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I agree with a lot of what you say, but your last line is ridiculous. Everyone in LotR was armed to the teeth, and that was no hindrance to expressing their feelings for one another.

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Its not about the weapons it’s about the weapon culture. In the LOTR they respected the weapons and their purpose, simple.

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I’m not sure how that is different. They had same sort of awe for weapons that a lot of weapon hobbyists do. Hell, I remember reading about/seeing ceremonial and decorative weapons in LOTR.

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I’m sure any gun nut will happily tell you how much they respect guns.

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Thank you, very nicely put into context.

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This is nonsense

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Pretty sure the goodly people like humans, elves, dwarves, and Hobbits didn’t mow down their own kids with crossbows on a regular basis like we do with our guns.

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Historically there’s been a shitload of children slaughtered with swords and arrows.

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During war. Really reaching aren’t we.

And completely ignoring the fact there are modern countries in the world today where children are not regularly shot to death in school.

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Well yeah it was a war. Everyone was armed to the teeth because war. Except in the shire where nobody was armed because peaceful land of homes.

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