There was a bit of sarcastic comment here when AS Byatt pronounced Rivendell as Riy-vendell
I liked how they got across that Tolkien is just inescapable for any fantasy writer. That's something I've been saying for a while, and it's why you get so many writers who will ferociously say how 'they' are not like Tolkien - an unfortunate thing, but he is just inescapable no matter how much a writer might deny him!
It's interesting how you get people who can't read Tolkien because they find his prose too heavy, yet then you have Peake who has an even more ponderous style!
Maybe people say they like Peake better urely because of this 'inescapability' factor to Tolkien? They feel they must say something else is better? Or maybe it is due to the way Tolkien portrays character, which is not in the modern style; we don't 'see' inside their heads like you do with Peake, we see what their characters are like via their actions, as in the Sagas and old epics. People seem to go more for psychological analysis with characters these days.