Lots of people on this board seem very tired of this argument, so they probably do find the comparison between SRD and JRRT odious. That doesn't mean comparison isn't possible, or useful. I was also just being lazy and quoting a proverb.
For a good example of an odious comparison, try John Donne's Elegy VIII: www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/elegy8.htm It's nasty, full of "menstrous boils" and "frothy sweat" and "a worm sucking an envenom'd sore." And written by a guy born in 1572.