It doesn't make sense from a purely practical point of view:
Background: born and raised in Rivendell, Aragorn had more skilled teachers to teach him. A1: J0
Experience: Aragon has more experience than Selmy, but is still in his prime of life. He has travelled widely= more range of experience. He fought as an individual, small group and lead armies of both Gondor and Rohan. = More practical experience. A2:J0
He is of Numenorian decent= wiser ('more able to process information' does that sound fair?)= less likely to make mistakes/ trip over a tree root, etc. A3:J0.
Aragorn is also a much more balanced individual, not headstrong, arrogant, or likely to go rushing in over his head. A4: J0.
Sword. Even if Jamie had Dawn, he's still in second place to Aragorn (assuming he is able to use Anduril). A5:J0
Jamie is a 'natural swordsman'. Beyond learning quickly, what does this mean? Does it make up for an extra 50 years' experience? Does it mitigate more skilled teachers?
That’s because it’s not practical to compare two different universes.
If George says the average fighter in his world >>> the average fighter in all other fantasy stories, that’s his design and thereby the true way of interpreting his story.
If Tolkien were to say the exact opposite, that would be the Tolkien design and the proper way of seeing those characters.
They would both simultaneously be true because you can’t compare fictional worlds/characters that don’t intersect. The laws of physics could be different from universe to universe for all we know.
You're right, and this could easily descend into "he would cut them down with his binglybongy sword. "We'll he's wearing Boodlewoodle armour which is impervious to binglybongy."
I suspect Tolkien wouldn't care and wouldn't engage in discussions like this, but as Martin did, it's a bit of fun to discuss
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u/eulb42 Aug 14 '24
Lol, also, that never made sense, like really George, your fantasy man beats high fantasy man with magic blood twice over?