It is is even more hilarious cause Tolkien finished his series and completed a prequel in the Silmarillion which told the lore fans wanted so badly. Meanwhile "Captain Fat Fuck" here can't complete his own series due to him making a complete clusterfuck out of it.
I hear this and I think of some doughy nerdling getting revenge on the boys who shoved him into lockers by writing stories where anyone with a lick of testosterone dies.
Anyone who thinks storytelling should be based on the unpredictability of death either isn't reading enough or is some kind of edgelord. Some people may like the bleak themes, but a lot of people have an endemic hope for things to turn out better or at least halfway that. For a general audience, a story without resolution (unless there's a statement) is a huge turn off.
Which is funny since history is chock full of those charismatic types who usually accomplish those kinds of feats or a good portion of it. William the Marshall? The dude not only survived under 5 kings while remaining loyal to each one including unpopular John I, but he was largely instrumental to the flawed, but historically significant Magna Carta that inspired a gradual decline in monarchy. Baldwin IV the Leper? He defeated Saladin multiple times despite dealing with an internally weak kingdom and a dying young body, having even earned the respect of his Muslim advesaries. Queen Jadwiga of Poland? She ruled like a man and didn't have to pull a Cersei to get what she wanted.
He can do all the stupid shit he wants, I just get to point and laugh at the fact he is a Lazy Fat Ass who is deathly afraid of finishing his series because it will have the same plot twists as Season 8 which everyone rightfully shits on like a portapotty.
The worst part is GRRM doesn't even do it correctly. Robert Jordan did the Tolkien deconstruction better and didn't need to start randomly killing characters for Shock Value because he actually deconstructed things like "The Chosen one" and "Gandalf kidnapping a bunch of Hobbits and taking them to be heroes"
On the topic of Harold and Martin, I recall some blog post from GRRM that, in one of his tirades against fan fiction, raked Lovecraft over the coals for not controlling his IP with an iron fist; yet what will GRRM's legacy be compared to Lovecraft's? Insignificant, is what.
Tolkien had the balls to not only stop writing indulgently because he knew it would go against what the fans wanted, he also had the balls to straight up say "Nope, can't be arsed and can't think of anything good."
He'll have the last laugh because he'll die in his comfy New Mexico house, all paid by the fans.
Is it funny if no one can remember him and his work stays forgotten? People will be talking of Tolkien and Lovecraft 100 years from now the same as they do Shakespere and the Greek Epics. People are already forgetting ASOIAF. That's the absolute worst thing to happen to an artist. To be dead and forgotten.
No you don't get it. It's much more realistic to have every noble family and house was routinely raping and murdering every single peasant, farmer, and servant they had in their employ. Realistic tax policy (which is very important to the story you see) is that you must decapitate every third farmer and rape every second woman. Just like r/history told me.
