Oh, I won't debate that GRRM is a genuine Tolkien fan and therefore may have thought that 'a more realistic Middle-earth' was the best way to describe his intentions, or that he attempted to emulate Tolkien in the scope of his world; I mean, he rather obviously paid hommage to the Professor at some points (
Valar morghulis). My comment was more a reply to
Marhwini's claim that any such attempt 'needs to be approached on Tolkien's terms' - GRRM is not
actually writing about Middle-earth, Robert Baratheon isn't Aragorn, so there's no reason for him to bother with Tolkien's 'coherent theological and metaphysical system'. It's entirely possible to be a reverent fan and still do things totally different from Tolkien - and now I feel I've rather overstated my point and will shut up about this.
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Originally Posted by Kuruharan
It almost in a way would have been a bit tedious...or sordid...or some word in between those two.
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Sordious?
Sordid I get, I think, as in dragging the reader down into the dregs of the human condition after the elating eucatastrophe of Sauron's fall and the Return of the King (but didn't
The Scouring of the Shire already do that?). Tedious, I dunno - for him to write, or for us to read?