As a quick aside, PROTH and I have nearly finished our annual viewing of the Lord of the Rings extended editions – a holiday tradition that has become a warm, 11ish hour-long blanket of nostalgic bliss over the years, and a never-ending source of all the feels (spoilers) – but we still have a lot of fun critiquing certain parts as we watch, and especially the large scale battles and sieges.
So I was understandably excited when I found out about A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry, which is an absolute gem of a website that breaks down pop culture representations of premodern combat and societies to fascinating effect – including a six-part series deconstructing the Siege of Gondor and a larger worldbuilding page. Kudos to the site's operator and military historian extraordinaire, Bret Devereaux, for putting such a phenomenal, insightful, and entertaining resource together.
Orbital – or maybe this time terrestrial? – HQ, out.
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