Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-30303386-20170417200211/@comment-26890432-20170419021741

Saying the American Colonies were founded for one single reason isn't really correct. A few of the New England colonies were founded to "Escape Britain", on the grounds of Religion. Even so, even these colonies became more economically focused over time. The Middle and Southern Colonies were founded primarily for moneymaking in the tobacco, sugar, and indigo industries. But even that is a generalisation: Georgia, for instance, was originally founded by a British General-turned-philanthropist as a haven for those wrongly imprisoned for debt, and as a slave-free colony. What I don't really like about these historical "comparisons" is the amount of (wrong) generalisations that occur. Especially this whole "Is Gondor really a good faction?" nonsense. Tolkien was very straightforward in outlining good and evil in his stories. It was his way of dealing with the lack of morals and no clear good or evil in World War I.