Bad rulers who lived in obscene wealth and debauchery like the Ancien Régime in France while squeezing every last morsel out of their starving polulation. The Age of Enlightenment, which is just not a thing in Middle Earth (yet). In my opinion it is because the revolutions on Earth have been fueled by several things: While these are legitimate questions, I think it was not necessary for Tolkien to answer them, since he wanted to tell another kind of story. Trying to teach the Orcs to be good citizens." Did Aragorn carry out a policy of systematic Orc genocide? Did he send his knights out into the hills to kill all the Orcs? Even the little baby Orcs? Or was there Orc rehabilitation going on. Sauron fell down, but you see all the Orcs running away. They weren’t all killed, they ran away into the mountains. But I want to know what was his tax policy, and what did he do when famine struck the land? And what did he do with all those Orcs? A lot of Orcs left over. "He did what he wanted to do very brilliantly, I’ve said this before, but… I look at the end and it says Aragorn is the king and he says, ‘And Aragorn ruled wisely and well for 100 years’ or something. Last but not least, there was a lack of capitalist mentality, peasants were not asked to work to death, just to finance the (expensive) hobbies of their lords. Peasants were also generally not involved in wars, which would be a massive social stress. Part of it comes again from religion: God assigned you as a ruler, it's your responsibility to do a good job. Last but not least, surprisingly medieval aristocracy was relatively good in keeping their peasants happy and avoid rebellions. Also, there was a strong religion argument against revolting: the ruling class has been appointed directly by God. Before that there were only misorganized rebellions that mostly ended in a bloodbath by the ruling class. Revolutions are something that came with the creation of a middle class in modern era and with industrial revolution later on. My take is that people are too busy avoiding world destruction to start messing with their own rulers.Īside of that lotr is pretty much a medieval Europe. The second aspect is the constant presence of a greater for to fight, first mortgoth then Sauron. I guess you could justify that by the fact that a lot of kings immortal for what concerns elves, so no much hope of overruling them once they are in power. There is some political games in the second era with the house of numenor but that's about it. For the most part people are loyal to their kings and (almost) nobody has a hidden schedule. Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 15 Apr.Yeah it's something I always found a bit missing in Tolkien's work, there is not politics. Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023 In our testing, the Pacific Hybrid needed an additional 0.5 second to hit 60 mph relative to its more powerful kin. 2023 Timothy Treadwell, an environmentalist and a filmmaker who lived with brown bears in Alaska for thirteen summers, loved the bears, thought of them as his friends, his kith and his kin. Noah Berlatsky, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2023 What’s left after RST is unleashed is a symbol of what has been done, is still being done, to Retta and Kenny and their kin. Shawn Tully, Fortune, 26 July 2023 This is a problem for archivists and institutions, but also for individuals who might want to preserve the digital belongings of their dead kin. 2023 Of the almost 50,000 under the payments under the current VCF, around 31,000 went to the responders or their spouses or other kin. 2023 Daryl eventually finds his zombified kin, and can barely bring himself to put him down. 2023 Parents, grandparents, siblings and other kin of some of the 22 people killed last year at Robb Elementary streamed into the park, embracing the Olivers and each other. Noun Then Maximus-the Daniel of their group, an orphan who’s visited for the first time that night by either extraterrestrial kin or schizophrenic hallucinations-complicates this assertion of cosmic cohesion by slipping out of his friends’ grasp.
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