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Comment author: wedrifid 16 June 2013 07:12:39AM 7 points [-]

LotR is a Mileu story

milieu?

This is why it would've been hard for Lord of the Rings to contain conflicted characters without becoming an entirely different story

I thought some of the characters were conflicted. In the "good vs stupid" sense.

Comment author: ShardPhoenix 16 June 2013 07:35:10AM *  0 points [-]

See the OB post linked at the top.

Comment author: wedrifid 16 June 2013 08:07:20AM 4 points [-]

See the OB post linked at the top.

(My question was asking for confirmation that "Mileu" was a misspelling of "milieu" rather than some new word that I have not heard of and could not find on google.)

Comment author: [deleted] 17 June 2013 04:15:24AM 1 point [-]

So, it was a misspelling of "milieu", correct?

Comment author: wedrifid 17 June 2013 05:29:59AM 1 point [-]

So, it was a misspelling of "milieu", correct?

Yes. (Well, almost certainly. I think if it wasn't I'd have been corrected by now and Robin Hanson's use was of milieu.)

Comment author: DanArmak 16 June 2013 06:58:53PM 0 points [-]

Why is "good" vs "stupid" a conflict? Are they contradictory?

Comment author: wedrifid 16 June 2013 07:05:12PM *  3 points [-]

Why is "good" vs "stupid" a conflict? Are they contradictory?

Yes. Doing things that result in predictable bad outcomes is bad. "Meaning well" does not especially impress me (any more).

Comment author: wanderingsoul 17 June 2013 04:33:02AM 0 points [-]

Please taboo "good". When talking about stories especially, good has more than one meaning, and I think that's part of your disagreement

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