Apples and cinderblocks, people. Apples and cinderblocks. SRD did not simply take what JRRT wrote and somehow go further with it. He went in an entirely different direction. JRRT's books deal primarily with an external spirituality. Eru, the Valar, the Ring as an external Evil, etc. If your own theo...

As others have pointed out, this isn't a contest. Both are great authors in their own way. It's kinda funny, but I've often described TCTC as the "anti-LOTR" because the two are so different. LOTR is about the fate of the world. TCTC is primarily about this guy saving himself. LOTR is fill...