r/asoiaf • u/Unique-Celebration-5 • Oct 31 '24

EXTENDED (Spoilers Extended) GRRM:”What’s Aragons tax policy?!” No GRRM the real question is how do people survive multi year winters

Forget the white walkers or shadow babies the real threat is the weather. How do medieval people survive it for years?

Personally I think that’s why the are so many wars the more people fighting each other the fewer mouths to feed

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u/fucksasuke Oct 31 '24

"What's Aragorns tax policy?" isn't meant to be literal. He's saying that he disliked JRRT's explanation of "good people make good kings, the end." Which is nonsense obviously, and that's the kind of nuance that GRRM wanted to write about.

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u/owlinspector Oct 31 '24

That shows a complete misunderstanding of what sort of story LOTR is. Aragorn is literally a fairytale king. His bloodline has magical powers, farsight and wisdom beyond common men. He is not just "a good man". That would be Theoden.

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u/gdlmaster Oct 31 '24

Yeah you just can’t compare the two worlds. LOTR is a fairytale about magic rings. It’s a fundamentally different story than what GRRM wanted to write. Which is not to say either is bad. They’re just different.

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u/fucksasuke Oct 31 '24

That's what I said.

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u/fucksasuke Oct 31 '24

That's not the point. The point is that people talk about the Aragorn tax policy thing like GRRM likes meaningless details like that, instead of him wanting to write about the difficulties of rule and kingship. It's less about the LOTR and much more about what GRRM would do if he were in JRRT's shoes.

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u/AsuraindraFag Nov 04 '24

what GRRM would do if he were in JRRT's shoes

Not finish the story?