Now here's a bit of pseudo history that I'd never heard before, the claim that J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" was actually based on real history.https://twitter.com/Robkearney1981/status/1294803278354681856 …
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David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted Robert Kearney
Now here's a bit of pseudo history that I'd never heard before, the claim that J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" was actually based on real history.https://twitter.com/Robkearney1981/status/1294803278354681856 …
David Gorski, MD, PhD added,
David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted Dr Dimitra Fimi
An excellent deconstruction of this nonsense can be found in this thread.https://twitter.com/Dr_Dimitra_Fimi/status/1295384240620802049?s=20 …
David Gorski, MD, PhD added,
I had someone send me a quote as proof of some nonsense or other - I had to Google it, it was from Game of Thrones. I had to ask him if he knew Game of Thrones wasn't real - he said it didn't matter.
At least George R.R. Martin has generally been pretty explicit in describing the historical events that inspired Game of Thrones...
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