I get that Lucas was inspired by The Lord of the Rings. I find attempts at finding parallels between the stories to be a bit strained. Example, one web site compares Yoda to Gollum, because of appearance. The same web site compares Darth Vader to Gollum, because both cut off an appendage of the hero. The same web site compares Darth Vader to Saruman, because, you know, dark wizards. If you are arguing that Gollum is both Yoda and Darth Vader, then I think you're lost your battle with yourself.

I find The Lord of the Rings harder and harder to read over time. It is very much anchored in an Anglo-Saxon worldview with an obsession on "blood purity" that borders on Nazism (somehow Aragorn's blood "ran true" to Numenor, making him better than everyone else and fit to be king - unlike Boromir, who was jealous and morally weaker). Some men went West (Germanic Migration) to the blessed isle (Newfoundland), others did not. First they came back to Middle Earth (an amalgamation of England and Germanic lands) as raiders (Saxon/Vikings), eventually they took their rightful place as lords over lesser men, hobbits (Welsh/Irish) and savage hillmen (Scotsmen).

Sauron gathered swarthy men and sub-humans (orcs, half-orcs etc.) to assail the West. Sauron's first blanket of darkness is an analogy for the Mongol invasion. The "current" attempt to dominate the West is an analogy for saving Europe from Islam. The Battle of Minas Tirith is an analogy for the defense of Vienna against the Turks. The Riders of Rohan in the Battle of Minus Tirith play the same role that the Polish Hussars played in the Battle of Vienna.

Star Wars, whatever its flaws, doesn't suffer from these.