Why didn't the mice just ethnically cleanse the vermin?

http://www.somethingawful.com/news/bargain-book-bin-3/

Dear Mr. Jacques,

I must say that your letter made me very alarmed and hungry. To begin, with all due respect, I question the use of your swastika envelopes.

>>8741714
how the fuck did mice tame horses?

i really liked these books when i was a kid.

Ok now that I know that someone else has read this book in real life besides that one kid from high school that I later found out was forced to give a man oral sex (raped) at gunpoint...

This needs to be made into a brutal, game of thrones-Esque animated film so bad.

>>8742300
id watch that(the animated show.kek).
i know theyre children's novels but i feel like they'd fit really well into an adult animated series.

>>8742278
the animals are closer in size than irl iirc, which is why otters/etc. didnt just btfo everybody

>>8742358
And yet beavers did for some reason.

I have a few Redwall books in my audiobook collection. They go all out for voicework and the insufferable musical numbers that crop up a bit too often. They are formulaic but sufficiently amusing when one's goal is to forget the manual labor being done and focus a wandering mind away from the tedium of it. I suppose you can call a Redwall book "Brittish",where the peaceful inhabitants have to deal with their own eccentrisities while fending off some invading alien force,and finding the time to eat enormous dinners between battles. The Wind in the Willows comes to mind as a similarity,but with more graphic violence. Part of the appeal to this jaded reader here:characters in Redwall books can literally be skipping about singing a jolly tune,then driving sharp steel into an enemy's innards.I remember some from a bookI have,but forget which,that were Jolly fellows who Kill. Three rabbit Long Patrol scouts from Salamandastron were were all Tiddle Widdly while at the Abbey,then when encountering Vermin,set about them with a fierce glee. I'm sure there must be at least ONE book in the series where the small fuzzy inhabitants put down their forks for a moment and contemplated a Preemptive Strike on the Vermin Army Du Jour. I have one where a Vermin is almost rehabilitated,some Fox,but I forget his ultimate fate.

I guess Good Beasts don't go around starting fights,but will happily finish them in gruesome detail. It makes one late for dinner,I've heard.

this guy was incredibly descriptive when it came to food and landscapes.

>>8741714
Because its a book for children? Can't redpill the children like that, goy.

>>8741754
This is brilliant. Worth the thread alone.
>>8742278
Redwall was the only one in the series where the animals had their original sizes. In every other book all the animals are about the same size. Cluny was whipping a horse with his tail on one cart with 500 vermin on it, the cat aristocrat was gigantic, the owl was huge, the sparrows were huge and could carry mice, etc.
>>8742387
Don't remember that one.