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I was just thinking of this concept in light of the differences between LOTR and GoT.
People who came of age at the same time as Tolkien saw brutality, violence, sickness, death and war up close and personal.
People in our age cohort are removed from that (even GRRM's age). https://twitter.com/bellisaurius/status/1359863443973668868
People who came of age at the same time as Tolkien saw brutality, violence, sickness, death and war up close and personal.
People in our age cohort are removed from that (even GRRM's age). https://twitter.com/bellisaurius/status/1359863443973668868
While of course there are lots of other factors I do think being some distance removed from true violence makes the IDEA of it more appealing, we see this represented in our fiction
It's no stretch to imagine having no taste for violent portrayals of fiction if you had seen it.
It's no stretch to imagine having no taste for violent portrayals of fiction if you had seen it.
I wonder if we have the worst case scenario - both removed from true violence (good!) but inundated with fiction that glorifies violence, leading people to see war as a noble, even fun endeavor. (even when it's antiwar it's pro-war in many cases)
It isn't. It won't be.
It isn't. It won't be.
People sometimes pooh-pooh LOTR as being too "soft" compared to the later more bloodthirsty fantasies but it seems to me it is exactly the type of literature people who knew war and longed for peace would favor.
Makes me wonder what we are longing for...
Makes me wonder what we are longing for...
