[quote=@ArenaSnow]
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Different premises. LOTR has elves, dwarves, ents, Balrogs, hobbits, mordor, wizards, gods and various other bits - GOT, by comparison, has rare (and at this point just a few) dragons, humans as the dominantly most common species (wildlings and humans, the main divergence - wildlings still being humans), and a force of undead that aren't as of yet that well explained.

You can do as you will, and I'd be a bad person to dissuade divergence in some part from canons, but the main thing here is that I just don't see high-fantasy godly characters fitting in this universe a fraction as effectively as LOTR, a universe built around high fantasy (built high fantasy in the first place?).
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Lord of the Rings is low magic, even if High Fantasy. Gandalf the White, or Galadriel could probably defeat Aldarin anyway.