Re:A common urban intersection in the Netherlands
by arethuza on Thursday November 21, 2024 @08:06AM
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I did always wonder about the general standard of living in the Shire - always seemed suspiciously high to me.
Re:A common urban intersection in the Netherlands
by partdavid on Thursday November 21, 2024 @11:24AM
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Because it's attempting mythisimilitude, not verisimilitude.
Re:A common urban intersection in the Netherlands
by Earw0rm on Thursday November 21, 2024 @05:33PM
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Decent amount of manufactured goods, always enough food, no sign of a serf labouring class or any manufacturing to speak of.
It's 18th(ish) century rural England, without all the stuff that made 18th century rural England a relatively comfortable place, which is to say colonies, the slave trade, the early industrial revolution and so on.
Re:A common urban intersection in the Netherlands
by renewiltord on Thursday November 21, 2024 @11:45AM
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That’s amusing. Not anywhere near the same but The Last Ringbearer has Mordor as an industrializing society unfairly maligned.
This romanticist nonsense also means that adequately lit and drained paths - for walking, cycling and wheeling at all hours - inevitably attract rural NIMBY ire.
"Preserve the character of our rural village with its 5000 SUVs and its manor house built by plantation owners".
Presumably someone's done a Tolkien fanfic where it turns out the hobbits have a bunch of plantations in Numenor or somewhere populated by enslaved Uruks, and the twee-ness is a front for general assholeness and moral hypocrisy?