What do they eat?

But cows and sheep can dumbass

But what, oh what, can you do with vast amounts of grazing land, user?

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No civilization in history has survived purely off cattle meat. Also look at that picture and tell me where the fuck this massive supply of livestock would be. The entire population is penned up in that tiny hill town.

Screams mutton and haggas to me, personally.

Didn't see one herd of animals in the whole movie

Absolute brainlet defense grasping at illogical straws. Where are the ranches? Off screen?

Tomatoes, sausages, nice crispy bacon.

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More proof that you literally have to be retarded with no concept of how civilizations function to defend this. Basically you have to have a Peter Jackson or lower to accept this idiocy

Do you know how sheep herding worked prior to the 20th century? How many acres of grazing land you need for just 10 of any give species we farm?
You don't just keep them on one little happy hill, especially when that hill is already that populated lol.

Tolkien always described the area around settlements as cultivated land and earlier depictions reflected that, God only knows why Jackson decided that half of Middle Earth should take place on the Steppe.

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Shepherds don't just keep their flock next to the town all year round, but maybe you should close the browser and take a moment to cool off, you seem really mad

cheaper you dumb fuck. not that anybody really even cares about a movie being realistic

What do they eat bro?

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Oh yes, the Lord of the sheep, a story centered around a shepherd boy in the fictional Middle Earth and his plight to defend his charges from orcs and wargs. That's what those books were about lol
Find me a passage in any of the books, especially the two towers and all it's exposition, where they detail the livestock they kept in and out of the keep, if you possess the ounce of integrity it would take to do that.

>cheaper you dumb fuck.
That's the dumbest reasoning I've ever heard for it. Dramatic backdrops maybe would have been a valid reason, but because it was cheaper? Are you stupid? Do you really think in a film of that scope it would have been hard for them to add in some farmland somehow?

Irrelevant. For the sake of being immersive, these things should have been visible in the film. You do not need to say these details in a book because it is something the reader can fill in themselves

Jackson doesn't care about world building

>God only knows why Jackson decided that half of Middle Earth should take place on the Steppe.
The movies are a lot bleaker than the books.
The steppe like setting makes it look like the state of the world is very harsh and it gets harsher they get to Mordor. No farming means no trade, which emphasizes the isolation in some places.
Also, it would look right to have a vast field of green pastures surrounded by a snowy mountain range which is probably windy as fuck.

>Ranching sheep
>Medival European high fantasy
Well now using eagles is the least worrisome plot hole. Why didn't Dumbledore just use his colt 1860 on the Sauron's man? Or why didn't Frodo and Sam just hop the express line down to Mount Doom without even bothering with Gollum? Lol

I understand why he did it and I'm glad he didn't go overboard with CGI to do it but even as a kid seeing them I was aware of how empty the cities are
Minas Tirith is described as being pretty dense in its surrounding area with vineyards and farms and stuff, but you could always make the case a lot of its been raided or just cleared out, still there's no ruins
Edoras could've had farms all around it

>Visual mediums need to spoon feed me every detail
>Written mediums barely need printed words to maintain emersion
Get some sleep user, you look tired.

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yet they had a milion rohirrim in the minas thirith battle, such bullshit

They depict lots of farms and food at the beginning, around around the Shire, and the Prancing Pony. Thematically, this shows that the home they had to leave was a place of saftey and abundance. Later through the film, our heroes are in far away lands, with limited supplies and rations, helping to reenforce the fact that they left home, and all of its creature comforts.

Taters, precious

Horseshit.

horse pussy

mushroom and cheese in underground caves

Where do they poop?

Can you say for sure that the rock building are standing on isn't empty inside, and they in fact
don't grow mushrooms in it with the help of moist?
Can you?

horse milk.

Written mediums are half conjured in the imagination and so over detailing them with mundane things about farmland would not be necessary since I always filled that in when I read the lotr books. In the medium of film, I expect to see all that is there. If no farmland is present in any of the shots, am I to overlay my own imagination on top of them to account for logic? Perhaps we could dispense with clothes too, since many books don't focus on that aspect and we all assume the characters are wearing clothes. So maybe everyone in film should be naked? How far does this train of thought go?

The poop caverns of Mordor. Didn't you read the books?

Have you never heard of the Mongols?

there's cavern beneath rohan with trolls that eat their shit and on return they cut parts of their flesh to feed the rohirrim

>am I to overlay my own imagination on top of them to account for logic
>his brain is incapable of multi threaded thinking
You probably thought you were being clever with that analogy but your train of thought is absolutely retarded.
Also have you even read LOTR recently? 70% of the books are detailed descriptions of the environment for effect. There are several pages describing a forest which leave a lot less to the imagination than, say, "They traversed a lush green forest".

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I am aware of the overly descriptive nature of lotr and actually I find it very offputting. But I ask what is wrong with what I said? If we don't see any farmland, surely it is only natural to question what the fuck the people of Rohan and Gondor eat? I remember thinking this when I was a child. Real cities have populations that stretch wide outside the citadel, especially if the citadel's are as small as what is depicted in the films. I just think for the sake of immersion, it would have been better not to depict everywhere in the lotr films as being dead and lifeless. There would also be much more tangible stakes if the world actually felt like it had lives to lose

Mongols required constant movement to sustain a grazing food supply, obviously that wouldn't work in this tiny stationary town

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the cities in these movies are portrayed as archetypes. the shire has fields because it's the idealized rural agrarian community. rohan is open steppes because it's an idealized feudal horse rider culture. and gondor has a giant stone city in the plains because it represents the classic ancient empire past its peak. there's no need for an entire proper supply chain to be represented in these movies.

Farmer Maggot expanded his farmstead under the Bree Economic and Agricultural Stimulus Act (BEASA) which subsidized many of his livestock expenses.Of course there were many Belerianders upset with the act, which created a commodity surplus and slighted some of the other classes: like fisherman, tax collectors, shoemakers, tanners, saddle makers, tellers, marketers, stableboys, blacksmiths, laborers, landlords, and glassblowers. The weavers, however supported the act as it meant an inflated market for their materials. Incidentally, much of the surplus was deducted from tarifs to neighboring kingdoms, the Rohirrim farmers in particular suffered economically as demands for their crops plummeted. These farmers ended up migrating their assets to foreign markets.

But what was their tax policies?

This thread is so fucking retarded. Just a bunch of dickriding idiots trying to fill in the gaps for Hackson. The truth
Is hes just a fucking retard who didn't think about any of this shit.
>herds of sheep off screen
lmao

they were riding around gathering people

>dude just turn your brain off
No.

Wow an user on the film board who actually understands film making techniques. The fuck you doing here faggot you get lost on your way to reddit? Who cares about "themes", films and stories should be 100% fuckin REALISTIC at all times! Just like my animes!

>tolkiens books aren't over detailed
>4 pages of some fag singing or a paragraph describing a single bush isn't over detailed

>Knows how Mongolian step herding worked
>Refuses to acknowledge how medieval Europe herded around stationary hill forts like this
Why would sheep need to be moved across hundreds of acres a year in Mongolia but not in Europe? Did European sheep just eat a single blade of grass a week and they can stay at the bottom of a hill like this year round, slowly grazing the same circle? Lol

it's about artistic interpretation. naturally autists have trouble with that.

Never said it wasn't. Reading comprehension, nigger

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