i'd argue against middle earth, at least the film version. if you're talking about the book, obviously Tolkien was the first to really create a full fantasy world, but by the time the movies came out we had seen middle earth done countless times over in video games. LOTR and Star Wars also had the advantage of being trilogies, so it wouldn't be fair to compare them to Avatar until Cameron has a chance to flesh out his universe a bit more. and as he has stated a desire to do more movies based on the other worlds around Pandora, i doubt all there will be to his world is blue natives and glow in the dark plants
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