re: How much of a joke is it that Star Wars was ever thought to be equal to Lord of the Rings?

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Baw. If you approached 100 random people on the street and asked them if they knew what book / movie Sharon, Gollum, and Frodo were in

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Sharon?

EDIT: Was that auto corrected from Sauron? I mean, maybe Darth Vader may be in the more common vernacular as pure evil… but Sauron would clearly be the #2 most instantly known as that at worst under Vader or Satan. And Vader has been undermined with that given his arc, to where I still think Sauron would be the character most instantly identifiable as evil that people would say.

And the One Ring is the most obvious metaphor to the temptation and destruction of power. It’s just brilliant where that symbolism will stand the test of time where no matter what ultimate power is there, it will always be embodied by the One Ring.