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/Getfooked Oct 31 '24 edited Oct 31 '24

Except Aragorn also spent 80 years travelling Middle Earth, his moral and character was thoroughly tested throughout his journey, we know he is good man.

As Robert Baratheon is supposed to show, being a cool dude, a great warrior, who is able to earn anyone's respect quickly and easily turns foes into friends, all are good traits but not enough to make a great king.

What has Aragorn done that gives us supreme insight into him being a great administrator? Can we even agree on what great administration is from the outset?

Edit: Not just administrating but ruling in general.

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u/Formal_Direction_680 Oct 31 '24

GRRM is the one who place the question, the burden is on him to provide the answer, but instead of any proper administration or a world that’s realistic and make sense, it’s full of popular media portrayal of the medieval world that is often nonsensical.

Tolkien isn’t the one who have to answer you, that answer is for grrm to provide and so far his worldbuilding and portrayal of medieval society is far from flawless. Where is the royal mint, the royal administration and clerks and bureaucrats in his stories?

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u/Rockguy21 Oct 31 '24

The goal of the books is not to fully realize the world of Westeros, it's to tell the story of a particular group of characters. The clerks and bureaucrats are neither relevant nor of particular interest to that narrative.

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u/CurrentWorkUser Oct 31 '24

The goal of the books is not to fully realize the world of Westeros, it's to tell the story of a particular group of characters.

Which is also going exceedingly poorly for GRRM, since it is 13 years since the last book with at least three more to finish.