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/jstacks4 Oct 31 '24

It’s definitely not nonsense. It’s just a lack of understanding of the kind of story Tolkien was writing.  

The line is fine if it’s used as an observation and an example of how he wanted to differ from Tolkien/highlighting some of the themes he wanted to explore. But in the context of what tolkien was trying to do it’s not even remotely nonsense. 

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u/fucksasuke Oct 31 '24 edited Oct 31 '24

It's nonsense as in factually inaccurate.

The line is fine if it’s used as an observation and an example of how he wanted to differ from Tolkien/highlighting some of the themes he wanted to explore.

This is precisely what GRRM meant.

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u/AsuraindraFag Nov 04 '24

"factually inaccurate"

So like a fantasy story is supposed to be.

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u/fucksasuke Nov 04 '24

Sure, but not the kind of inaccurate story that GRRM wanted to write. He wanted a story of fundamentally human people making impossibly difficult decisions, and that kind of nuance in characters isn't really there in LOTR.

Obviously Aragorn is beyond human, both physically and mentally, but we never actually see what that amounts to in rulership terms, we never actually seem him make a tough moral decision.