LOOKS LIKE TAXES ARE BACK ON OUR MENU BOYS
did i miss a meme
>What about breakfast tax?
>I've already paid it.
>You've paid one, yes. What about second breakfast tax?
>[Aragorn turns and walks away]
>I don't think he knows about second breakfast tax, Pip.
You shall pay taxes!
this isn't even funny
at all
>>79433114
you still posted tho XD XD
MAY THE TAX OF THE BLACK TAX COME TAX LMAO
Fr*ggin love memes
>>79433114
yes, but what about the taxes
>>79432948
WHY CAN'T WE HAVE SOME DEDUCTIBLES?
>A wizard never pays his taxes late, Frodo Baggins. Nor does he pay them early. He pays them precisely when he means to.
>>79433114
but grrm made fun of my reddit favorite movie and book series that isn't game of thrones!!
Nobody taxes a Dwarf!
What about their extended rate longterm adjustable mortgages? They don't need those.
A DAY MAY COME WHEN QUANTATIVE EASING FAILS BUT IT IS NOT THIS DAY
BANE BANE
BANE
BANE
>>79433170
HANDS OFF, MEAL AND ENTERTAINMENT DEDUCTION IS FOR SARUMAN ONLY
>>79433049
>>79433199
Perfect
>>79433234
fucking kek
End?
No, the taxes doesn't end here. Income taxes are just another tax, one we must all pay.
>My dear Frodo. Hobbits really are amazing creatures. You can learn all there is to know about their ways in a month, and yet after a hundred years they still won't pay their taxes.
>>79432993
something something rr martin something hack something taxation
BUY, YOU FOOLS!
Taxes! From Washington!
>>79433234
fucking died
good on ya m8
>>79433210
>>79433320
oh so that fat hack from bayonne made fun of lotr and now the fedoras are meme-ing?
got it.
it's a nerd civil war featuring the least respectable nerd factions.
i will prepare for the inevitable mountain dew shortage.
i can't carry it for you, frodo
but i can claim you as a dependent
>>79433324
You have my sword. AND MY TAX!
>They have a cave tax
>>79433371
LOL
>>79433210
>>79433358
This completely innocent fun sure is pissing reddit off
Let them come. There is one Dwarf yet in Moria who still pays his taxes!
No parent should have to bury their dependent.
>>79432948
>no tax can stop me
>I am not tax, I am interest
Do you think he had low corporation tax to help promote industry?
Why did Aragorn murder the ambassador at the Black Gate?
He was a non-combatant, I think that would have carried serious diplomatic repercussions in the international community.
>>79433458
Is this you?
>>79433358
>nerd civil war
no, literally no one cares, it's just kekkable
>>79433233
Keke'd
>>79433324
10/10
What is this new meme?
>>79433499
ah, good. meme away.
nice dubs tho
>>79433525
>Ruling is hard. This was maybe my answer to Tolkien, whom, as much as I admire him, I do quibble with. Lord of the Rings had a very medieval philosophy: that if the king was a good man, the land would prosper. We look at real history and it’s not that simple. Tolkien can say that Aragorn became king and reigned for a hundred years, and he was wise and good. But Tolkien doesn’t ask the question: What was Aragorn’s tax policy? Did he maintain a standing army? What did he do in times of flood and famine? And what about all these orcs? By the end of the war, Sauron is gone but all of the orcs aren’t gone – they’re in the mountains. Did Aragorn pursue a policy of systematic genocide and kill them? Even the little baby orcs, in their little orc cradles? The war that Tolkien wrote about was a war for the fate of civilization and the future of humanity, and that’s become the template. I’m not sure that it’s a good template, though. The Tolkien model led generations of fantasy writers to produce these endless series of dark lords and their evil minions who are all very ugly and wear black clothes. But the vast majority of wars throughout history are not like that.
>>79433485
He thought they were gonna die, so he decided to at least go down as the baddest mofo who gave no shits
>>79433535
Glad we have your permission
>>79433525
I'm not sure but I kinda like it.
>>79433560
Sounds like he'd be right at home at /tv/ or /v/, fucking aspie
>never thought I’d die fighting side by side with a jew
>how about side by side with a friendly merchant?
>ay. I could do that.
>by the way do you have a life insurance policy?
>>79433626
lol
>>79433371
>>79433560
>Even the little baby orcs, in their little orc cradles?
This is just autism
>>79433371
Lol
>>79433560
And how come that hack Tolkien never explained how magic worked? Or how orcs bled despite coming from the mud? Glad we have GRRM to do a good two thirds of a grey, bland, realistic fantasy series
>>79433560
yeah tolkien the fucking hack
created detailed maps, family trees, history and languages, creation myths, but he didn't mention the fucking tax policy.
"A day may come when the taxation of men ends… but it is not THIS day."
what a fuckin asshole
>>79433049
What about second bailout?
>Papers...where are my tax papers?
>I filed your taxes.
>Then you did what I could not.
>>79433808
>an abundance of arbitrary trivia makes a work great
>this is what 'muh worldbuilding' fantasy fans actually believe
Fucking /film/ when lads?
>>79433391
Lost my shit
I speak to the Rabbi of the men of Bank Hapoalim. Will you see the Herfindahl-Hirschman index fulfilled? Will you share in the great wealth of our people?
>I wish I never had to pay taxes. I wish none of this had happened
>so do all who live to pay their taxes but that is not for them to decide. All you have to decide is what life insurance policy you want...
Like pottery
Wasnt that a bit excessive for a toll booth ?
>>79433870
fuckin kek
You can listen to this goy, but I promise you this: If we succeed, all will share in the wealth of Palestine. You will have enough shekels to rebuild Solomon's Temple ten times over!
>>79433560
>Even the little baby orcs, in their little orc cradles?
Didn't they spawn out of mud fully grown? He should have said little goblin babies, I think those breed normally
>>79433870
topical
>Even the smallest person can have taxable income.
elves are such pricks
>>79434067
Orcs and Goblins are the same thing, look at the census data
His treachery runs deeper than you know. By space-vampire inflation, Sarumann has crossed Yuros with ragheads. He's breeding an army in the ghettos of Paris, London, Berlin. An army that can move in sunlight and cover great distance at speed. Sarumann is coming for the Fort Knox.
R
S
Ps
>What's taxises, precious? What's taxises?
>Tax-es! Sort 'em, file 'em, pay 'em...lovely big taxes with nice deductibles.
>Spoiling nice income. Give it to us raw and g-g-g-gross, you keep nasty taxises.
>But my lord we dont have the means, there is not enough revenue
Public spending has awoken, it’s heard its master's call.
>>79434204
LMFAO
>>79434208
>The forest of Fangorn lies on our doorstep
>TAX IT
was Mordor a private organization? I feel like they lacked funding to create such an elaborate army. Who would fund such a thing? did they use a kickstarter?
I can avoid duties if I wish. But to not pay taxes entirely, that is a rare gift
My friends . . . you pay taxes to no one.
Come not between the Nazgul and his taxes! Or he will not process thee in thy turn. He will audit thee to the houses of lamentation, beyond all darkness, where thy income shall be devoured, and thy shriveled mind be left naked to the IRS.
>>79434208
>The equity of trees must decrease. Rip them all down!
Boromir! Give Frodo his tax returns!
>“I am Gandalf the Head of Household. And I come back to you now… as you turn in your taxes."
>>79434355
I AM NO GOY
They're paying their taxes to Isengard!They're paying their taxes to Isengard!They're paying their taxes to Isengard-gard-gard-gard!
>>79434387
>Saruman has a mind of GDP rates and trade balance
>He no longer cares for HDI
>Certainty of taxation. Small chance of deductible. What are we waiting for?
>>79433320
Didn't he say that years ago? Why is it just getting memed now?
>>79434355
Underrated
A meme is only as good as the original content it produces, im already seeing tons of copy pastas and reposts.
This meme wont last long
>>79434513
Slow and steady wins the race.
>>79434518
no
but I think
> what was his tax policy has entered the pantheon of lazy shitposting like "what did he mean by this"
>>79434518
good memes always die young.
>>79434518
theres been like one, the greece one
>>79434518
It's already dead because of how reddit approved the material its based on is
>>79434518
i've posted like ten in this thread, and they were all original. but they're mostly based on the lotr script and replaced a few words, so they're hardly ingenious.
>>79434204
Kek.
>>79434513
It's tax season and there was a troll thread a few hours ago about GRRM vs. Tolkien with that quote.
So, in true /tv/ fashion, we are taking our autism for the Lord of the Rings films and are now Taxposting based on that quote.
This isn't hard to follow friend.
>>79432993
We had a joke thread about GRRM and taxes in LOTR but sadly every joke is a meme now and has to be run into the ground.
>>79434547
Yeah, I'll probably do this. I think people have been spoiled by baneposting. Not all memes will have a massive underlying mythology.
>>79434657
link to that thread?
>>79433114
it's a daring synthesis, and involves two autistic fanbases. i welcome it.
>>79434797
That quote was posted a lot last year, probably even earlier, I don't know when grrm first said it. But it never really catched on until now.
>>79433870
well meme'd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liCMDsjrCU8
>>79434518
We should raid GoT general desu
WHO IS WITH ME
>>79435039
for death
>>79435099
Well I am off, see you there
>>79433114
>this isn't even funny
>at all
literally /tv/ since 2014
>>79434254
Perfect
>>79435039
You'll be banned because those are sponsored threads by HBO
>>79435039
FORTH EORLINGAS
>By my life or death I can pay you, I will. You have my 1095 form.
>>79434768
you're a big tax
>>79435528
>AND MY TAX
>>79433560
What an Autistic Tosser
>>79433234
>>79433371
Jesus christ.
Good god, what is going on? /tv/ seems to be outputting top quality memes this month.
>>79435589
>And you have my 401k!
>>79433560
Say it with me lads
H A C K
>>79434204
AND MY TAX
>>79433371
I approve.
It is a strange thing that we should suffer so much capital gains tax over so small a return. Such a little holding period.
Pay it!
No.
>>79433486
>mfw I look like a white version of that guy
>>79435769
KEK
>>79435850
i was there 6 months ago when the strength of men's liquidity failed
>>79435879
ahahahah
>>79435879
Gandalf: "There is one who could unite them, one who could reclaim the tax of Gondor."
Elrond: "He turned from that path long time ago. He has chosen Cayman Islands."
FIGHT FOR ME AND I'LL CONSIDER THE TAXES PAID
>>79435769
11/10
>tfw man child so dont understand how banks and mortgages work so cant partake in memes
this is all just some super autistic guy working for the irs trying to make memes out of his miserable lonely life on valentines day
"What chance do you think you have? They will find you! They will take your money and you will beg for death before the end!"
Perhaps he's wondering why someone would pay their taxes, before calculating their deductibles?
>>79435769
>One does not simply tax evade from the Treasury. It is surrounded on all sides by gigantic bank conglomerates and the great IRS is ever watchful. Not with 10,000 tax attorneys could you do this. It is folly.
easily the worst meme /tv/ has ever produced by farapart from pest posting
>>79436081
Easily the best.
>>79435989
>You need people of intelligence to balance this short of fund...., revenue...., thing!
If you want a childcare rebate come and claim him
>We shall increase our revenue twice fold with our new policies.
>But my lord there is no such tax
>>79436081
LotRposting has consistently been top-tier in terms of OC and memery because everyone on here loves the films and can quote the shit out of it.
I would say it is second only to Baneposting in terms of longevity and frequency of posts.
Sheevposting is pretty up there too.
Did we finally invent a meme too smart for Reddit to steal?
Let them come! There is one Dwarf yet in Moria who still banks offshore!
>i will not say "do not pay", for not all taxes are evil.
>>79436249
They have taken the office and the second condo. We have launched an appeal but cannot hold them for long. The premises loses its value. Bills, bills in the dawn. We cannot pay. A bailiff moves in the dark. We cannot pay.
>>79436076
>>79436115
>>79436159
>>79436195
>Its a pity Bilbo didnt bankrupt Gollum when he had the chance
>>79436239
>Well, we've had one anti-reddit meme yes. What about a second anti-reddit meme?
>>79436239
theyll just turn it into something against white people and donald trump
give it a few minutes
You fool, no man can tax me! Die now!
>>79436335
YOU ARE A FUCKING DUNEDAIN
>>79436297
I can't breathe
>>79436297
kek
The language is that of Obamacare which I will not utter here.
In common tongue it says:
"One Insurance to rule them all, One insurance to find them. One insurance to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them."
Well, this is a thing unheard of! An Elf would pay his taxes, when a Dwarf would not. Oh, I'd never hear the end of it.
You can always tell when a meme isn't going to last by how hard it is forced in the beginning. This is almost as bad as the suicide squad memes that only lasted 3 days.
>>79436297
>>79436076
Those are amazing
I actually learnt a few things too since english are not my mother tongue
>>79436418
>forced
>threads since yesterday
>64 posters in this thread
>>79436418
This "meme" won't last because it has not substance. It's just changing a few words from the movie lines. The first time it was funny but it got old really fast.
>>79436325
>Pity? It was pity that stayed Bilbo's rates. Many that live deserve Tax. Some that are Taxed deserve life. Can you Take it from them, Frodo? Do not be too eager to deal out Taxation in judgment. Even the very wise Accountants cannot see all ends.
>>79435936
should have just gone with DEBT
would have worked far better
Mist and shadow, cloud and shade - All the taxes... shall... be... paid
>>79436483
>>79436418
Beware that Grima Wormtongue /tv/
>>79436381
>The Alt-Right has turned Lord of The Rings (Nerd much?) into an Anti-Semetic Economics meme. Here's why this is important.
Upvoted
>>79436483
First we tax the other fantasy movies
Then we move to other genres
ALL SHALL PAY THE MEME TAX
>>79436418
Stay mad Thrones fag
>Gimli: I have taken my worst wound at this parting. Henceforth, I will call nothing a good investment except for that which she has given me.
>Legolas: What was it?
>Gimli: I asked for but one share of her stockholdings in the Grey Havens.
>She gave me three.
>>79433391
literal lol
>>79436344
>you have a diverse portfolio little hobbit, but that will not save your finances. You can no longer wait your bonds to mature Frodo. They're coming.
>I wish the taxes had never come to me
>So do all who see April 15, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is whether to take the standard or itemize deductions.
>>79436418
>>79436483
it has nothing to do with forcing or not, or lack of substanceor quality. only about how many people are willing to post it. probably not enough, since lotr is far from topical, unlike when bane started.
>>79433371
Tell me, friend, when did Saruman the wise abandon reason for TAXES
>>79436839
You're too young to know anything about household economics of basic tax planning so you try to contribute to the meme but fail by taking lines from the script that you've looked up on IMBD and merely replacing certain words with "taxes".
>>79436574
Underrated desu
>>79436925
>they have a shabbos goy
>>79436874
that's like 90% of the stuff itt
don't be so grumpy that no one is replying to yours
>So now I see, father....
>You wish that I had been audited and not Boromir.
>...Yes, I wish that...
>>79436949
>not "They have a golem"
You had one job
>>79436874
It's clever in that it is the same amount of overall syllables as the original quote.
Stop being so buttblasted no one is giving you (You)s.
>>79436962
I've not posted any. I am enjoying some of them though. There's just the one guy posting the same joke in the same format that is markedly unfunny compared to the others that I dislike.
>>79436971
Perhaps you've come to tell me why my son is bankrupt
>>79437012
>It's clever in that it is the same amount of overall syllables as the original quote.
Is that supposed to be the joke?
Perhaps I need this explained to me now.
>>79437022
>Boromir went bankrupt trying to bailout us, my associate and I
>>79432948
>true suffering is not being doomed to live forever
>true suffering is being doomed to pay taxes for eternity!
>>79437012
How is that clever at all? Does matching the number of syllables require anything more than a rudimentary grasp of language and the ability to count?
>>79433320
But this has been a meme on /lit/ for years
This is my first time here and you fail me already
Rohan is about to fall. The kings investments are debt-ridden. It's an old device of Sarmuan's. His holdings over king Théoden are now very strong. Sauron and Saruman are tightening the noose.
>>79436874
Can I make memes about micro- and macro economics or only household economics? Do you have any more quotes from IMDB of which I can replace words with TAXES? :^)
>>79437115
>>79437054
There is no fuckin joke. It's the same pattern every time one of these terrible meme pops up. Some new autists feel left out because they weren't around when actual memes were created and they want to say they were there for the creation of a new one. Do not under estimate how retarded the "memes" subject to this phenomena can get.
>>79437132
/lit/ never had this daring of a synthesis.
>>79433358
>mountain dew shortage
GoTfags are so BTFO that there is literally no resistance
We are just enjoying ourselves
>>79437022
>Gandalf! Denethor's lost his mind! He's going to burn...all of his and Faramir's assets and tax write-offs!
>>79437145
>Borrow more sire, Rohan is too big to fail.
>Saruman will just impose higher tariffs on the little folk
>>79437173
>when actual memes were created
Hope I never get as cringe as you.
>for a thousand quarters this company has stood, now at the whim of a IRS accountant it will be frozen. The white account, the account of the CEO will never accumulate monthly interest again!
I don't have much knowledge of accountancy and banking so I gave it my best shot
>Frodo: "They're going to the harbour beyond the White Towers. To the Tax Havens."
>Sam: "They're thieving Middle-Earth."
>Frodo: "Never to tax return."
>Sam: "I don't know why — it makes me mad."
>>79437180
>>79437199
Shiiiet this is actually pretty good
>>79437213
Thats how its done
>>79437199
Lel.
>>79437173
>actual memes
What the hell does that even mean? Very few memes make it anywhere without being horrifically forced. Just look at Baneposting. It went from being mildly amusing, to awful, to absurd, and then to hilarious.
>>79437173
>an innocent meme where people share a few giggles and move on
Oh the humanity.
No taxes!
>>79437207
>Hope I never get as cringe as you.
Well you'd have to go back in time and not originally be from reddit so you don't use cringe as an adjective.
>Boromir
>Boro-Mir
>Borrow -Mir
>Borrow-More
>BORROW MORE!
What did Tolkien mean by this?
>>79437173
<- This is you know
>>79433870
delet
>>79437213
>Filthy little Hobbitses! They stoles it from usss!
>What did they steal?
>My....DEDUCTIBLES! *RRRRRRAAAAAAAAGHH*
>>79437305
keked heartily
>No holding company should have to watch their subsidiary file for bankruptcy
>>79437302
I am Greek so its ok
>>79437109
>AbeautifulMan
kek'd
I haven't read the books in years, but does Gurm mention tax policy at all? From what I remember the economics of ASOIAF amounts to 'tax them more lol' (which is only tax policy in the loosest sense), and borrowing from Braavos and the Lannisters
Always proud to cater to little loans!
I made a taxpost thread earlier and the mods deleted it
>>79434327
Perfect
>>79437370
A this pace we will have converted the entire movie dialogue by the end of the week
Someone take notes
>>79436527
underrated
>>79437390
HBO shills cant handle the bants
>>79437404
Someone remake the entire movie with taxspeak
>>79437390
Well it's an extremely witty meme that will no doubt lead to bringing /tv/ back to its formal memetic glory so they ought to be ashamed of themselves. I mean look at this guy >>79437305
He replaced precious with deductibles! This meme is going places!
>>79437404
We should no joke dub the whole movie with this economy stuff, whether it be subs or dubbing.
>>79437390
i've looked through the archive, lots of tax threads have been deleted.
>>79437327
>It was a viable business for a time.
>>79437483
It's definitely a conspiracy on behalf of the moderation. This is the funniest meme I have ever seen. You take a phrase from LOTR and replace a word with something financially related. This is comedy gold. I'm surprised you all aren't stand up comedians.
>>79437454
When was there ever a clever meme on /tv/?
>>79437456
http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Lord-of-the-Rings-Fellowship-of-the-Ring,-The.html
Theres the script, get writing
btw in case you were wondering Tolkien absolutely did think about all the taxes and genocide.
In fact he did not write past the LotR because he realised things would go to pieces due to man's innate flaws. And also he thought the orcs would suffer at the hands of men despite their eventual redemption.
This was probably in the original thread but I wasn't there.
>>79437454
>he thinks being clever is the solution to successful memes
oh sweet child
>>79437546
Will do.
>>79433882
not an argument. address his points instead of greentexting you embarrassing, drooling mongoloid.
>>79434204
this is the best post in the thread and it's severely under(you)ed
>are you in need of tax planning my lady?
>>79433311
Why did this make me chuckle
>Tell me, what do your Elf Eyes see?
The auditors turn Northeast! They're taking the refunds to Washington!
>>79437454
SOMEONE GET THIS TAX FED OUT OF HERE
>>79436249
>>79436297
im dead
What can men do against such rekless inflation?
>>79437454
>I can't contribute anything more clever or witty so I'll just ironically shitpost people having fun with a meme that will probably not last past this thread, purely because I hate trying to have fun
>ARRGHHH!
>MY INVESTMENTS!
>>79437604
HARVY DANT!
>>79437680
That scene was unnecessarily scary.
>>79437349
DELETE THIS
MUH DRAGONS
MUH GREY MORALITY
>>79437664
When you spend too much time on 4chan, you get bitter and confrontational.
I don't like the IRS, they are greedy and blind. Blind to the tax plans they deem lesser than themselves. But the tax evaders I hate more.
>>79437664
Nah actually I'm going for a jog.
>>79437730
Roll down the hill little meatball, you are free! FREE!
>You offer it to me freely... I do not deny that my budget has greatly desired this.
>In place of a sales income you would have a write-off! Not taxable but REPORTABLE and on every form!
>ALL SHALL DONATE TO ME AND DESPAIR.
>>79437766
LIFT THE TARIFFS
RELEASE THE IMPORTS
>>79437726
Muh one-dimensional grey morality, specifically.
With Boromir (and Faramir) and the Steward faggot and the whole fucking Gollum thing, LotR is full of grey morality.
It's the point of the book.
>grima you need not take out a morgage from him
>you were not always in default as you are now
>you once had a generous workplace pension
>>79437825
mort gage
till death, friend
>>79437658
>What of those who cannot pay my lord? The downtrodden and indigent?
>Bury their accounts. Her Majesty's Revenues and Customs' arm would have grown long indeed if it thinks it can reach us here
THIS JUST IN!!!
BUY BUY BUY
>this whole thread
>>79437905
I have already gave everything for 'tatoes stocks
Am I fucked?
>>79437948
I would advise a sandwich-heavy portfolio.
>>79437905
Top analysts already predicted a crash soon, it wont last.
This thread is so god damn funny.
>>79437819
>I can only see the forest for the trees
t. retarded
There is black and white good and evil, representing the christian good and evil norms. If your culture doesn't understand right from wrong, that's your problem, and your curse, for you will never ascend with a country that knows nothing of justice.
>>79436574
love this one.
Common people...versus the IRS?
Aragorn, they have no offshore holding accounts. They are all going to pay!
>THEN I SHALL PAY AS ONE OF THEM
>Arise! Arise, Dependents of Theoden! Hands shall be shaken, papers shall be splintered! A pen day... an ink day... ere the 1060 Form rises! File now!... File now!... File! File for the IRS and the Spring's tax returns! Tax! Tax! Tax! Tax! TAAAX! Forth, Eorlingas!
>>79432948
>“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."
>>79438115
Kek, did Martin actually say that?
I didn't think the man had any good writing in him
>>79437888
>if this is to be our last financial quarter
>then i would have our accountants make such bankruptcy as to be worth of the IRS' absurd federal funding
>>79434489
lel
DEEEEEEBTS
>>79437349
For memes, every single mention of the word tax (excluding things like "stretching my legs was taxing" in ASOIAF
A GAME OF THRONES
>none
A CLASH OF KINGS
>He has imposed a tax on those wishing to enter the city.
>The Queen Regent and her son shall make no claims to taxes, incomes, nor service from my people
>Harbormasters, tax farmers, customs sergeants, wool factors, toll collectors, pursers, wine factors; nine of every ten belonged to Littlefinger.
A STORM OF SWORDS
>Lord Redwyne asked only for thirty years’ remission of the taxes that Littlefinger and his wine factors had levied on certain of the Arbor’s finest vintages.
>He claimed that you had put a tax on women’s privy purses.
>“It is a tax on whoring,”
>Even a prince must pay his taxes.
>In the New Gift there had been villages and holdfasts whose taxes, rendered in goods and labor, helped feed and clothe the black brothers.
>so long as the new lordlings paid taxes to Castle Black rather than Winterfell.
>You can keep your king’s justice too, and your king’s taxes.
A FEAST FOR CROWS
>his bailiffs to collect duties and taxes for his treasurer Alyse Ladybright to count
>And does it matter who is regent for little Lord Robert, so long as the Vale remits its taxes?
>Don’t stop them bloody Celtigars from sending men to t’ eastern shore to collect his taxes.
A DANCE WITH DRAGONS
>it is customary for the city to claim one-tenth of all the profits from the fighting pits, after expenses, as a tax.
>Such taxes as we collect are paid in kind, your Grace.
>Call it a blood tax. I will have a hundred pieces of gold from every pyramid for each freedman that the Harpy’s Sons have slain.
>Reznak mo Reznak stressed the coin to be made through taxes.
>Mills were a valuable source of tax.
>“The blood tax …”
>mayhaps we will not have to raise the taxes.
>He dare not resort to new taxes
>Half the lords in the realm could not tell taxation from tyranny
>>79438148
Nah, it's from some guy called John Rogers.
>All over, the stock exchanges cold
>Buy Blue Chip Stocks, and Dividends
>We hedge out bets, ere break of day
>To hold onto, our precious gold.
>Brokers of yore, made mighty sells,
>While indexes fell, like ringing bells
>The drops were steep, made accountants weep,
>In trading halls beneath the fells.
>>79438192
LOTR BTFO
taxation is theft
tolkien knew it because he was a close associate of hayek and friedman
martin is a fucking commie
>>79438148
As opposed to Tolkein? Not defending GRRM. Tolkein is seen as an inspiration. Not necessarily a good writer. They are both pleb fodder within the fantasy genre, one step above harry potter.
>>79433560
>American ((((novelists))))
>>79433114
SOMEBODY CHECK THIS HOTHEADS W2'S
>>79438214
fucking hell
>>79438252
It's easy to be above Harry Potter when it's the dullest franchise in media.
>>79438214
most good, anon. most good.
>>79438252
>a scholar of Anglo-Saxon literature and Old English is pleb fodder and comparable to an fat American with writer's block
>>79438248
tolkien once again proved to be the goat
>>79438252
Care to recommend a Fantasy novel?
>>79438192
>His tax policy is literally "Sometimes there's a tax, sometimes there isn't a tax. The percentage, how it's calculated, how people prove their incomes, how the government disputes their incomes, how taxes are divided... this is mere fluffery. All we need to know is that taxes exist! So long as taxes exist society can operate!"
god what a fucking moronic fat faggot. anyone who has ever watched or read his work needs to drown by their own hands.
>>79435135
>admitting you're cancer
I think you mean 2012 my friend.
>>79438192
So really, given how ridiculously long the books were, not that much actual tax policy. About half of those are just mentioning it in passing
>>79434327
FUCKING UNDERRATED
>>79438312
We have no way of tracking them all down, but I do think it's fair that you choke yourself mildly for a couple of minutes for the lesser sin of consuming several lines of text produced by Martin.
taxposting, gruntposting, what a time to be alive
>>79438295
credentials =/= story telling. LOTR was admittedly part of his thesis on language. His last objective was to tell a good story.
>>79438312
>society needs taxes to operate
jesus christ what a hack
Maybe there were no taxes in Middle Earth?
>>79433324
>>79433329
>>79433371
>>79433391
>>79433880
>>79434336
>>79434387
>>79435589
>>79438252
>hurr durr it's fantasy so it's automatically without artistic merit despite the fact that he heavily based it on epic books and poems of old that /lit/ loves as well as creating over a dozen functional languages and 4 writing systems for it
>but it's shit lol becuz fantasy :^)
Drink bleach
>>79433391
Nice.
I like this new revival of LOTR posting
>>79436297
>A FUCKING BAILIF
MY SIDES
>>79436483
Bane?
>>79433560
I'm glad HBO has ruined this turbo-autists """"masterpiece"""""
>>79438433
I can't tell if you are trolling or you just didn't read my post. I said within the fantasy genre. I didn't say all fantasy is pleb fodder.
>>79438252
kill yourself
>>79438489
Your moms vagina is pleb fodder LMAO
>>79437213
I don't pay half of my taxes half as well as I should like; and I invest less than half of my profits half as well as they deserve
>>79438498
Wow he made up a language. Too be he didn't develop actual characters or tell a compelling story.
Why are fantasy fans such tasteless plebs?
His sense of duty was no more than yours, I deem. You wonder whether he filed his accounts, whether he was domicile abroad, if he was really a tax evader at heart. What lawyers and accountants led him to hide his money so far from home. If he would not rather have invested there in peace. The state will make corpses of us all.
>>79438538
(You)
>>79438489
I read your post and I wholeheartedly disagree with it.
Without him there would be no high fantasy genre for you to claim that there are better things out there.
Again, please list some fantasy that you think is better, so I can laugh at you.
>Bilbo Baggins: Can I help you with your Tax Returns?
>Gandalf: That remains to be seen.
>>79438538
>>79438545
>game of redditors
>>79438537
Fuck me that's good. They're all good, but I love this.
Guys we need to get our shit together. Either the fellowship imposes taxes or avoids taxes. Not both. I suggest the latter.
>>79436483
Keep your forked tongue behind your teeth!
Get BACK there and launch an independent audit of the government funding of that gate!
>>79438566
Without hundreds of pro basketball players Michael Jordan would have never existed.
>>79438579
>lord of the redditors
>the up vote reddit style of smaug
Step up again, /r/movies tourist
>Legolas! Two loans with affordable interest rates sold already!
>I'm on seventeen!
>Huh?! I'll have no pointy-nose out-Jewing me
>>79438538
George """R. R.""" Martin pls go
>>79438620
Are you still googling "better fantasy books than lotr" or should we just stop expecting an answer?
>>79438538
He made up about a dozen languages you literal human excrement. And 4 writing systems.
Most of which you can actually use as a full language.
Characters were never his intention (although I also disagree with your assertion that they aren't compelling, they are merely classical archetypes), the world and myth of it all is what he set out to create.
LotR and The Silmarillion are his love letters to language and classical epic myth.
Again, I invite you to imbibe textile detergent.
>>79438691
He's one of those people that thinks obscure > good. Lots of them on /tv/.
>>79438538
>Too be he didn't develop actual characters or tell a compelling story.
How so?
You're just giving broad statements, actually cite the novels to prove your point.
Literary criticism is far more than just saying "he didn't write a good story", you have to use textual evidence to form a cohesive argument with a thesis.
Good god anon, this is basic stuff. I can cite examples of GRRM shit (both literally and figuratively) writing, yet you have offered no evidence of tolkein's failure to develop characters
>>79438624
reddit raus
>>79438620
Babe Ruth is a better comparison, without Babe Ruth, baseball would have never existed as we know it.
>>79436548
Keks
>>79438620
Still waiting on that list of fantasy you don't think is "pleb tier" compared to LotR.
You finished with your google search, yet? Or are you just going to post something obvious like The Wheel of Time or the Dark Tower series?
>>79438747
>reddtasy
You have one more chance before I forced you to go back to /v/
>break out the accounts, these companies are solvent!
>>79438742
In what ways does frodo demonstrate any character development? He;s the same fucking person from start to finish.
>>79433233
So it begins, the last great Taxpayer Compliance Measurement Program Audit of our age.
>INCOME TAX AUDIT!
>Sam, help me.
>Hr. Frodo!
>Show them your 1099s and W-2, Mr. Frodo. Show them!
>They're so hard to fill out.
>Oh, no.
>>79437213
Kek nicely done
>>79438988
Really? You think the Frodo who starts out saying how Bilbo should have killed Gollum when he had the chance, and the Frodo who spares Saruman after he just tried to stab him are the same person?
>>79439003
>Oi! I'll have your guts if you don't get these filed!
>YOU'RE NOT MEMEING HOW I WANT STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Get a life, memescrooges. This is fun and there's plenty of good posts itt. Of course it's going to get old fast, there's only a finite amount of lines on the movies. Who cares.
>>79435850
CAST THE FORM 1040 INTO THE MAILBOX!
>Listen carefully: Lord Denethor is the statutory auditor. To give him news of his our mislaid share capital would be most unwise.
>And do not mention about the mesothelioma suits or the settlements.
>And say nothing of the trial balance irregularities either.
>In fact, it's better if you don't speak at all.
>my economy is insolvent we need a loan
>insolvent is it? give him some assistance boys
>CANT TAKE HIS QUANTITATIVE EASING
>>79435588
401k
>>79438187
This deserve some (You)'s.
>>79439375
>>79439263
Scholars
>>79439375
>what about their pensions? They don't need those.
>>79433535
also, bitches need to back away from my videogames
>>79439487
>the unclaimed pensions go to the state creating a windfall and ensuring dividends for ever-increasing trustee numbers
>unwithdrawn and unspoiled
Gondor- Where was Gondor when the housing market collapsed? Where was Gondor when our creditors closed in around us!? Where was Gon- No. We are alone, Mr. Blumberg