Who paid the Fellowship for their work?

Who paid the Fellowship for their work?

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Who paid Galadriel to riverdance?

Literally everyone rich

because freedom isnt free user

Elves literally gave them a bunch of valuable shit.

Pippin got a suit of armor from Denethor and got to keep it.

Why do people take it so out of context. He literally literally said he liked LotR. Hell his more important point was did Aragorn massacre all the tiny baby orcs too?

They held a 1,5% commission on the mutual funds earnings

Who was saurons auditor?

What sorts of health insurance policy was set up for hobbits, hmm? If one got stage four kidney cancer, but lingered on for years, what political infrastructure guaranteed continued care for them and fringe benefits for their dependents, hmm?

Let's see:
>Gandalf
Far above material things. The Hobbits gave him kilograms of Old Toby when whenever he dropped by the Shire and that's all he cared about.
>Aragorn
Literal king of all men. He was rich as a ranger and the richest man in Middle Earth after the War.
>Legolas
Prince of Mirkwood. He was just bored.
>Gimli
Comes from a wealthy family. Not to mention Gloin was rich as fuck after Erebor.
>Boromir
lel
>Frodo
Sole heir to Bag End. Bilbo was rich as fuck before The Hobbit and came home with treasures beyond imagining.
>Merry
Hobbit royalty. The Brandybucks were fucking loaded.
>Pippin
The Tooks were Hobbit jews. He had land and money enough.
>Sam
Poor as fuck gardener. The only member of the Fellowship that would actually require payment. He snatched up that prime Hobbit pussy and that's treasure enough.

Everyone but Sam was a bored, spoiled brat that just needed something to do.

Who payed The Eagles?

(((Saruman)))

How did orcs know what a menu was?

Ooh ooh see how high they flyyy

>"What was Aragorn's tax policy?"
>never bothers to describe the Iron Throne's tax policy
What did he mean by this?

>lol you see I'm clever because MY fantasy kingdom is in debt even though nothing ever comes out of it whatsoever!
Thanks gurm

Where was the designated shitting river in the Shire?

Who was responsible for the fellowships health insurance?

Elrond. Did you even watch the kino?

Why didn't Frodo and Sam discuss the bonus situation?

>baby orcs
But that's not a thing. Orcs don't reproduce.

That's what the PR campaign told you after they incarcerated millions of babby orc skeletons

>incarcerated
fug
incinerated

His story will probably end with the Iron Bank being the only winner. The Dragon slut and her Dragons will be killed. Jonsno will be killed. His ugly af sisters, killed. Jamie and Cersi will be the survivers and rule the kindoms, but they will be heavily in debt and rely on the Iron Bank to keep their power illusion going. And thus, the cycle continues.

Following the war of the ring, did Gondor initiate a five year economic plan for reconstruction?

I see. But what about all that shit in Isengard where they are being pulled out of the dirt and reborn, as if they were once elves or some shit, but now are grotesque creatures that shouldn't be without evil magic.

Stuart of Gondor

finish twow you fat fuck

Yes, Aragorn seized the means of production

It's what happens when elves don't get to do their makeup in the morning

Iron Bank itself doesn't make sense since any supremely rich organization would get BTFO in a moment if not backed by a military force of its own in a medieval setting.

Tell that to the Rothschilds.

They also founded both the Crown and Stannis without really getting any deivident off of it
I can't imagine them lasting for 1k years or whatever timeframe it was with these awful loans

Wasn't it Stannis or the Lannisters whose forces are made up of Iron Bank mercenaries?

I would if I considered 18th century medieval ages.

>they do it for free

The book has made tons of references to paid sell swords, and even large armies of such working for who ever pays the most. Then there's all the assassins they could hire.

The fat man better do something with the bank. He built up this image of them as something that can't be denied it's payment.

They are backed up by a millitary force dummy

>le Iron Bank meme
>gives out a huge as fuck loan to Stannis without any coverage, not even asking what the fuck he wants to do with the mercs he hires
>its guaranteed that they wouldn't given him a single copper if they knew that he wants to go with his army to the wall in the fucking winter

This is where the whole concept of the iron bank falls flat
An institution that just willy nilly founds a whole army to some random dude with no actual prospects, just because his right hand made a nice speech, is not going to survive for thousands of years

what did they mean by this?

>The Hobbits gave him kilograms of Old Toby when whenever he dropped by the Shire and that's all he cared about.
Was Gandalf a drug dealer ?

He criticised Lord of the Rings because it wasn't something that it never set out to be in the first place.
That deserves mocking.

>mfw my gf has been talking about her bonus all week because I keep asking about the bonus situation

You fuckers have ruined me.

kill yourself

Yes, Tolkien adressed Pippin's first mortgage, but what about second mortgage?

The Uruk Hai were supposed to be half orc, half human. But both Tolkien and Peter Jackson preferred to skim over the details of that ...

>mfw the bowels of Isengard were full of pregnant and terrified human rape-slaves

Literally this.

In heroic sagas, the heroes have always been rewarded with valuable artifacts. It was just the practical way to pay them off. Lugging around masses of coins was difficult and dangerous, so finely-crafted jewellery, ornate weapons and armour etc. were used as practical stores of wealth.

This dates back to the Iliad and Odyssey, when there wasn't even a monetary system to pay people with.

Yes but you can't pay for a house with a suit of armor. You can't buy food with a gold chain. How did they not starve?

>Yes but you can't pay for a house with a suit of armor.
even a barely decent chainmail shirt is worth more than a family house

>You can't buy food with a gold chain.
actually you can that's the whole point

So they are expected to sell the highly personal, unique, and meaningful presents they were given to ceremoniously?

yes

Also why trophies are traditionally cups or plates. In the old, old days, people kept their precious metals in functional objects

ahhh fuck

Except it was never a criticism. Do you even know the context of the quote?

He was asked why his fantasy stories were dark and what influence he had from LotR

They were supposed to be corrupted eloves at least in the first generation. If they were ever babies is actually a point he never answered because he didn't want to make a species that was born evil (conflicted with his religion too much) but he also didn't think they would be able to indoctrinate all young orcs so well that they were all evil by adulthood

Who paid the orcs? Are we to believe that they follow Sauron even though all he provides is maggoty bread?

Maybe maggoty bread is an orcish delicacy, kind of like maggoty cheese IRL: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casu_marzu

>How did they not starve?
Because they had estates, farms and servants to provide for them. These are noble legendary heroes we're talking about, not some roving bunch of D&D characters.

Why would they get sick of a delicacy? I mean they were ready to cut off someone's leg. That seemed a little extreme considering they have the orcish equivalent of beef wellington.

Why would you say something so mean?

Too much of a good thing, user. Also the scene could've been there to show that orcs are naturally violent savages, as some races and cultures are known to be in real world.

It is a completely unrealistic depiction then. I have never seen a negro killing a white man while the former still had fried chicken at his disposal.

Maybe orcs are more like Muslims?

Or dunlending bulls amashing orc pussy 24/7

The prospect of rape and plunder were chief attractions of joining a medieval army. Plus the knowledge that you were unlikely to starve.

fucking lol im so triggered by this

>Cersei cut a deal with the High Septon so the crown's debt (only from money borrowed from the church) would be forgiven and in return The Faith reinstated The Warriors Sons and The Poor Fellows two orders that use violence to push the agenda
>The Iron Bank is officially supporting Stannis the Mannis to take over from the Lannisters/Tyrells

The easterlings were the muslims though.

Saruman had delicatessens.
Where else did you think they heard of menus?

Yeah, the entire journey through middle earth was actually just them trying to get to MacDonald's while tripping balls.

aww gawsh you're so clever and non-conventional Georgie

>the iron bank backs stannis and the crown is in huge debt to them
>we never see the repercussions of this

Sam became mayor of Hobbiton. His whole adventuring thing was just a scheme to gain political capital.

>car rolls up to speaker box, Gandalf leans out
>mmmmm yes hello I would like a mclambres extra cheese-
>I WANT CHIPS
>Shut up, Sam!

>Stannis squanders all their money fighting in the north
So now that the Iron Bank essentially squandered an entire kingdom's worth of money funding Stannis's war, what will happen to the Iron Bank?

Going on a life changing adventure to destroy one of the most powerful evil forces Middle Earth has ever seen with the heirs of three of Hobbiton's most prominent families put his name on everyones lips. Sam was a fucking political genius.

So the crown still spent decades lending more and more money to the crown without any guarantee that they'd be getting it back, and then went on to support another candidate with zero prospects who proceeded to waste his army and can't pay fuckall back
Nice going mighty bank of braavos

The characters are only as smart as the guy writing them. In this case, not very.

>Gurm's fictional economies are based entirely on mountains of gold and prostitution

such realism

Elrond. Gandalf shakes him down on the way home in a deleted scene

they will go bankrupt.

But that's the show and the show got less logic.

They basically said this already. They will go fund the army of who's most likely to win the war. They'll fun the dragon whore I bet. Typical Benioff and Weiss

Why does GRRM always look as though he should be manning a shrimping vessel off the coast of newfoundland as opposed to writing fantasy novels?

read up on gift giving in the Archaic period

That was a film bro, not a book. Orcs reproduce like men so Uruk hai are literally bred from rape.

The House of the Faceless Men is funded by the bank. They train their initiates by brainwashing them into killing for "just causes", and eventually after enough brainwashing the members of their assassin cult are sent to perform assassinations against money, often in service of the Iron Bank.

also it is sadly realistic that bankers make big bets that might end up costing them money, like betting on Stannis because they happened to pissed at the current monarch,

maybe if he described the taxation policies of the kings in his own book maybe he wouldnt have come off as such a massive dickhead and moron

Rivendell is loaded, the last legal continuation of past Noldor kingdoms. Elrond family is rich in ways the commoners of Middle Earth cannot even grasp.
Imagine all those 10000 year old Noldori heirlooms, swords filled with jewels, armours made of mithril and decorated with who knows what kind of elven jewelry they took with them from the Undying lands.

imagine how big a collateral loan you can get from the Central Bank of Valinor in exchange of THREE SILMARILS.
Enough to fund a gigantic excursion to Belerieland for your extended family that lasts a few thousand years.

what happened to his nose?

He looks like he should die in a plane crash.

it's especially hilarious seeing as how he died in the tv show and will die in the books, great investment there iron bank

>also it is sadly realistic that bankers make big bets that might end up costing them money
Only when there's a government to bail them out

the (((Lembas))) lobby.

>YEAH CAN I GET A FUCKIN UUUGHHHHHHHH

They have leverage in the form of debt owed to them, they could get most influential people to do their dirty work

Sam was a poorfag tho.

The main reason that the Iron Bank is stupid is that it's on another fucking continent than most of its users.

The only thing he looks like he should be manning is a couch.

Nice history meme

Medieval armies were either hired men or part of a military caste that owed military service to their lord

He just wanted a vacation... little did he know what was in store. I believe the people of Gondor gave him a new vest, and he really came out of it in the best position if you consider all that Cotton he got.