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>What if we did Lord of the Rings but instead of being heroic, Frodo fucked a bunch of whores and Aragorn got dysentery and shat himself to death?
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>>23821082
He surpassed Tolkien and made the fantasy genre better.
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Based.
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>>23821098
Lol. Lmao even.
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>>23821098
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>>23821082

ASOIAF is not based on LOTR, but in any case it is a billion times better.
LOTR is lame as fuck when it comes to the actual plot.
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>>23821156
It's true. Stay mad.
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>>23821207
GRRM doesn't have a fucking clue how to resolve his plot. He was a bluffer all along.
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>>23821213
Not him, but LMAO.
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>>23821082
LOTR is just Hebraic mythology but with Scandinavian names
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>>23821380
this, asoiaf redditors need to forgo literacy forevermore and return to the mud fields
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>>23821082
>What if we did Lord of the Rings but instead of being heroic, Frodo fucked a bunch of whores and Aragorn got dysentery and shat himself to death?
Hello, Based Department?
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>>23821082
This is the filter we need, if you don't genuinely want to read that book, gtfo
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>>23821082
>Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy what has been invented or made by the forces of good
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>>23824571
-Guy who named his fantasy world “Middle-Earth”
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>>23824594
>it’s bad because it’s simple and not contrived macabre bullshit
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>>23824594
>Bilbao you say? *hits pipe*
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Which he derived from the Norse concept of "Midgard," that is, the middle kingdom between heaven and hell.
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...which is properly spelled Midgård, as in being the realm that's the middle one of nine worlds that reside in the world-tree.
What is this mispelled Hel that you speak of?
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>>23821082
>>23821098
The fact that /lit/ only praises Tolkien as a secondary to shitting on George helps the case



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