#go whole hog fried green tomatoes “i'm older and i have more insurance” on their ass
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#we as a society need to move past this 'lotr is above criticism' mindset #'grrm totally missed the point of lotr!!' no YOU missed the point of that quote and also asoiaf #how does no one include the 'what did they do with the rest of the orcs? did they kill the little baby ones too?' part? #the point isn't dismissive of tolkien it's critical of modern fantasy's tendency to avoid these questions #and opt instead for a black and white conflict that doesn't examine the humanity on either side #grrm has gone on about how he admires tolkien. taking a quote that expresses his desire for fantasy to expand and explore #and claiming it's some sort of faux intellectualism just because it makes you uncomfortable #is incredibly small minded and harmful actually and I'm sick of pretending it's not
everyone who doesn't include the full quote when mocking GRRM's "what was Aragorn's tax policy" rhetorical question owes me $200
#next time some dingaling who never actually read the quote crosses my dash istg i'm reblogging them directly and confronting them#go whole hog fried green tomatoes “i'm older and i have more insurance” on their ass#it's not about lotr itself ffs! it's all the shitty soulless copies who made a Good Secret Heir and Evil Overlord and Evil Ugly Army Race#and never asked questions about what happens after the good guys win and destroy the bad guys entirely (genocide is such an ugly word)#and these copies almost never have a frodo. no truly human character who tries and fails and wins anyway because someone loves him#(the only one i can think of tbh is the first shannara book but that's because it was a nearly beat-for-beat ripoff of lotr lol sigh)#anyway. it's just so dumb. so damned ignorant and yes anti-intellectual (and almost as bad as the fascist tradcath lotr “fans” but note#they're probably the biggest group of small-minded ignorant out-of-context quoters of grrm's quote. please don't emulate them)#dear god lotr and tolkien do not deserve this nonsense#sigh#oh fandom#fantasy#grrm#lotr#aragorn's tax policy#queue and me we're in this together now
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