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Not that the Lord of the Rings films weren't great and well acted esp. the actor who played Aragorn - but in terms of literature Tolkien is inferior.
Although HP Lovecraft, Michael Moorcock, Robert E. Howard and Fritz Leiber are from the Weird Tales era of pulp fiction, their stories are far more dynamic, imaginative, stylistic but at same time darker, more gothic, inspired and are far more effective at creating and defining a mood for the Fantasy, Sci Fi genre. The overall tone of the Weird Tales era is much more psychological and horrific, much in the same way Poe was superior to the peers of his genre Shelley, HG Wells, Robert Bloch, Bradbury, Asimov or Bram Stoker.
We will agree to disagree.