User blog comment:J.S. Clingman/10 Good Reasons why The Lord of the Rings Film Trilogy is better than the Star Wars Film Series/@comment-70.67.242.131-20181122095318

I'm sorry but most of your arguments are, to put it bluntly, weak, Let's go through them shall we?

1: The Oscars are UTTERLY irrelevant they're political in the extreme, and ultimately relate to a bunch of back patting, the existance next year of a "best popular film" catagory says all that needs to be said about this.

2:unfair comparison to make, you're taking one film trilogy vs every SW flick ever made, thing is the Original SW trilogy fares BETTER then LOTR on that chart.

3: absolutely irrelevant.

4: that's your opinion,m frankly Palpatine is a scarier villian to me then Sauron. Sauron is a pretty...... TBH, simple, villian. He's an evil dark lord who wants to conquer the world "cause"  Palpatine is a political operator who actually suceeded. given the state of democracy in.... several westren countries, Palpatine is terrifying because he's plausable. As for Vader vs the Nazghul.. they're really not much differant in fact I've often suspected that there is some cross pollination of ideas, the Nazghul's blasck robes combined with armor, their "distinct voices" these have some halmarks of Darth Vader and what made him such an effective villian. Vader though was a very differant TYPE of villian, the Nazghul are a "faceless evil" Vader though had a personal connection to Luke that no one else ever would have. As for the Music, well I'll address that in point 6.

5: You're grasping and moving the goal posts. this is about the MOVIES. Star Wars will always be remebered as a classic movie series. Yes I agree the Original trilogy is the true classic, but SW is hardly the only movie with an inferior prequal, and 80 vs 90 percent isn't eactly that big a deal in differance. In fact if 80% of the fanbase liked the SW prequals, that's not terriable at all, that's actually pretty damn good.

6: The Music, I wanna preface this by noting that I LOVE the soundtracks to all the movies, however the oscars are pretty irrelevant (one thing to keep in mind is that there's politics and the Oscars and John Williams wins so many of those things I imagine the academy tends to want to try to reward others on occasion) I think a better anyalsis would be cultural impact. this BTW gets back to point 4, weather you prefer one or the other, the Imperial March (Darth Vader's Theme) has a level of cultural reckongization that very very few movie themes can match. And SW is riddled with music like this, that has a long lasting cultural legacy, the main theme, the Imperial March, even Duel of the fates from the SW prequals has acheived this level of cultural impact I'd argue. I don't think any peice of music from LOTR (or the hobbit) is nearly as influential.

7: Claiming he's more powerful doesn't really mean much. The thing is Gandolf and Obi-wan fill VERY VERY differant movie roles. Obi-wan is the wise old mentor, he sets the hero on his path, accompanies him halfway, and is "removed" (in this case by dying) at about the midway point, where the Hero must grow into his own as a result. Gandolf isn't exactly this in Lord of the Rings (in the novel of The Hobbit, he fills that role) as he's very much a central character in the "B plot"

8: Honestly at this point I'm beginning to wonder if you're real point here was to praise LOTR or just bash the latest stuff from Disney. the thing about LOTR is, the film makers largely have stopped. I doubt Middle Earth would fare any better if we had ten movies in it's franchise and new line cinema was moving forward with "THE INCREDIABLE ORGIN STORY NO ONE ASKED FOR OF ALFRID OF LAKETOWN!"

9: Ok on this point  you lost any and all crediability when you started comparing people's names with the names of giant space stations. That said at least you didn't embaress yourself and list "Endor" as a stupid Star Wars name.

10: What you see is SW uses a more... common vernacular, and LOTR uses a more archaic form of speach. Yet again, this is PREFERANCE.

TLDR stop pushing opinions as facts. thank you