>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?
What the fuck Yea Forumsros? Any kinos about this feel?
I want to smash his fucking head and face in with a sledgehammer and watch his body and arms and legs writhe like a broken windup toy as he dies in agony.
Jacob Barnes
BRAAAAAAAAAAAAP UHH YES THE TAXES THE TAXES HAAHAHA THAT FUCKING MORON TOLKIEN IS AN IDIOT!
The books answer this question more than once. After the fall of Morgoth, the Orcs retreated into dark places like Moria and Angmar. With Sauron's defeat, they likely scattered in a similar manner. Many who never came to Mordor in the first place would've been left unharmed.
>We look at real history and it’s not that simple Every fucking time. Yeah, let's look at real history, all those undead zombie armies and magic napalm breathing dragons. >spends 90% of his books grounded in realism >the 10% of super fantastic bullshit outweighs the importance of everything else Fuck off you fat waste of space
Nathaniel Walker
>watch the video >Martin uses fewer and different words the greentext is lying >faggot spams it everyday pretending to invite to discussion >others pretend as if they don't see it a couple times a day, make the same posts >show everybody how limited they are like most of the board talking about the same two or three fanyasy authors
Evan Morales
Got is harry potter tier level, just stop.
Read a throne of bones and a sea of skulls by vox day instead
>By the end of the war, Sauron is gone but all of the orcs aren’t gone Well he solved that problem by making enemies disappear after their leader is killed. Now I truly see what mature writing looks like
Mason Kelly
Based George dabbing on tolkienfags.
Ryder Hill
Which video? every interview and q & a is basically Martin saying the same 10 things he's already talked about over and over again but slighty different each time.
Nathaniel Cruz
Grrm can not even rule his appetite.
Alexander Sullivan
Maybe. I saw a video interview and he mentioned tax policy but doesn't expand on it as much.
Brayden Wood
Why do women play such an important role in politics in his books? Why are they so strong? Didn't he want realism?
Blake Green
Perhaps the orcs shouldve exploded when the ring was destroyed, for historically accuracy
>t. guy who failed high school english stories aren't about dragons and undead, that's just a fun setting, they're about people and human nature. Introducing some fantastical plot devices is far more believable than changing the fundamental nature of humanity and societies.
Jace Robinson
He's a great writer sometimes but he really sounds like a pretentious fuck listening to him for the first time.
Connor Parker
-strained buzzing and whirring as his motorized chair struggles to remain functional- "Ah, ha ha, *munch, munch* ol' J.R.R., didn't, ah, see you come in! -burp- No please, please, [smack] sit down, sit down, there' something we, (pant) need to talk about. *farts* Heavens excuse me, oh ho! Well getting down to 'brass tacks' - or brass tax, I might say SNORT! - yes, well I was sitting, counting the money coming in from, slurp, my show - terribly taxing ah yes? - when the thought occurred me, watching that money from my award-winning show... [belch] from my, (siiippp) award, award, awar... sorry, I lost my breath, award-winning books, that I [chews] that I can't seem to recall you mentioning [more chewing] anything about Gondor's *blows nose* taxation policy. Surely I must have -releases one long wet smelly fart - missed it while glancing through the pages (cough). You did [scratches ballsack] say something about it, right? Sales tax? (sweats) Value-added tax? *licks lips* Don't just sta - oh my my heart - stand there my man, out with it! Surely the, the thought has crossed your mind?! -chuckles until accidental urination-"
Daily reminder that when he said a man who said of fighting in WW1 "By 1918 all but one of my close friends" was "fundamentally dishonest" in his depiction of warfare because he didn't write about orc rape, he was. Daily reminder that in his second book he has a prepubescent girl with a few weeks (months?) of training kill at least two soldiers in open combat, one of whom had successfully ambushed her from behind.
William Myers
He didn't.
Connor Bailey
Imagine setting down LOTR after a good reading session, looking up and see that lumbering towards you out of the darkness
Anthony Bell
He's talking less about taxes and more about the old morality of if the King is good = the land is good.
