>Writing is hard. This was maybe my answer to that fat fucking retard, whom, as much as I admire him, I do quibble with. Game of Thrones had a very medieval philosophy: that if the king was a good man, it's only because he was a cripple and some deformed dwarf liked his backstory and told everyone he needed to be king because the story needed to be over. We look at real history and it’s not that simple. Martin can say that Bran the Broken became king and reigned for a hundred years, and he was wise and good. But he doesn’t ask the question (which is the same thing he ripped Aragorn for): What was Bran’s tax policy? Did he maintain a standing army? What did he do in times of flood and famine? And what about all these other kingdoms? By the end of the war, Dany is gone but the rest of the houses (who only fell in line because of the Targaryens) are still there. Also the north, ruled by his sister, gets to become a free independent kingdom but the rest of the lands don't? Are the other houses really okay with this shit just because Bran is a cripple? Seems like the whole story was one massive power grab by the Starks without ever showing how they ruled or maintained their rule, let alone saying anything at all about the human condition. Of course that's what happens when you're a fat fucking idiot who can't finish his own story and outsources it to hollywood jews so you can pay for all the happy meals you're shoving in your fat fucking face. Respectfully.

>>21488891
This is why pipe smoking needs to make a comeback, a gentleman having a chill time is always effortlessly cool. Cigarettes are for tryhards.

>>96082802
Sorry, OP here, posted the wrong image.

>Gurm, ah, George, hm, ah pardon me, GRRM - (should I perhaps be flattered?), you must understand, dear boy, that I am in fact wholly preoccupied with my own work
*lights pipe*
>And I simply haven't the time to contend with your 'quibbles', as you put them
*chuckles affably*
>Despite having passed on, oh, some 40 years ago to sit at the right hand of Eru Iluvatar, I have not, as they say, rested on my laurels, indeed!
*blows smoke rings*
>Why, just this past year another one of my works on the Nature of Middle-Earth was published, and, I must confess wholeheartedly, much of that coupled together from notes I had hastily scrawled on napkins or indeed any bare scrap of paper I could find in an idle hour! I am sure you can relate, yes?
*laughs uproariously*
>Simple stuff, really, the measurement of Elvish life-spans in comparison to our own brief lives, mating cycles, the cosmology and movements of celestial bodies, physical characteristics of the Fellowship, Elvish economy (a subject I understand you have some particular interest in, yes?)
*winks*
>As it stands, and to my great regret, any forthcoming discussions between the two of us on the subject of this-or-that will simply have to wait. Before you go, however, how is your own work going? I understand you're making some steady progress?
*blows more smoke rings*
>Mr. Martin?

>zoomer spergs about a plothole they think they found in lotr
>bookchad calmly explains the lore that not only removes any such plothole but gives the movies an extra added layer of depth
every fucking time