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>>20447005
>Shitting is hard. This was maybe my answer to Tolkien, whom, as much as I admire him, I do quibble with. Lord of the Rings had a very medieval philosophy: that if the king was a good man, his shits would be solid. We look at real history and it’s not that simple. Tolkien can say that Aragorn became king and had regular bowel movements, and he was clean with one square. But Tolkien doesn’t ask the question: What was Aragorn’s fiber intake? Did he maintain a proper balence of soluble and insoluble fiber? What did he do in times of flood and famine? And what about all these orcs? By the end of the war, Sauron is gone but all of the orcs aren’t gone – they’re in the mountains with no toilet paper. Did Aragorn pursue a policy of systematic genocide and potty train them? Even the little baby orcs, in their little orc diapers?

>>17884846
>>17884851

>>9874296
yes

Bravo GRRM