>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?
Gurrm has been praising Tolkien all week long. He clearly doesn't have any intense dislike of his work, he merely has a different approach to worldbuilding and storytelling.
Joshua Lopez
what happened to the night king's fridge? Now that he is dead all the food in his fridge will spoil.
Adrian Butler
the food and the fridge disintegrated when he was killed
Matthew Reyes
Who the fuck cares? Tolkien actually finished his masterpiece. What is this fat fuck doing?
Elijah Perez
>it's not about fantasy, it's about micro-managing >it's not about good vs evil it's about the economy! >it's not about "happily ever after" because it's... fantasy, you gotta make it real Absolute imbecile. Can't wait for him to bitch about Asimov: >well, yes spaceships, but how exactly does that technology work?
Easton Ramirez
What ethnicity is this goblin? Is this the modern anglo?
Nicholas Ross
Why?
Brandon Edwards
good thinking we'll need to write a chapter on that
Nolan Lee
>well, yes spaceships, but how exactly does that technology work? Tom Clancy pulled that off because he had real world stuff to base his books off of. How does one do that with a space ship outside of an Alcubierre Drive?
Elijah Mitchell
There are no baby orcs, think he confused this with warcraft.
Zachary Williams
I was underlining the flaw in Gurrm's logic, complaining about Tolkien not getting into the actual politics and economics of LOTR because it asinine. I compared it to complaining that Asimov didn't include the plans for spaceships in his novels. Or that Iain Banks didn't explain exactly how the Culture's A.I. ships were built exactly and what impact that has on the culture of X planet. It's one of those bitchy, petty, shifting the goalposts type of complaints that women usually make.
Julian Williams
he's irish and jewish like mac milar
Adrian Phillips
warcraft actually answered the question of what happened to the orcs
Adam Phillips
That's not the issue. The issue is this twit with his "Prepubescent girl with a few weeks of training kills multiple armed soldiers in face to face combat" among a million other offenses thinking he has any room whatsoever to speak about Tolkien's work in comparison to his own.
Sebastian Edwards
Based pacifist GRRM triggering butthurt Britmutts and their little jewish footsoldier icon.
Landon Ross
Alcubierre drive is based and redpilled.
Gavin Long
>>well, yes spaceships, but how exactly does that technology work? Whether or not you answer (or at least ask) that question is basically the difference between Ender's Game sci-fi and Star Wars space fantasy.
Easton Gomez
I see you got really btfo in that one thread a couple of days ago so you decided to double down on this spam. That's okay.
Easton Green
> that question is basically the difference between Agreed. The bitchyness comes when you look at one and criticize it for not being the other, just to have something to bitch about.
Liam Lee
Fair then.
Ian Evans
You’re in the library reading Return of the King when Gurm slaps your ass and starts babbling about taxes. What do you do? Keep in mind Gurm outweighs you by 200 pounds.
Liam Parker
>It's one of those bitchy, petty, shifting the goalposts type of complaints that women usually make. Right. That's why it only works with someone like Tom Clancy.
GRRM's writing is so overblown that I'm surprised he made it as far as he did. It takes 200 pages in the first book to even get to the inciting incident.
If he chopped the fat out of his books, they would have been finished years ago.
Charles Taylor
> Keep in mind Gurm outweighs you by 200 pounds.
Run 20 feet away. It's basically a death-sentence for him to keep up.
Adrian Bennett
>ignoring the SUCCCC
Dominic Anderson
>George RR Martin >writing the show In the books, Arya is still at assassin school, and she's not very good at it.
Dylan Bennett
>complains that when sauron dies all the orcs disappear >night king's army disappears when he is killed
fuck off fatty
Aaron Clark
I don't think you should necessarily interpret the OP excerpt as a criticism, rather as a contrast between writing styles.
Reminder that anyone in these threads unironically supporting grrm over tolkien is the epitomy of contrarian and no one would miss them if they were put to death (which they should be)
Parker Fisher
could he really have so profoundly misunderstood the genre tradition that tolkien was working within?
Nicholas Allen
explains nothing
Leo Thomas
it explains that GRRM either 100% misinterpreted the story of the biggest influence in modern fantasy or the way people misuse that quote is retarded
