. A lot of the scenes are the same, sure plenty of quotes are different but still, movies usually do give a lot more insight than books do in GRAPHICAL form, especially to the average human mind.

But what makes LOTR just so great to want to read/watch them? It's story, it's characters, and it's legacy. The battle scenes of LOTR sort of just grew and grew from the first movie, then to the second movie which just got even more warful, and then the THIRD movie which had the MOST combat and the final fights.

However, I felt one of the best scenes in the books and in the movies was the defense of Helm's Deep. Humans and Elves uniting like they did in ancient times, destroying Orcs and smashing them together.

The Lord of the Rings... the best trilogy on known to movies.