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Star Wars vs. The Lord of The Rings

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  • Start Date:
    2-13-2008
  • Last Vote:
    9-5-2008

Issue:

Ok I have to issue a disclaimer right now.  This is probably the nerdiest campaign I have ever created but I think it is important.  I was first made aware of this issue while watching the movie Clerks II.  In the film the characters get into a heated argument about the supremacy of either Lord of The Rings or Star Wars.  Choosing both is not an option!

Belief:

            Star Wars a New Hope, originally titled Star Wars was released on May 25th 1977.  Since then the saga was completed by two sequels and 3 prequels detailing the lives of Anakin Skwalker, and later, in Star Wars time, his son Luke Skywalker.  This movie started a movement that still lives on today.  So prevalent is this pop culture icon in our society that a recent religion pole taken in England yielded a very high percentage of the answer Jedi.  Next to the main story of coming of age and the duality of man you have two love stories, multiple star battles, and an overwhelmingly striking social commentary.

               The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring was released December 19, 2001.  This highly anticipated adaptation of the work of J.R.R. Tolkien brought the stories, which many around the world had grown up reading, to life on the silver screen.  In this saga Frodo Baggins must transport a powerful ring to the fiery, hell like, pit from whence it was created.  The problem is that the ring is evil and it can take power over people and he has to take it a long distance through many obstacles while the main evil of Middle Earth is trying to bring about a, kind of, apocalypse with these demon type things called Orks.  You also have a disenfranchised king, tons of elves (the big kind not like Christmas), a spunky dwarf and a wizard that bears an uncanny resemblance to magneto.  They of course also have epic battles.

            So here is the simple vote.  Once and for all, in your heart of hearts, which to you prefer?

40%

Star Wars

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60%

The Lord of The Rings

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Submitted by Samantha R. on Wed, 08/06/2008 - 01:29

Lord of the rings gets my vote for having the orignality,its a beatiful story. But star wars will always go down in history as a greatest movie!

Submitted by Sherry B. on Thu, 04/03/2008 - 01:20

Lord of the Rings was good but Star Wars gets my vote for being the best....hands down!!!

Submitted by tserendork t. on Tue, 03/25/2008 - 12:17

lord of the rings

Submitted by Daria Y. on Tue, 03/25/2008 - 06:25

STAR WARS man lord of the rings is okey not anything to STAR WARS besides STAR WARS has six movies lord of the rings only has so anyway STAR WARS beets it by six any way STAR WARS for live man.

Submitted by Brian G. on Tue, 03/25/2008 - 01:15

How is this even a contest star wars owns fool

Submitted by Hazem G. on Mon, 03/24/2008 - 22:56

I'm a Lord Of The Rings Addict so one answer LORD OF THE RINGS ROCK

Submitted by gil h. on Mon, 03/24/2008 - 18:35

Star Wars
lo mejor!!!!

Submitted by Ali E. on Mon, 03/24/2008 - 11:41

Me2

I love J.R.R.Tolkien's book

He is the best writer in all times

And the movies are the best in all times tooooooooooooo

Submitted by Aryu B. on Mon, 03/24/2008 - 11:36

LOTR is the best movies i saw 4ever.
I read the books,play the games and watch the movies.This is my work in everyday

Submitted by Diego R. on Sat, 03/22/2008 - 23:22

Yo soy fanatico de Star Wars y tengo una coleccion de estos juguetes, pero ademas tambien me encanta el Señor de los Anillos, ambas trilogias son de lo mejor!!!!

Submitted by Josh F. on Sat, 03/22/2008 - 18:05

Starwars: benchmark in moviehistory, the first 3 at least. I must say that SW had horrible acting but the groundbreaking special effects made up for that. LOTR has more all time lasting appeal, better acting and a more believable story. Both moviesagas are essential for any movielover.

Submitted by Andrés C. on Sat, 03/22/2008 - 04:35

This is an unanswerable question for me. Too difficult. I like them both the same.

They both are modern mythology! The greatest myths of the 20th Century.

Submitted by Vishnu Ram P. on Fri, 03/21/2008 - 14:00

Hey how can u vote for lord of rings .In first one it made me sleep dragging.but starwars as soon as title scrolls it gives u boost,it such a good script,movie.

Submitted by v m. on Fri, 03/21/2008 - 13:02

There is only one reason. I believe both story speaks the same behind the stories itself. It's in the core. But I _believe in Star Wars essence, because it has saved my life, in all sense of the word. Thank you Mr.Lucas !!! Even if all others should loose their faith, I'll not !!!!

Submitted by shajeed i. on Fri, 03/21/2008 - 08:36

Both are gseat movies but I have to say I prefer the lord of the rings.

Submitted by shandy s. on Thu, 03/20/2008 - 23:56

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Submitted by anakin v. on Wed, 03/19/2008 - 14:08

lord of the rings = for girls
star wars = for men

darth vader isn't dead!

Submitted by Joshua J. on Wed, 03/19/2008 - 04:16

Hey, a true Jedi cannot be beaten. Luke Skywalker has beaten scores of witches, if you ask me. Even if the wizards of LOTR may attack him with all their strength. They are living and therefore can be affected by the Force and can be repulsed by it.

Star Wars is technically the reason why we have all the special effects. Industrial Light and Magic was the first company spurred by Star Wars to create the stunning visual effects. (It's owned by Lucasfilm).

I have nothing against LOTR, it's a great novel series. I admit it's a nice movie, but Star Wars is the mother of it all. It was the mother of the best visual effects we have now and no one can refute that. It makes it the best because in spite of the low technology in the 1970s, Star Wars made it all possible for us to experience space and great visual effects. Simple!!

Submitted by Arien E. on Tue, 03/25/2008 - 22:07

sorry, joshua j, i love star wars, but "if you ask me" two hobbits with no special powers, and a horrible little creature saved the middle earth!! I couldn't say who would win in a fight between a Maia (an angel, and as you called them, wizards) and a Jedi, because the Maiar where the Jedi of the Middle Earth, and the Jedi were the Maiar of that galaxay, far, far away. And over evrything, its a non-sense "fight"

Submitted by Michel K. on Mon, 03/17/2008 - 11:02

I must say that even if I've seen bought of the movies, ST is cool but LOTR with his heroes is the must amazing film who it was maden and realised by hollywood and im not alone in that opinion.Thank you.

Submitted by marc c. on Sun, 03/16/2008 - 03:59

star wars is lord of the rings,at least to begin with,i was born in 1970,my father is a bookdealer,at the age of 7,i saw starwars whilst reading the hobbit,i first read lord of the rings just before seeing return of the jedi.i love both of them,i also love the harry potter series,they are all basically the same story set in different realities,starwars wins for me because i grew upwith it but that doesnt make it the best

Submitted by James S. on Tue, 03/18/2008 - 13:22

That is a very good point. It's all about good ultimately winning over evil.

Submitted by willy n. on Sat, 03/15/2008 - 21:00

ok this one is a hard one, i myself am a fan of both sagas, anyways lord of the rings is cool and all the special effects are also good, but remember that the trilogy has been realeased in the early 2000's, i mean they had more new technologies than the original star wars trilogy from the70's and 80's which still was good so in my opinion i think i like the star wars saga better

Submitted by chris n. on Thu, 03/13/2008 - 18:23

While I think Luke is a little bitch, Star Wars gets the nod. It is more creative, imaginative, and it's way cooler to get a lightsaber for Christmas than a piece of jewelery.

Submitted by Cody D. on Thu, 03/13/2008 - 07:33

Both the Star Wars saga and the Lord of the Rings Trilogy are epics in their own time. Both have romance, comedy, action, adventure, heroes and villains, and a plot to save the galaxy/earth. But George Lucas created Star Wars through his own works (and borrowed from others)- Peter Jackson made these movies as an adaptation of an already-told story. The Lord of the Rings had goblins, trolls, elves, and dwarves...fantasy elements that we've already heard of. Have you heard of a Rodian in other fantasy/sci fi works? How about a gundark? Or a bothan? Again, works that originated from Lucas. The visual and sound effects used the original Star Wars trilogy were legendary at the time, revolutionary, whereas Jackson used CG and other effects that were built and used for roughly ten years (albeit he did have his computer programmers develop a new program to use all the armies to have personalized minds, not singular). Star Wars also takes you to places that Middle Earth cannot, with vehicles and weapons that we've never seen. And you can't have an epic movie without good music, and John Williams' score for the saga is perhaps one of the best orchestrations of modern time. Keep in mind that I'm not putting down Howard Shore- he is great composer in his own right. Williams' was just...well, better. Overall, Star Wars for me is the better choice, and not just because of the cool lightsabers and spaceships.

Submitted by Arien E. on Tue, 03/25/2008 - 22:44

special effects do not count to make a good film or book in its contents. For those who like Star Wars (like me): Have you heard about a Maia, about Varda, Manwë or Morgoth, about Balrogs, about Hobbits, about Nazgûl, about a Silmaril? and there aren't stupid common elves, and there are no goblins!!
For those tho like Lord of the Rings (like me): Have you heard about ysalamiri, about vornskrs, about a Bantha, about a Hutt, about Stratts, about an Acklay or Tusken?
And one last thing, is not an argument between two movies, is an argument between a movie and a BOOK written by just ONE original and professional writer. And if Lucas and Tolkien met, I'm sure the would say "This is our legacy: a fight between two stupid bands whot try to deicde the most stupid and irrelevant thing on Earth." And we can't decide what's better: LOTR and SW are too SO different things!!!

Submitted by James S. on Thu, 03/13/2008 - 12:36

Yeah but I mean come on. The light sabers and spaceships are pretty friggen cool.

Submitted by michael p. on Wed, 03/12/2008 - 21:04

i think our good friend randle from clerks hits the nail right on the head in clerks II. enough said. star wars

Submitted by Felicia P. on Wed, 03/12/2008 - 09:10

I must say that even if I've seen bought of the movies, I can't say that one of them is better without a long time of thinking and I'm still not sure I did make the right choose. But if you first of all takes a look at Star Wars is episod I II and III way much better made than the other ones and it's true that lotr maybe is better made then all of the Star Wars. But the contents is better in Star Wars Special episod I II and III and still I'm totaly stuck in lotr. I love bought of the movies and if I first takes a look at lotr I say "This is the best movie I ever seen and then I takes a look at Star Wars and Says the same thing, but right now, I have to say that Star Wars is WAY better then lord of the Ring. (Even if Lotr rocks Star Wars episod I II and III is kind of better)(Especialy episod III even if I don't like the end.)

Submitted by Jacob B. on Wed, 03/12/2008 - 01:34

Although they are both awesome movies and alternate movie series, Star Wars is, with no doubt in my mind, better then LOTR.

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