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Originally Posted by littlemanpoet
Tolkien's plot was way more complex. No problem there.
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That's what I thought...
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I'm suggesting that the cultural setting is not as stratified as you are describing, nor the people so under the thumb of lords. The society was known for its free land holders, with Thains and Eorls, as opposed to lords with manors holding people in feudal domination.
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Naturally... I mean those suggestions were just shorthand notes as to some general possibilities (I mean I have already hundred times more complex ideas about it already - not to talk of adding other people's contributions to it).
Also. After our last discussion on the general political climate on Rohan I have actually taken heed of your description of it as the libertarian utopia and at least hope I have acted / written accordingly. But if it is the libertarian land I think can be backed by the writings of Tolkien at least in part, then we must remember that ultimate freedom and the absence of state also means the "freedom" to be oppressed or the "freedom" to oppress... I mean how would an independent and "free" farmer with only his family around him oppose someone like Faramund if he came there with a dozen eorlinga and demanded this or that? Or if he gave him these or those terms for a deal to help him?
I mean if you get people organized against the oppression of the higher class you know what system of political arrangement we're talking about then?
