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randomnameless · 5 months

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Re-rere watching LotR yesterday because why not -

I finally found out what was my obession from a few (lel) months (13) ago with Supreme Leader's crown, I was sure I saw her wearing this :

But I was bamboozled, because during that time, I was also re-re-rewatching LotR, and actually, I had in mind Aragorn's crown .

Now, why the fuck did I thought Supreme Leader wore this, I guess my brain fried.

Also, while I know LotR isn't supposed to be realistic depiction of "european life in the middle ages (european because europe is kind of the same from Spain to the British Islands, trust me I have a degree)", and given how "did y'know feudalism was BaD that's why it was dropped" became the topic of the week, I was thinking a bit about the "feudalism" argument from FE16's fandom.

In LotR, Theoden doesn't really like the Gondor, because when tragedy and disasters befell the Rohan, the Gondor was nowhere to be seen, they didn't help the Lords of Rohan, despite being their suzerain lord.

In turn, in the movies, Denethor feels like Theoden and the Rohan betrayed him, when they didn't come for help, as requested.

Of course everything is well that ends well, but I found it interesting that here, we got the very "basic basics" of "feudalism" written : the vassals assists and supports his suzerain lord, but the suzerain has a duty to protect/help the vassal.

Of course, those are broad and general principles, and more over, they only apply to nobles and not to Bob the peasant, which is a shame when peasants represents 90% of the population at that time.

Back to Fodlan, the uwu feudalism argument is often throw at the Kingdom, because kingdom = middle ages (please don't ask about current monarchies) = feudalism = Evyl, I guess.

But think a second about it.

If Faerghus is supposed to be a feudal state, why the fuck wasn't House Charon terminated on spot when Cassandra, the heir, was accused of regicide? Lonato later mounts an attack on GM - targeting, even indirectly, his own crown prince. Again, why the frick House Gaspard is left intact and wasn't dismantled?

Lonato and Cassandra broke their oath to their suzerain lord and tried to kill them (even if it was bonkers for Cassandra).

And talking about House Charon, even if Catherine's name is eventually cleared, I still find it odd that a great House like Charon wouldn't have some grudge or even a beef at the Crown (Uncle Rufus here!) for basically having thrown away their daughter and heir out from the Kingdom for what was mostly baseless accusations.

Oh, well, morale of the story : I should stop watching LotR movies before going to bed lol

#random thoughts #i wonder why I thought that crown was on Supreme Leader's head #oh well #did you know feudalism BaD #one of my biggest pet peeves with Faerghus' writing is House Charon's situation #and the entire Catherine backstory tbh #who sold her as a conspirator in regicide? Christophe or some randoms?#why the frick didn't Uncle Rufus send people to Rhea's door asking her to return Cassandra bcs she needed to pay for her 'crimes'?#was House Charon thinking Cassandra did it and they joined the hunt or were they desperatly trying to find proofs she was innocent?#meanwhile dimitri is talking about dark mages but no one listens to him :(#FE16

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