I will never take away from Tolkien the shear scope of the world he has created and the immense details and Mythos of his worlds.

What I will take from him is his writing itself is boring as piss, and has an inability to create a good atmosphere in the entirety of his Lord of the Rings Trilogy, something that a person like H.P. Lovecraft can do in even his bad short stories. (Of course he only has a couple that are bad, and it may be unfair of me to compare anyone's ability to create an atmosphere like Lovecraft can. )

Edit: And I'll agree that on a whole Quinten is overrated, but when he makes a good movie, damn is it good. Inglorious Bastards was freaking amazing.