> having the time of our lives, until we all die in our thirties of some easily-preventable disease.
Dysentery. Look how many times the great warlords of Europe have been stopped by the simple fact that they don’t wash their hands and the history has been changed. If LoTR was anything like the middle ages (which it doesn’t try to be, it models itself more according to the great sagas) Aragorn would just die a horrible death of shatting blood in insane pain.
I recentrly read Graves’ Goodbye to All That and his description of the trenches is exactly like Mordor. But there’s no elves and hobbits, it’s just orks fighting orks. Reading it as an adult at the whole book is extremely coloured by Tolien’s experiences in First World War (he was in Somme, the poor bastard) to the extent you might call it the best book about The Great War. Of course none of this I understood when I read it at 12-years-old. It was all elves and dwarves and balrogs and good vs evil. But I grew up.
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Dysentery. Look how many times the great warlords of Europe have been stopped by the simple fact that they don’t wash their hands and the history has been changed. If LoTR was anything like the middle ages (which it doesn’t try to be, it models itself more according to the great sagas) Aragorn would just die a horrible death of shatting blood in insane pain.
I recentrly read Graves’ Goodbye to All That and his description of the trenches is exactly like Mordor. But there’s no elves and hobbits, it’s just orks fighting orks. Reading it as an adult at the whole book is extremely coloured by Tolien’s experiences in First World War (he was in Somme, the poor bastard) to the extent you might call it the best book about The Great War. Of course none of this I understood when I read it at 12-years-old. It was all elves and dwarves and balrogs and good vs evil. But I grew up.