Take a stand! LotR vs. GoT

[El Mahdi]

I say making a choice and I nuke anybody who says I have to I will like both if I damned well please.

So, are you saying just nuke Westeros and Middle Earth from space? (You know, just to be sure and all...)

 

[Hand of Evil]

LotR -- it is a classic, been around and read by millions. While GoT may be just a fad of the times, I heard the same about WoT and where did that go?

 

[Thunderfoot]

None of the above -

The Wheel of Time!

 

[Jhaelen]

You have no choice. Place your stake in a camp. The comments are the place for nuance and dissent and we look forward to both!

Is this about the books or the LCGs?

I went with the LCGs since that was easier to decide (LotR)

 

[ssampier]

So, are you saying just nuke Westeros and Middle Earth from space? (You know, just to be sure and all...)

Post apocalyptic Middle Earth and Westeros?

I think a mutant oliphaunt would be awesome.

I have a feeling that the Others would survive and thrive in Westeros with the onset of nuclear winter....

 

[Descartes]

I went GoT for now because while not complete it is more detailed IMHO. But to compare the two in my eyes is like comparing a Model T to a 2011 Mustang. I'd rather drive the Mustang but every car built since the Model T owes some sort of nod to it.

Tolkein did something that was not widely done at the time and drew inspiration from mythology, environmental issues of his time (still relevent today), and his personal experiences in WWI.
Martin on the other hand draws inspiration from Tolkein and many other authors, history (the war of the roses), and his experiences as a screen writer.

The result is that both are original and thoroughly entertaining. Maybe its more a choice of Chinese or Vietnamese. You can be sure some sort of rice or noodle is going to be involved it just depends on what you're hungry for.

 

[GandalfMithrandir]

LOTR is responsible for a lot of us gamers, and I'd feel foolish not to side with Gandalf.

Plus, I'm begging to hate writers who don't seem to be capable of finishing a story, even if I think the story they are writing is fantastic.

I like that attitude

 

[Morkul]

neither. ive never read Game of Thrones and I am more into pre-Tolkein fantasy. Tolkein's work doesnt hold a candle to that of Lord Dunsany, E.R. Eddison, A. Merritt, Lovecraft or Mervyn Peake...

 

[Morkul]

I went GoT for now because while not complete it is more detailed IMHO. But to compare the two in my eyes is like comparing a Model T to a 2011 Mustang. I'd rather drive the Mustang but every car built since the Model T owes some sort of nod to it.

Tolkein did something that was not widely done at the time and drew inspiration from mythology, environmental issues of his time (still relevent today), and his personal experiences in WWI.
Martin on the other hand draws inspiration from Tolkein and many other authors, history (the war of the roses), and his experiences as a screen writer.

The result is that both are original and thoroughly entertaining. Maybe its more a choice of Chinese or Vietnamese. You can be sure some sort of rice or noodle is going to be involved it just depends on what you're hungry for.

pulp magazines back then were full of fantastic stories drawing from mythology. by the time Tolkein wrote his books, the heroic fantasy genre was 50 years old, dating back to William Morris in the 1890's. it had been done before, and better...

 

[jonesy]

...by the time Tolkein wrote his books, the heroic fantasy genre was 50 years old...

I'm not disagreeing with your view on the writers you mentioned, but how are you defining heroic fantasy there? There are stories I would place there that are thousands of years old.