Just how hard is Elden Ring gonna BTFO Lord of the Rings?

>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?

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Assuming this quote is even real, where the fuck did he get the idea that Gwyn was considered a 'good' king? He was a conqueror, and he stayed in power because even after parceling out his soul to whoever looked useful, he was still the biggest dicked motherfucker in the realm.

It still amazes me that GRRM doesn't understand the point of Lord of the Rings.
How big of a brainlet do you have to be not to understand that writing from a medieval perspective was the entire purpose of LotR?
What an absolute troglodyte.

kek

Is this the thread where people who know nothing about GRRM and haven't read his books try to come up with reasons to criticize him?

Read the OP image.

>lotr came out in fucking 1954
>people still don't get the thematics behind it

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How do retards go from
>I love Tolkien's works, he's a great writer, one of the greatest, but I would rather write things more realistically
to
retarded shit like this?

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japanese are masters of killing every last one of those populations they dont like.

You know... ask korea.
They fucking talk about bushido and dont know shit about it

New LOTR show is rumored to be a fucking disaster earlier they fired a bunch of the writing staff with a bunch of new/old staff pushing for woke nonsense like making Gandalf a woman.

Tom Shippey also left the show.

Only faggots deal in absolutes
There have been plenty of examples in history of changing leadership immediately pulling a country out of a downward spiral. Like putting the Hannovers on the English throne or Gorbachev restructuring Soviet politics in a way that ultimately made the USSR die so its constituent countries could live.

That's basically what he says.

>earlier they fired a bunch of the writing staff with a bunch of new/old staff pushing for woke nonsense like making Gandalf a woman
Lmao, source?

WW2 humbled the entire country
that Japan is long gone

They literally waited for Christopher Tolkien to die before pushing their retarded shit. It's insanely scummy.

i thought there was supposed to be news what the fuck happened

theonering.net/torwp/2020/04/15/107811-tom-shippey-is-out-at-amazon/
youtu.be/8n5Rzxx5Dbc?t=296

The writing staff was rumored to be quietly fired earlier this year based on their social media activity and IMDB pages, Tom Shippey was semi-confirmed to have left after his friend said he did. After an actor left they had to rewrite a bunch of stuff and it is rumored that after S1 was done they fired everyone for S2.

As for the super woke stuff youtuber Nerdrotic claims insiders gave him the info, he has been right before with insiders in Star Trek and Doctor Who.

the Gandalf being a woman thing is from an actress in the original trilogy. (I don't know if she is involved with the show.)

For the longest time I though "but what was his tax policy?" was just some random piece of shitposting someone came up with, but its actually a real quote from George Martin. Holy shit, if this guy was born today he would probably have become an youtube essayist.

Zig Forums has been over this 100 times, it's the fact he takes potshots at Tolkien, a far superior writer, to elevate himself. This tax policy shit and bitching Tolkien was dishonest for not depicting Orc rape is something he sees as a legit deficiency in Tolkien's work.

Reminder that Tolkien attacked CS Lewis for not depicting Satyr rape.

>directed by GRR Martin
>screenplay by J.K. Rowling
How mad would you be?

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>japanese guy criticizing someone else for being a bloodthirsty warmonger

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Yeah because Lewis included a mythological creature but did not preserve the essence of it. He also took umbrage at the hodge podge of mythological characters Lewis just threw together as well has the overt Christian themes.

>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.

>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.”

First of all, the Miyazaki part, if it's real of course, isn't really actually engaging with LotR. Where are the orc or Umbar or Haradrim citizens to get lumped in as the enemy and killed? Specifically, orc physiology is left incredibly vague. They are just products of Melkor genetic engineering elves and whatever. Does that leave a large gap? Certainly. But that's not the point of the narrative. Lord of the Rings was written as a mythology. It's not a one for one perfect narrative retelling of these fantasy events. It's meant to be an interpretation of them that has come down through the ages, and is only just being translated by Tolkein. Taken in that way, it does it's job fantastically. It would actually be worse off if it got into too many of the hard line specifics.

I am not that big of a LotR fan, I only really like the games.
I would enjoy watching Nerdrotic have a mental breakdown.