Did Aragorn use a progressive income based tax system, or was it mainly based on goods and services consumed?
>>25470713If Aragorn was such a good guy why didn't he call for open elections the moment he got crowned?
>>25470803Why, so he could gloat?
>reddit talking point
>>25470713>criticizes Tolkien for not describing Aragorn's tax policy>proceeds to describe none of his own rulers' tax policiesi don't get it
>>25470713when's this fat bastard gonna die?
Iirc, he runs a police state fucking over the aristocracy and after his childless death the throne goes to faramir who starts a democracy.
>>25471148deeply incorrecthe has several children and Faramir was his most loyal adjutant Tolkien proposed that in a hypothetical next book (that he did not want to write) the enemy would primarily be men who behaved in orcish ways and larped as mordorites because they had not experienced the horrors of the third agea book about bored, cosplaying, poser subversives gathering in the night to discuss the supposed freedom in practicing an idealized version of the way of the orc It was his take on the England of his then present against the England he grew up inIt would mostly have been about conspiracies and neighbors fighting neighbors, the scouring of the shire for 300-400 pagesHe claimed it would have been too depressing to write, and probably quite pointless and he was objectively correct
>>25471161Yeah but the Last Ringbearer is great. The elves are nazis who want to turn middle-earth into a curated garden by genocide. Faramir started a democracy. Sauron was a hero and the wizard council was a conspiracy to keep the world in a backwards state so that it needs to rely on wizards, saruman was a whistleblower and had to be silenced. Isengard was a civilian target dammit
>>25470713What was Gregor Clegane's tax policy? Did his men rape all his peasants while they worked the fields? Did Gregor rape all the women from his keep? How does he get by when his men just rape and torture all the small folk? Why does he employ literal orcs?
>>25471118He already is as far as it matters
>>25470713Taxation in Middle Earth would most likely be in the form of poll taxes, feudal dues, tax farming, and toll fees. A direct tax on a person's income is a modern thing. Most countries didn't adopt it until the 20th century.
>>25470803Democracy is a false god.
I don't recall the kings of Westeros having a tax system either. Gurm a HACK.
>>25471170The Slavs prove themselves, as always to be the perfect race of slaves for evil retards to rule over
>>25471115Robert was lazy and spent lavishly, caring more about feasts and tourneys. This allowed characters like Little Finger to skim off the top and enrich themselves, growing more powerful, and gave the Lannisters more power as they were a wealthy house and could alleviate the Crown's financial problems in exchange for another Lannister cousin appointed to a prominent position.These are not mere casual throwaway lines, but a key part of the plot of the whole story.
>>25470713>Did Aragorn use a progressive income based tax system, or was it mainly based on goods and services consumed?Aragorn road peasants down in order to gain a tenth. He resettled lands with monestaries that used non-Capitalist wage labour to atone for his sins. The Shire is the result of ethnic cleansing.
>>25471118Before finishing Winds, that's for sure.
>>25470713Only Aragon I know, sorry.
>>25472991>women ar the future of ManFuck this woke-ass nigga.
>>25470803Uuh anon, him being a good guy is EXACTLY why he didn’t support democracy.
>>25471148>>25471170This is that Russia book where (as expected for Russians) they need to fan fiction the story to make the objectively evil industrial empire that destroys beauty and community for the sake of a tyrannical despot look like the good guys.
>>25472371sad little tradlarper
