>Ruling is hard. This was maybe my answer to Miyazaki , whom, as much as I admire him, I do quibble with. Dark Souls had a very medieval philosophy: that if the king was a good man, the land would prosper. We look at real history and it’s not that simple. Miyazaki can say that Gwyn became king and reigned for a thousand years, and he was wise and good. But Miyazaki doesn’t ask the question: What was Gwyn's tax policy? Did he maintain a standing army? What did he do in times of flood and famine? And what about all these Hollows? By the end of the linking of the flame, the curse is gone but all of the Hollows aren’t gone – they’re in the mountains. Did Gwyn pursue a policy of systematic genocide and kill them? Even the little baby Hollows, in their little Hollow cradles?
Ruling is hard. This was maybe my answer to Miyazaki , whom, as much as I admire him, I do quibble with...
>In an interview that dates from a few years back, Miyazaki not only criticized Hollywood, but those who enjoy its >“Americans shoot things and they blow up and the like, so as you’d expect, they make movies like that,” said Miyazaki at the time.
>“If someone is the enemy, it’s okay to kill endless numbers of them,” he continued. “Lord of the Rings is like that. If it’s the enemy, there’s killing without separation between civilians and soldiers. That falls within collateral damage. How many people are being killed in attacks in Afghanistan? The Lord of the Rings is a movie that has no problem doing that [not separating civilians from enemies, apparently]. If you read the original work, you’ll understand, but in reality, the ones who were being killed are Asians and Africans. Those who don’t know that, yet say they love fantasy are idiots.”
>There is a discourse on race in Lord of the Rings, but Miyazaki’s grouping of Lord of the Rings in with the American military seems slightly baffling. Sure, the movies were released and funded by a Hollywood company, but Peter Jackson, a New Zealand native, made the films in his home country with his Wellington-based studio. Plus, J. R. R. Tolkien was British. But Miyazaki seems to be grouping all of the Western into a singular Hollywood or, even, “American” lump.
>“Even in the Indiana Jones movies, there is a white guy who, ‘bang,’ shoots people, right? Japanese people who go along and enjoy with that are unbelievably embarrassing. You are the ones that, ‘bang,’ get shot. Watching [those movies] without any self-awareness is unbelievable. There’s no pride, no historical perspective. You don’t know how you are viewed by a country like America.”
Elden Ring will be the GOAT game this year, and Martin will redeem himself. Then he'll never finish the books, because who cares anyway. GoT is shit. Only Japanese fiction is good
Is there a single civilian killed by the good guys in Lord of the Rings?
What is Gwyn's tax policy?
>‘bang,’ shoots people, right? Japanese people who go along and enjoy with that are unbelievably embarrassing
He must really hate when his entire race flocks to see shit like John Woo movies
Gwyn did a pretty fucking bad job with spending during his reign, basically new londo is flooded ruin. What waste of tax payers money.
Sauce on interviews
>George-RR-Fartin.jpg
Sauce me up
*brandishes bloody quill* AHEHEHE!
holly finna based
TV series made him come of as such a fucking hack.
By 'tax policy', I don't think he means literal tax policy, game of thrones doesn't touch on taxes, but want a slightly more coherent world that actually would be functional with real people in it
Not his fault that the series went to shit, but it comes off as so ridiculously unbelievable it's embarrassing.
>What was Gwyn's tax policy
Wut
I mean storytelling wise he is correct. Gandalf had a great "death" scene and it wouldn't have detracted from the story really at all if he never returned. Plus it would've opened up a better way to end the trilogy than a deus ex machina.
it's hayao miyazaki's quote
Fuck off zoomer.
No
How does Tolkien feel about fast-travel?
Gandalf coming back is like Andre inexplicably being in Firelink Shrine when you start DS3. Pure fan service.
>-oomer
Opinion discarded
>with real people in it
Ah yes, real people. I read fantasy novels to get to know REAL worlds with REAL shitty people, just like my REAL shitty life! Bravo Martin!
You have no idea what you're talking about.
people didn't really know about cliches back then
I tried to watch game of thrones but it was the most bland, cliche fantasy shit imaginable. No wonder normalfags eat it up.
The fuck, aren't mechas and Godzilla literally pointy-shooty-me-like-explosions content? Isnt shonen manga super popular?
>user who browses Zig Forums of all places offers criticism to Tolkien on how LotR should have been
Mt. Doom -> Rivendell ! He fucking loves it
What the FUCK Tolkien? You were supposed to be the good guy.
why didn't Frodo just take the shortcut to Mordor?
>Green recalls that after Lewis had shared the opening chapters of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe with Tolkien, "who had disliked it intensely," Lewis then read it to Green. Shortly after, Tolkien saw Green and remarked, "I hear you've been reading Jack's [Lewis's] children's story. It really won't do, you know! I mean to say: 'Nymphs and their Ways, The Love-Life of a Faun'. Doesn't he know what he's talking about?" (qtd. in Green and Hooper 241). (1) Green provides no explanation of what Tolkien meant; however, this has not prevented critics from interpreting Tolkien's comment.
>Joe R. Christopher observes that Nymphs and their Ways is one of the books which appears on Mr. Tumnus's bookcase in Chapter II of The Lion. According to Christopher, Tolkien was bothered by this scene because Lewis was distorting and sentimentalizing the myth ("Narnian Exile" 41). He suggests, "[I]f Lucy had really met a faun--that is, a satyr--the result would have been a rape, not a tea party" (Christopher, C.S. Lewis 111). Hence, the reason Tolkien alludes to The Love-life of a Faun--a book that doesn't actually appear on Mr. Tumnus's bookcase but is absurd all the same. In short, Lewis failed to maintain the mythical archetype of fauns as lustful.
>Lewis’s disregard for cohesive world building was cause for critique among a number of his friends. J.R.R. Tolkien didn’t appreciate the mythological jumble.
>But he kept coming back to that civilized little faun. After the critical savaging of the original draft, Lewis didn’t show The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe to many people, and he didn’t read it to his band of literary friends, the Inklings. He read it to Tolkien, who categorically disliked it specifically (again) because of the jumble. Lewis objected that all these characters interacted perfectly well in our minds, and Tolkien said, “Not in mine, or at least not at the same time.”
what do they eat?
>Ruling is hard. This was maybe my answer to Miyamoto, whom, as much as I admire him, I do quibble with. Super Mario Bros had a very medieval philosophy: that if the hero rescued the princess, the land would prosper. We look at real history and it's not that simple. Miyamoto can say that Peach became queen and baked cakes for a hundred years, and they were tasty and good. But Miyamoto doesn't ask the question: What was Peach's tax policy? Did she maintain a standing army? Did she keep kart racing and partying during times of flood and famine? And what about all these goombas? By the end of the game, Bowser is gone, but all of the goombas aren't gone -- they're scattered from 1-1 to 8-4. Did Peach pursue a policy of systematic jumping and stomp them? Even the little baby goombas, following their bigger paragoomba cousins?
the books aren’t as bad as the show, but every chapter is a different perspective, so it’s difficult not to be bored or pissed off by large parts of them when you want to know what the fuck is going on with x people and the book keeps droning on and on about some fag you don’t care about or a literallywho you have no reason to care about whatsoever
the bran chapters are pure undiluted suffering
And where do they shit?
the depths obviously
It's a city of gods. Only mortals have to eat and shit
Do the bad guys even have civillians?
People who want pulp fantasy are sub human and no better than anime fans. How can u possibly be entertained reading the same shitty story 100 times?
source? There are dinner tables in Anor Londo. Plus Smough is a fat fuck
fake, You white supremacists trying to deflect about the article where he praises whites and is completely self hating.
he consumed souls, or something
>cliche
That word doesn't mean what you think it means.
>they're scattered from 1-1 to 8-4
kek
Smough ate people I think, or souls of people
George RR Martin couldn't write his way out of a paper bag, consideeing ehat bottom barrel trash GoT is.
I expect a lot of needless profanity in order to appeal to 'mature' gamers.
He invented it. What do you think the eagles were?
He just has fat armor
????
He's right though.
yeah, that's why he's fat, because he never shits
wtf Tolkien is a rapefag?
Smough is actually not fat, he's actually quite Zig Forums
Please enlighten me, user.
ok Smough
This whole time I thought it was Hayao Miyazaki, not Hidetaka Miyazaki, that was collaborating with JRR. I guess this makes more sense, but everyone just says "Miyazaki" and that's who I thought of first.
THE MORE SHE DRANK
This is from a time where a Faun, was a Faun
he's probably confused that Lewis took a mythological creature, and only attributed the looks to it, and none of the lore
Which is fucking weird when you are doing a children's book, having a rape-monster in it
I don't think people back then had this modern thing going on where everything in a superficial reference to some older thing
Like if your play had a Satyr in it, it actually was some sex-crazed Greek
interesting perspective
It's 100% true
What do they eat???