Tolkien is to creative literary genius what Martin is to hack pulp idiocy. They both so far surpass anyone else in their field that they will be remembered 1,000 years from now as a kind of yin and yang of fantasy, a Manichean duality of speculative letters. For every sublime, luminous beauty that Tolkien has gifted the world, Martin has cursed us with a tedious, banal ugliness. It is unfair to compare the two directly on any one point, because Martin is in every way the anti-Tolkien, patently sterile, parasitical, and inferior, but so much so that he becomes a monument in his own right, and counterbalances Tolkien. Could one exist without the other? Tolkien obviously could. But it is only by the contrast that Martin offers that we can truly appreciate the full depths and heights of Tolkien. Our understanding of Tolkien would be incomplete if Martin had never set pen to page. It is through only the abject failure and futility of Martin that we can approach an apprehension of the true scope and scale of Tolkien's hitherto inconceivable greatness. Perhaps this is what Tolkien had in mind when he wrote about the Music of the Ainur. If Tolkien is a subcreator in the image of Eru, truly Martin is like unto Melkor. It is only reflected in the awfulness of the one that we can fully see the goodness of the other.
Tolkien is to creative literary genius what Martin is to hack pulp idiocy...
I'm not going to read all that
>GoT = Adults
>LoTR = Children
>Books
ASOIAF > LOTR
>film/series adaptations
LOTR > GOT
>That's bait.jpg
The Cinnamon Wind was spinning all around them and he could taste the rum on Gilly's tongue and the next thing her breasts were bare and he was touching them. I said the words, Sam thought again, but one of her nipples found its way between his lips. It was pink and hard and when he sucked on it her milk filled his mouth, mingling with the taste of rum, and he had never tasted anything so fine and sweet and good. If I do this I am no better than Dareon, Sam thought, but it felt too good to stop. And suddenly his cock was out, jutting upward from his breeches like a fat pink mast. It looked so silly standing there that he might have laughed, but Gilly pushed him back onto her pallet, hiked her skirts up around her thighs, and lowered herself onto him with a little whimpery sound. That was even better than her nipples.
vs
Where now are the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing?
Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing?
Where is the harp on the harpstring, and the red fire glowing?
Where is the spring and the harvest and the tall corn growing?
They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow;
The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow.
Who shall gather the smoke of the deadwood burning,
Or behold the flowing years from the Sea returning?
t. cumbrains
why do you tolkien fags have to start this shit?
we get it, nothing is going on for you guys in tv and film but soon amazon will make you relevant again
>High Fantasy vs Low Fantasy
>OMG LOW FANTASY SUCKS CAUSE ITS NOT LIKE DA HIGH FANTASY WHAT A HACK
*yaaaaawn*
In about 100 years kids will still be reading Tolkien's books yet George RR's works would be lost in the waves of time. Look at twin peaks, what was arguably the GOT of the 80's and you get ask some gen Z kid about it and a blank face is what you get.
GoT is degenerate because of the sexual stuff that doesnt belong in real fantasy
kids don't even read now you out of touch oldfag
This, but reversed.
Kids are watching game of thrones my man.
There was even a GoT joke in Shazam.
What does Twin Peaks have to do with books?
LOTR is low fantasy and ASOIAF is high fantasy. Only plebs think otherwise.
explain
christ is this going to be the new meme insult that's spammed in every thread
In terms of literary genres low fantasy refers to a setting that is in some way related to the real world, typically either the distant past or future (LOTR), a hidden world (Harry Potter), or portals (Narnia). High fantasy refers to a setting that exists on its own.
>asking someone to explain bait
When Russia and Stormfront have an agenda, they sure know how to get /pol/ to spew it out like the npc's they are.
Based
even by your own definition you proved that asoiaf is low fantasy.
But at least you got my (you)
how powerful is the russian-stormfront alliance?
Shit if I know. They both astroturf the web along with leftist cunts who would be just as bad if the right didn't come up with some really retarded shit sometimes.
Fuck astroturfing
Explain how.
Like Soviets and the Comintern.
>Adults=got
>Children=lotr
This way ?
Middle Earth isn't the distant past. Tolkien discarded that idea.
What does GoT?
you don't have to try anymore
About as uncontroversial statement as you could possibly make around here.
Tolkien's creativity was insane, and a big part of that is because he had control over his sexuality. George is just your run of the mill modern cumbrain hack. A pornstar from the tv show spent time at his house and did God knows what with him. Think about that. Although I will give him credit since he isn't a full cumbrain, more like half (maybe more) a cumbrain. He shows glimpses of creativity, but it's largely stifled by his obsession with pornographic imagery that runs throughout his work.
based christfag
>pink mast
>truly Martin is like unto Melkor. It is only reflected in the awfulness of the one that we can fully see the goodness of the other.
This will never not sting
too bad only 4 people on this board will get it
But Martin is shit at being stupid pulp, too.
There's way better fantasy pulp out there, that's actually well written and inventive, and not just "hurrrrr fucking and betrayals" for 5000 pages.
Written decades before game of thrones no less.
Moorcock and Vance are good stupid fantasy pulp but do we get a tv series of that noooooo gotta be DUDE GAME OF THRONES DUDE WINTER IS COMING HURRRR for 10 god dn fucking years straight.
Worst fucking timeline
>I'm not going to read all that
Typical GoT fan, can't read
The show went to absolute garbage in the end, but the show was always better than the books
Kino vs Bambino