• @Got_Bent
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    7 months ago

    Since I’ve never seen either, I always thought the one does not simply thing came from game of thrones. Today I learned.

    • @Anticorp
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      217 months ago

      It is Ned Stark that says it, although he was known as Boramir at the time.

      • @Got_Bent
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        57 months ago

        Nope. Two things:

        First: I was raised in a whacko religious cult that forbade reading novels of any kind.

        Second: While I eventually got out of that nonsense and started reading, I’ve always had an irrational aversion to fantasy and period fiction like the kind with Victorian costumes and pretentious language. Lord of the Rings never appealed to me. I preferred reading early to mid twentieth century stuff like Steinbeck.