SW VS. LOTR: The End

[tomandshell]

Well, our fifteen week poll marathon pitting Star Wars against Lord of the Rings is now finished, and we have a winner!

With a final score of 8 victories to 7, the winner by one poll is...

FINAL POLL RESULTS:
1. Han Solo (39) VS. Aragorn (80)
2. Obi-Wan Kenobi (41) VS. Gandalf (62)
3. C-3PO & R2-D2 (44) VS. Merry & Pippin (42)
4. Luke (56) VS. Frodo (40)
5. Darth Maul (62) VS. Lurtz (28)
6. Chewbacca (41) VS. Gimli (44)
7. Count Dooku (19) VS. Saruman (65)
8. General Grievous (58) VS. Gothmog (29)
9. Princess Leia (26) VS. Legolas (39)
10. Darth Vader (61) VS. The Witch King (21)
11. Lando (23) VS. Boromir (52)
12. Mace Windu (38) VS. King Theoden (47)
13. Padme (45) VS. Arwen (53)
14. Boba Fett (44) VS. The King of the Dead (23)
15. Yoda (49) VS. Gollum (23)


Thanks to everybody who participated over the last several weeks. I have had fun coming up with the pairings and seeing the results. My apologies to those who didn't like the match ups, or didn't get to see their favorite character included. (See below...)

As promised, there is a prize in this final week. I have a Revenge of the Sith Deluxe Clone Trooper mini-bust from Gentle Giant that will be shipped free to the person who posted response #42 (Don't Panic!) in this week's thread. Looks like that person was...

BANNISTER!!! ​

So Bannister, if you would be so kind as to PM me with your mailing address I will get your clone out to you. If you like, I can also send you a red crayon, which will allow you to turn it into a Shock Trooper instead.

Now, before we say goodbye, I would also like to share some of the pairings that didn't make the final cut. Feel free to continue to discuss which saga has the greater characters based on these additional pairings, but as for now the official polls are all done. Thanks--and Happy New Year to you all!!!

 

[King Darkness]

Thanks Tom, it was fun!!!!


And Kurgrats to Bannister, yet another viktory for the Krusade!!!!!

 

[tomandshell]

THE POLL "OUTTAKES"...

Emperor Palpatine VS. Sauron

The Rancor VS. The Balrog

Supreme Chancellor Valorum VS. Denethor

Jango Fett VS. Éomer

Jabba the Hutt VS. The Cave Troll​

And a few more...

 

[King Darkness]

This was the one I was waiting for.

Emperor Palpatine VS. Sauron

And I would have voted Palpatine.


Also I would have voted as follows.

1:Balrog

2: Denethor

3:Eomer

4:Jabba

 

[tomandshell]

Qui-Gon Jinn VS. Faramir

Mon Mothma VS. Galadriel

Aayla Secura VS. Eowyn

Royal Guard VS. Fountain Guard

Jabba's Fat Dancing Chick VS. A Mûmak

Cloud City's "Ice Cream Maker Guy" VS. Helm's Deep's "One Eyed Rohirrim"







AND OF COURSE:

Baron Papanoida VS. The Corsair Boatswain








THE END ​

 

[King Darkness]

1:Faramir

2:Galadriel

3:Eowyn

4: Royal Guard

5: Jabba's Fat Dancing Chick

6:Cloud City's "Ice Cream Maker Guy"

7:The Corsair Boatswain

 

[tomandshell]

Well, I don't know...

I definitely prefer the one eyed Rohirrim to Ice Cream Maker guy. He doesn't run in the face of danger, he defiantly stands up to it despite his complete lack of depth perception.

 

[Darth Madden]

Dang, I completely missed the last 2.. oh well, I would have voted for Yoda and Fett anyway. Love some of those other machups. Nice job Tom. Kind of sad to see Star Wars go down.

 

[LOTRFan]

True Tom, not to mention he started the fight in the first place with that quick release arrow!

Grats Bannister, your prolific use of payed off.

 

[The Josh]

Congrats to Bannister!!

Some of those would have been fun votes.

You can't go wrong liking these two stories really and liking both as I do. I feel like a double winner.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Baron Papanoida VS. The Corsair Boatswain

I wonder who would win here. Papanoida I would guess.


Thanks for all the fun for the last 15 weeks, Tom! I can't believe 15 weeks flew by that quickly. Awesome job!

 

[Vader AL]

i'm appealing this outcome...bs...SW would dominate!!!

 

[Agent23]

Thanks for the polls Tom. They were fun. And, I am glad LotR came out on top.

One ring to rule them all!

Congrats Bannister!

 

[Batty]

Congrats Bannister!

Hey Tom, I really enjoyed the polls every week. Thanks for keeping us entertained. I think the Emperor vs. Sauron would have been a good one for us to debate.

One more thing: The Ice Cream Maker Guy.

 

[Wetanut]

i'm appealing this outcome...bs...SW would dominate!!!

But these polls showed that it didn't.

 

[Wor-Gar]

But these polls showed that it didn't.

I wonder what would have bigger lines on opening night:

Star Wars Episode 7 or The Hobbit

 

[tomandshell]

I think the the literary background of LOTR can't help but produce richer characters with more depth. If you add the depth from Tolkien to the cinematic sensibilities of PJ then you have great movie characters. Lucas also gave us some great archetypal characters, but they don't quite stand up to LOTR in terms of depth and character development. It is interesting to see the parallels between the two sagas--both creators understood the basics of mythical storytelling and the various character types needed to produce a good saga. I would argue that Lucas had the tougher job--I think it would be more difficult to create compelling and memorable characters in a few moments of screen time compared to hundreds of pages in a novel, where you can go into great detail about their thoughts and back stories. It's always a challenge to show what a character is thinking or remembering on screen. PJ had the benefit of all that information and depth from the novel when bringing the characters of LOTR to the big screen.

 

[The Josh]

Yeah, but really in the OT it was the other guys that Lucas let direct that I think gave them life. His writing ability pretty much sucks and I think that's why in the PT you can see it where people feel it's weaker than the OT. Tolkien new how to write and PJ knew how to bring it to life and not fix what wasn't broke while adding some of his own strong writing into parts that where changed. I believe PJ, Fran, etc are better writers than Lucas by a mile. Hence why I think LOTR is the stronger of the two when you also factor in Tolkien.

 

[galactiboy]

Wonderful job on these polls!!! I've really enjoyed participating and reading everyones responses.

Even though as a SW fan I'm a bit dissapointed I can respect the outcome. But I do have one question... why no competition between the ring and the force? I thought that would have been a fun one.

 

[sladesuperagent]

Wonderful job on these polls!!! I've really enjoyed participating and reading everyones responses.

Even though as a SW fan I'm a bit dissapointed I can respect the outcome. But I do have one question... why no competition between the ring and the force? I thought that would have been a fun one.

Agreed. How 'bout Lucas v. Jackson? I voted mostly SW the entire time, but I throw a vote Jackson's way mostly b/c George is a ******.







Come to think of it...a lot of people named George are douches.