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Originally Posted by Happy_Fish
I guess I just don't get the hype for LOTR since I was already a fantasy reader / video game RPG player long before I ever picked up The Hobbit (which I thought was decent). I didn't even get through the LOTR trilogy because the story progressed so damned slowly. It probably would have been different if LOTR was my introduction to the genre, as seems to be the case for a lot of people.
Comparing those two is actually the real bad thing that happened ITT. In a way it is like comparing the apple to the apple tree.
LOTR is a finished product. Both films and books. The books are from a different time and the movies were apparently made for fans of the book's, uh, long pace. Tolkien's works did spawn most of the entire genre's standard elements. Possibly all that fantasy you read or played connects back to a variation of one Tolkien theme or another.
GOT isn't even a film, but an episodic TV adaption of a book series that itself is still a work in progress. And look it does have some magic and non-human monsters marching in armies and dragons. And boobs. Gotcha J.R.R.!