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A reminder that LOTR is nothing but childish banalities.
Let based George elaborate.
>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.
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>>80011857
Yeah I'm sure he quibbles with this dead author every night in his most demeaning nightmares.
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What about their farming cycles? They spent a lot of their time fighting a war, did they store enough wheat for the winter?
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>>80011857
Does this baffling idiot not understand that LOTR doesn't intend to portray reality? Its fucking idealistic on purpose, harking back to the ancient epics of Greece etc etc
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>>80011857
Yeah, but what was Robert's tax policy?
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>>80011857
Because LOTR was based off of myths, specifically Nordic ones, which placed very little emphasis on tax policies. It's not that difficult to understand.
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>>80012240
What was his Tax Policy?
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>>80011857
>makes brave honourable king burn his daughter alive
Truly GRRM is a much better writer than Tolkien
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>>80012419
this hasnt happened in the books
s6 was pure fanfiction
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>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.
hasn't his series become this as well?
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WHAT CAN MEN DO AGAINST SUCH FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY?
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>>80012240
Sure, but it is true that this has inspired a whole generation of fantasy authors writing the exact same boring childish black and white fantasy. Too bad that GoT is going down the same path with the white walkers these days
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>>80012492
my friends [spoilers] I hereby exempt you from tax [/spoilers]
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We had an IPO, yes, but what about an SPO?
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>>80011857
>>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?
This is dumb. Tolkien was writing a fantasy epic and exploring the minutiae of the world like tax policies or ethnography wouldn't work with the genre conventions.
>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.
This is a valid opinion. Tolkien has become the template for nearly all fantasy literature and breaking the mold in this regard is absolutely fine.
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>>80011857
is GRRM actually autistic?
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