STAR WARS : A boy almost fucks his sister and kills his father. Sounds like somebody had an Oedipus complex. LORD OF THE RINGS: Some shit happens and people want to destroy this ring and blah blah the end. Star Wars wins.
Comparing LoTR with SW is like comparing apples with oranges, one is fantasy and the other is scifi, one is for rp fags and the other for nerdfags. I prefer LoTR but I will never says that is better than SW.
I'll take LOTR over starwars any day, I just think the films are genuinely better made than starwars.
I found the LOTR films to be far too long and utterly boring/mindless. Plus it's full of plotholes. Of course, I only like TESB of the Star Wars films so maybe I'm just too hard to please. Sexually.
It really annoys me that gandalf was at several battles and sieges, and the only magic he uses is some shitty little beams of light to scare off the nazguls. Not kill them mind, just startle them a little. Shit, even saruman threw a fireball before he fell on that spike.