Well, we will have to wait for several centuries to check if the comparison really holds up. As the linked text points out, LOTR has many obvious problems, and

Well, we will have to wait for several centuries to check if the comparison really holds up. As the linked text points out, LOTR has many obvious problems, and it can be easily construed as pompous nonsense, but it is still massive, in a league of its own, etc. (As an aside, Mervyn Peake’s trilogy is 100% better literature, but who cares, basically.)