Lord of The Rings vs Game of Thrones

I never really got into Lord of The Rings when I was younger and when the movies came out but now I am watching the films and am pretty invested, I plan on reading the books after.

Game of Thrones had me hooked from the beginning, and I’ve rewatched it 3 times. It’s a tough call which one I enjoy more, the politics in Game of Thrones was very captivating and of course the fantasy elements in Lord of the rings are hard to beat.

What’s your guys favorite?

I only ever read The Fellowship of the Ring, and I've never seen or read any Game of Thrones, so Lord of the Rings by default, because I'm stuffy like that.

Sorry, not much use to the thread there.

Having seen all of both and having read a little of both, I'm going to have to go with LOTR. I do love GoT, though, even if the quality sort of slacked towards the end.

The LOTR films are masterpieces as far as I am concerned, one of the first great movie series at the early 21st century. The Hobbit series wasn't great, but it was still pretty damn entertaining. I'm not sure how you turn a book a short as The Hobbit into a three-part movie series, but oh well I'm not complaining.

One of these days I will have to read The Fellowship of the Ring all the way through. I think I got as far as Tom Bombadil and the Tree people (Ent?) congress.

I don't know if I can be bothered to continue reading GoT. I love some of the characters but they are pretty dense books in my opinion.

Would've said Game of Thrones if they didn't fck up the last season.

LOTR movies are art, The Hobbit movies are entertainment made to make money.

The books though. Both The Hobbit and LOTR are written for what feels like a very different audience than we are today. Still. Will read the books again. Hopefully sooner rather than later.

Game of Thrones. Even with the last season, which in hindsight was still pretty amazing TV….just didn’t live up to previous seasons. Love LoTR though, especially the battle scenes - they nailed those, as did the Battle of the Bastards episode on GoT.

Yeah I felt people were needlessly harsh on that last season or two of GoT. It wasn't bad, it just wasn't as good.

I've read a few books from authors of the early and mid 20th century, and yeah...sometimes they feel a bit flowery in their language. Like you're reading it and they take ten pages to describe something.

I think the last book I read was The Longships which was written in the 1940's and translated into English from Norwegian or something. It was very good but sometimes a struggle. It feels like you're reading something written by intellegencia, like a stereotypical stuffy professor in a library who just drones on and on and on...

I think that was just the style of the time, maybe?

Also, what's the old adage about science fiction and fantasy? "Fantasy will spend 10 pages telling you the history of a door. Science fiction will spend 10 pages telling you how the door works"

@mrbojangles25: I have a lovely/hate relationship with the flowery language. I think it tends to do relatively little to enhance the LOTR books, but it is amazing in something like Lovecraft. Poe and Love raft, I'd argue, NEED it to establish atmosphere and tone. It HELPS in something like Dickens, but I'd argue that modern contemporaries like King prove that Dickensian storytelling can still succeed without it.

I know what Tolkien was going for, it just doesn't work for me, tbh. But High Fantasy is a hard sell for me in general, too.

Lord of the Rings. Game of Thrones did not stick the landing.

LotR I guess, I never saw Game of Thrones

Love the Lotr movies, however I find the books pretty average tbh. Got show is great, despite a lackluster ending! The books start out awesome, but turns out pretty mid later on and I doubt they will ever be finished! But yeah much better fantasy books out there imo

LOTR by default, since Georgey never finished the GoT books and we never got the proper conclusion to the story. whatever tripe the TV writers came up with certainly doesn't change that situation.

LoTR is also just one of the most influential pieces of fiction ever and a pretty epic adventure to boot.