Ernest Borgnine or Bea Arthur?
Freddie "Boom Boom" Washington or Jimmy "Dyno-mite" Walker?
HK Rowlings or JR Tolkien?
Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf or Beetlejuice?
Ally McBeal or George Stephanopoulis?
Charles Manson or John Wayne Gacy?
Ernest Borgnine or Bea Arthur? Bea Arthur. Borgnine has slightly more body hair (to be pulled during a scrap).
Freddie "Boom Boom" Washington or Jimmy "Dyno-mite" Walker? Walker: Catchphrases rule!
HK Rowlings or JR Tolkien? Tolkien. Intelligence is power.
Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf or Beetlejuice? Beetlejuice. Magic v. profanity? Get real.
Ally McBeal or George Stephanopoulis? Stephanopolus. Better nutrition.
Charles Manson or John Wayne Gacy? Gacy. He did his own dirty work (sometimes dressed as a clown, IIRC).
Bea Arthur
Freddie Washington
Tolkien
Hank
Ally
Gacy
Simple reasons why in each circumstance.
Your point?
Fact of the matter is, Tolkien is literature that tells a good story and deals with the nature of evil, large philosophical questions and mythology in a way that deepens and adds to the mythology. Rowling simplifies and diminishes the mythology from which she draws and eliminates any of the truly important questions of the consequences of choice. JK Rowling's books epitomize the post-modern amateurism of late twentieth century writing. While a good read, they are amateurish in the extreme with no point other than the ooh and aah value of the use of mythos. In other words, the book equivalent of a "special effects" action movie.