Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-29680750-20170806070151/@comment-25981649-20170817113748

MrHobit1234 wrote:

195.170.27.98 wrote:

MrHobit1234 wrote: Are you a complete moron? Saying that Gondor is feudal is like saying that ancient Egypt was fuedal! Tolkien even wrote an essay on how he took words and used them for his own purposes!


 * Makes an accurate assumption about a fictional early-medievalesque nation*


 * gets called a complete moron*


 * has to listen to a person say that Gondor was based on 'Egypt' despite constant repetition from Tolkien that no ME nation is based on a real one, despite Byzantine and Roman influences in Gondor*

Yes it was out of line, and I was saying that it was the closest to Egypt in culture than anything else, and about that Tolkien quite litterly said that Gondor was Venice, sooo that point is a bit null. Anyways, Gondor is not in any, way, shape, or form feudal.
 * hovers hand on drúgh nuke release button*

"The Numenoreans were proud, peculiar, and archaic and I think are best pictured in (say) Egyptian terms." Now, may I ask this? Was ancient Egypt feudal in any way shape or form? Fair enough, that makes sense.

"There is no broadly accepted modern definition of  feudalism. ... However, some have taken the  feudalism analogy further, seeing it in places as diverse as  ancient Egypt, the Parthian empire, the Indian subcontinent, and the Antebellum and Jim Crow American South."