>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?
Ruling is hard. This was maybe my answer to Tolkien, whom, as much as I admire him, I do quibble with...
Now that I know he's part Jewish I keep thinking he looks like some type of Rabbi.
he cute
orcs in lotr are, by definition, evil
yes even the little baby orcs
there's no such thing as a reformed orc
orc babies? in lotr?
This is such a fundamental misunderstanding of what Tolkien was trying to achieve with LOTR. Also, among "dark, gritty low fantasy" writers Martin is probably the least talented.
>orc babies? in lotr?
We don't know for sure, books wise. It's implied that Saruman created Uruk hai by mixing orcs and Dunland humans but whatever that means it was sexual or magical - nobody knows.
it'd have to be a bit of both
you collect the material manually and use magic to make sure the chromosomes and shit line up
We don't know really. Tolkien never flat out stated it, not even in letters, I think.
He got a bunch more normalfags into fantasy settings, way more than lord of the fags guy did, so he has some talent in there. He made a gorillion dollars off of his writing, that's smart
if you read enough, you get a feel for this stuff
The ironic part of GURM retarded critisism of tolkien is that his OWN books didnt even do the minutae of ruling a kingdom well.
His idea of exploring that is retarded bullshit like “the iron bank” and to repeat that casterley rock has lots of gold
HACK FRAUD
>popularity is a measure of talent
Yeah, nah. Also, the TV show got normalfags into fantasy, not Martin's books. And it got them into fantasy only in the sense that they've now read Martin. Big fucking achievement.
>Way more
Could you BE more zoomer?
>normalize the idea that an entire race is inherently evil
This is why orc-racism is a real problem with tolkien’s work.
lord of the rings is still niche, game of thrones is a pop culture icon
More people watched the LOTR movies than watched the GOT show.
>way more than lord of the fags guy did,
How exactly does this work if he invented that genre?
you're supposed to be against evil
it's not a problem, it's a feature
in the real world, it's not as simple as people from one place or another being good or bad
in fantasy, you can have groups that are inherently evil or inherently good
and this lets you tell stories about good vs evil
in a way that you just plain can't with more realistic settings
But it indoctrinates children with the idea that there is a pure race and an evil race. It fills their head with the false idea that a race can be more violent or less intelligent than another race. Or the idea that one race builds civilization and another tries to destroy it.
Yes, even the little baby orcs.
Thats what makes him a good king.
what, are you jewish?
fiction is not indoctrination
>if the king was a good man, the land would prosper
Funny that someone who writes for a living doesn't know what the subjunctive is
Dude its called fantasy , you serious ?
He’s idiomatically correct
>aggressively starts writing a hardcore medieval fantasy epic
>fantasize about destroying a race of dark skinned, hyper violent, low intelligence creatures
Your a klansman.
Based Chandler
This is objective fact. Niggers are destructive.
He looks like a fisherman with the clap.
You mean slavery and white racism are destructive.
>slavery
Possibly, thank Europeans for banning it.
Lord of the rings is niche
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAA
Name any fantasy story/video games today, i'll tell you why it wouldn't exist without the influence of tolkien.
GoT exists because of LotR
Martin is an absolute dogshit writer the show is good but my god what a hack
>BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAA
reddit is two blocks down
so? what I said is still true. lord of the rings is still niche and game of thrones gets talked about on Good Morning Today and The View and all the normalfag news shows
This retard doesn't seem to understand that corruption is a big thing in Silmarillion and LOTR, the world is slowly becoming a worse version of itself, of course most of the people depicted in those works are incredibly virtuous and easier to rule over.