Será George R.R. Martin melhor que J.R.R Tolkien?

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E só lembrar o @Elring que ainda há um bom bocado de textões disponíveis em data próxima da atual sobre a produção literária antiga ou recente e outros elementos da cultura pop feitos no momento atual apesar das mudanças do último septenio.

Defending George R.R. Martin: A Reply to Reading Tolkien

The good people at the Reading Tolkien podcast have put out a new piece, which spends some time comparing the underlying moral positions of George R.R. Martin and J.R.R. Tolkien: (The relevant disc…

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Muito bom;

*To clarify, Tolkien follows intentionalist ethics, whereas Martin is a consequentialist. Tolkien judges the morality of an action by whether the intentions were Good in themselves or in accordance with virtue (often they aren’t. But being good is damned hard). Martin judges the morality of an action by whether it results in something good. Saruman is Tolkien’s comment on consequentialism. Ned Stark is Martin’s comment on intentionalism.

De interesse no mesmo blog, uma análise bastante interessante sobre o potencial bias da narrativa da Segunda era toda focada em cima do Akhalabeth; Muito apropriado pra gente lembrar até que ponto o Legendarium de Tolkien era algo mesmo uma 'história pronta e um mundo consolidado'

Elendil the Insufferable Lying Bastard: Historical Bias in the Akallabêth (Part One)

For the past thirty years, substantial scholarly work has been done on the role of Historical Bias in Tolkien’s Silmarillion. Essentially, the premise is that Tolkien was deliberately present…

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Firing Canon: Finding Authority in Middle-earth

A subject doing the rounds at the moment is the question of Tolkienian Canon. On one hand, there are the passionate Purists, for whom fidelity to Tolkien’s text is paramount in assessing Adap…

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Medieval Contexts in Modern Fantasy Fiction: J. R. R. Tolkien and George R. R. Martin

The argument in the book is aimed at illustrating how the fantasy fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien and George R. R. Martin is influenced by the legacy of medieval heroic literature, and also how the secondary worlds created by the respective authors enter

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