Thoughts on Redwall Yea Forums?

Nah, it limits the narrative. I read all of the books and I hated how your species automatically dictated things like whether you were good or not. Rats, for example, were always evil no matter what. There was even one book where a rat raised by mice ended up betraying them or something because rats just can't be good.

In the first book there was a fucking life sized horse that Cluney came riding in on. I think it was supposed to be some post-human world but the first book is retconned to hell and back and every other book is just a retelling of the same story with different names for kids so who gives a fuck.

Christian propaganda bullshit that needs to fuck off.

At least in the books the fact that there rodents adds a lot and is more then just o look thire animals but they act like humans also there is mention of humans excesting in the first book and I believe that they a are around the same size saddy that was never brought up again

Wait, do you mean that Cluny, the size of a large rat, was on the back of a life-sized horse? Or that Cluny, the size of a human, was a riding a life-sized horse?

Because the image of a regular (albeit very large) rat clinging to a giant horse as it charges into battle is hilarious.

It's been ages since I've read the books, but I recall that Cluney's whole army was being carried in a single horse drawn cart. I also seem to remember the horse being on fire.

it didnt have to limit the narrative, that was just a conscious decision by a very racist Brian Jacques

true but i imagine its easier to use animals and read into and build around their traits than creating new species. as a kid the books were also very comfortable for me bc i thought it was cool to see animals in those roles. wouldnt have had that, familiarity adjacent feeling otherwise. these ones felt fantastic but realistic at the same time

I read the most of the books as a kid. It was enthralling at least at the time. No Lord of the Rings, but the interaction of the different species cultures and their mythologies was quite interesting to little kid me, anyway.

It's just the British children novel way. Especially at the time. I suspect they did it to mentally enhance the metaphors. Mice meek, cats vicious, moles stubborn and survival-oriented, etc. A little visual and physical flare to go along with the literary. As a kid I went along with it. As an adult I've come to appreciate it, but that might just be nostalgia.

It'd be lame to have humans, slightly bigger and meaner humans, much bigger humans that can solo a dozen of anyone else, blind humans who dig, etc. instead of mice, rats, badgers, and moles