>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?
>>23821082He surpassed Tolkien and made the fantasy genre better.
Based.
>>23821098Lol. Lmao even.
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>>23821082ASOIAF 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.
>>23821156It's true. Stay mad.
>>23821207GRRM doesn't have a fucking clue how to resolve his plot. He was a bluffer all along.
>>23821213Not him, but LMAO.
>>23821082LOTR is just Hebraic mythology but with Scandinavian names
>>23821380this, asoiaf redditors need to forgo literacy forevermore and return to the mud fields
>>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?
>>23821082This is the filter we need, if you don't genuinely want to read that book, gtfo
>>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
>>23824571-Guy who named his fantasy world “Middle-Earth”
>>23824594>it’s bad because it’s simple and not contrived macabre bullshit
>>23824594>Bilbao you say? *hits pipe*
>>23824594Which he derived from the Norse concept of "Midgard," that is, the middle kingdom between heaven and hell.
>>23824655...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?
>>23821082>>23821098The fact that /lit/ only praises Tolkien as a secondary to shitting on George helps the case