So basically you have to be born rich to do anything meaningful that's the lesson of Tolkien and fantasy in general
>>219850679Sam is the only reason Frodo makes it there
>>219850679A mythological fantasy, yes. Sounds about right.
>>219850679Before the shitty society we have now, the best quality people achieved the best.
How is Pippin higher ranking than Frodo, the Bagginses were practically nobility in the Shire.
>>219850897Thanks potus for bringing back that age
>>219850922Because he was actually nobility of the shire
>>219850679This is how he thinks about working class people
>acknowledges that the working class heroically (and sometimes literally) carries society and its leaders on its backbased Tolkien
>>219850679No wonder he know so much about potatoes
>>219850679If they are so rich why do they steal carrots?
>>219850922Pippin was the son of a Thain. Frodo was the cousin of a known adventurer and elf-friend. They are nothing alike.
>>219851110Because they're Anglos who are all thieves
>>219850679Notice that the most important one is Sam
So basically you have to be a CEO of a major company whenever you're still an infant that's the lesson of films in general
>>219851342Pippin is clearly Scottish.
That's true of real life. Kings were of the warrior class. Knights had to settle zoning laws as often as they jousted. George Washington was a wealthy slave owner, but he still found time to hurl barrels of gunpowder at British soldiers. Rich people used to be better.
Picrel took down a dragon with a single arrow. Just another day being a guardsman.
Was it racist against people who wear rings?
Wasn’t sam basically a tribute to the batmen/ncos that supported the officer corps during the war?
>>219850679Tolkien believed in the empire and saw the class division as not only the natural order but god's will
upper class monarchy style systems are better than democracy. in democracy rich people rule you anyway but their puppet politicians they pay to make popular so people vote for them act as scapegoats. in traditional monarchy-style systems leadership has direct visible accountability and can be lynched or replaced if they are failing.
>>219853864>he thinks monarchs cannot be puppetsLol
>>219850679Tolkien was a anprim royalist.
>>219850708This thought has been going around inside my head for the past many days for some reason. Like an intrusive thought hard to avoid in a pointless over-analizing.Then I tell to myself "True, but Sam wouldn't have made it without Frodo, either, dont you think?!".
>>219850897>rich people = "high quality" people (whatever that means)Are you a kid from the recent gens or just american to have that kind of mindset ("more money = better = happiness = life "on easy-mode" = etc")? Many people who prospered in life had a tough life from the start, or later on, but they persevered until making it.
>>219850679Sam is right there in your image and got Frodo through the final stretch
>>219850897No they didn't lol what the fuck are you even talking about
Gimli is literal royalty bruddah he's in line for the throne
>>219853864>and can be lynched or replaced if they are failing.Unless you're british, a people who seemed and still seem to this day to have absolutely no standards for their leadership
>>219854742They're a strange, iredeemably loyal race. They, to this day, would not consider taking any action to improve their own lots in life. To them it seems virtuous to just sit and endure. No wonder Americans had to split from them, I really cannot comprehend living like that. It's almost a living death.
>>219854526>(whatever that means)
>>219851110Merry and Pippin only do it and get away with it because they're basically nobility. A common hobbit would get a hiding while these two if caught would get chewed out
>>219851110they had to get it on
>>219853374jewelryfags deserve the rope
