I am not really in a position to make a claim about the Star Wars versus Star Trek battle, as I have not seen enough Star Trek to have an informed opinion on the matter. However, I can say with certainty that Lord of the Rings is better than Harry Potter. The first reason is the depth of the world created in Lord of the Rings. While Rowling created a slight wizarding world, the bulk of the world in which her story occurs is the actual world. Tolkien, on the other hand, created a massive world in which his story occurred. The thing which truly sets Tolkien’s world apart from other fictional worlds is the level of depth that he went to in creating it. Tolkien actually invented several fully functional languages to be used in middle earth and developed the history of the world thoroughly in the Silmarillion, which reads like a textbook due to the level of detail that is used. Rowling has a shallow history for her world which basically serves only to set the background for her story, which makes her fictional world inferior to Tolkien’s. Even assuming the rest of their merits were the same, which they aren’t, the level of detail that Tolkien goes to makes his work vastly superior to Rowling’s.
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