The Lord of the Rings movie series in superior to the Star Wars movie series.

I will rebuttal some of your rebuttals against my initial ones before making any new ones. "1. Merchandise sales do not make a movie good. Transformers sell more merchandise than almost any other franchise, but the movies are terrible." I never said anywhere that merchandise sells made Star Wars a good movie. ANYWHERE. I simply am bringing up more accomplishments that Star Wars has over Lord Of The The Rings, and transformers certainly does not sell more merchandise than Star Wars does. If we are going to be judging two film series against one another, about what had better what, then you gotta put in some facts cause otherwise, everything else is just an opinion like the story, the characters, and yadda yadda. So it's only right to include how much Star Wars has sold over Lord Of The Rings. In the common world, that generally almost means something is better if it's sold more with exceptions like Justin Bieber selling more CD's than most artist, and rather some other obscure things. This means A: More people are into Star Wars. B: Star was is more well known. - Star Wars It's worth noting and correcting myself from a typo I made earlier. I originally tried to say that Lord Of The Rings has grossed more in theaters than Star Wars. WAY MORE, but still Isn't AS POPULAR, or well known in culture like Star Wars, and doesn't sell as nearly much merchandise. To me, that's a testament from a old film series. "2. Yes, the matter of which story is better is opinion, but I would argue the depth of the lore is what makes LOTR better. Tolkien worked on his universe for decades, while Lucas wrote SW a couple of years before filming began. LOTR has a massive story structure that SW just doesn't have. Different groups/races/aliens/planets are mentioned in SW that audiences just accept as canon. In LOTR, these groups have entire languages, songs, histories, religions/mythologies, etc. that are actually written into the story and can be traced to real substantiated origins by the audience." Again, an opinion, but since you going in depth into detail, I will say that Star Wars story was more so a story than Lord Of The Rings. Outside the first Lord Of The Rings movie, the dialogue was far in between cause the last two films were mostly just action, especially the third. Is that what you call a story? Action? Action....... Action? Might as well just say Transformers is the most told story in any movie to date cause that's pretty much all that it consisted of was action and fighting. Star Wars went above and beyond with dialogue. Namely all the characters had a lore of some sort more so than any of the Lord Of The Rings characters. AGAIN, outside of Gandalf, you had no memorable characters, while as for Star Wars, you had tons and tons. Some people love Yoda, some love Darth Vader, some love Skywalker, and it goes on and on, LOTR doesn't have those characters. Again, you call that story and a deeper lore than that of SW? Laughs. At it's very simplistic, Lord Of The Rings was more or so about destroying a ring. (I mean, if we going to talk lores, and character creation, obviously Star Wars is by far the clear winner.. BY FAR). Now... if you were to mention the books, and their lores (which is totally irrelevant to this debate, that would have given LOTR a chance, but even then, not much is known about the characters). So having all those languages in LOTR was merely meant for a cool factor as it meant very little to nothing since again, most people are only familiar with gandalf, and the dialogue seemed to have slipped away after the first film which to me, in my opinion was the best of the trilogy. Sure, LOTR had a more richer look to its story, and is appealing by todays standards, but shiny isn't always better, even with the better acting. Also, Lord Of The Rings did take awhile into the movie before it even got interesting. Star Wars was actually MORE CREATIVE. Only downside, it was just flawed, but who's to say a campy style film is bad? It's entertaining. -Star Wars 3: You came back at me with acting naming another big success in the roles of Mark Hamill? I mean do I really need to name one? Almost anyone with certainty would know Mark Hamill quite well as he was one of the voices of the Joker, and regarded to be the best joker voice ever by many. To me, that's a huge success, and I don't see him running around broke. (As for Mark, he isn't a bust). Carrie on the other hand.. Sure, her career was launched and she is a bust, but none the less, being in a film like Star Wars opened the door for many of the actors/actresses. Again, who are the Lord Of The Ring actors? Although I wouldn't give Star Wars a clear win for this category, it certainly has some well known actors (known world wide as for LOTR doesn't have ANY known world wide to the extent). Most people couldn't even tell you the actors who played gandalf. 4: Well, IMDb did score the ratings higher for Lord Of The Rings, that is a win for LOTR -LOTR but isn't saying much as Star Wars ranked heavily in itself. ' 5: Lord Of The Rings DID NOT open the door to fantasy. Star Wars did, as in fantasy clearly was/is a genre of Star Wars, even said by IMDb although most know it as a sci-fi. Again, Star Wars has done way more for the film industry as a whole than Lord Of The Rings and made perhaps the biggest impact ever in culture than any film ever. When you go to comic con, who do you see more of mostly? How did those highly detailed costumes go? Last I checked, comic con is filled with people dressing as characters from SW but again like I said, Star Wars had more memorable characters, interesting dialogue, and the movies weren't just filled with action. If you were to type in Original Star Wars VS Lord Of The Rings, and read tons of comments from every website, the majority is screaming Star Wars. Obviously, the impact is so much greater. Now going back to budgets and stuff, for its time, Star Wars had things never seen before in film when it released. It was like the Atari to Nintendo with everything going on. For that alone, that's impressive given the technology back then. Lord Of The Rings is now a afterthought in culture and in movies unless you go to debates like this, and ask people to name their favorite trilogies but all across the world, people celebrate Star Wars, it's clear who the real winner is.