Not content with gifting me the perfect gift, you even add an extra special "making of" documentary for the Special Edition dvd. ;) Seriously, you are the most adorable of heroes.
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Not in terms of exact personalities
Absolutely not. Fritz is a stellar example of what Tolkien was afraid of people *becoming* if they acquired too much power. Crown Prince Fritz -> King Fritz and cases like that are why Tolkien was like, "If Gandalf takes the Ring with the best of intentions, it will end badly."
somehow I suspect the Shire would have ended up going toe to toe with Gondor
AHAHAHAAA, please nobody let Fritz have a ring of power. He already has too much.
Given Sam's, despite having gotten some education from Bilbo in addition to the gardener training from the Gaffer (i.e. learning how to read and write and poetry), no where near Frodo's level of education yet loves poetry and composes some, it fits on that level, too.
You're right, that's an awesome extra parallel, beyond the employee/employer dynamic.
(BTW: during the fallout time letters before the final Frankfurt catastrophe, Voltaire is always careful to include regards to Fredersdorf in his letters to Fritz, too. These strike me as sincere as young Crown Prince Fritz' regards to Émilie.)
Yup. I think they scoped out pretty fast who the other person's SO was.
To my absolute non-surprise Michael Roes, the author, confessed in an interview to having had a terrible relationship with his own father as well.
I can't remember if I read that or had just assumed it, but yeah. Speaking of reality vs. fiction, did you see my Zeithain question in the last post, btw?
We really need to find out where the embezzlement story comes from, don't we? Because it makes such a difference as to whether there's a primary source - say, an official letter - or whether it's some memoirist later mention it as a rumor.
I agree. Having looked at as many primary sources as we have and still not found a whiff of it, I'm treating it as apocryphal until further evidence surfaces.
Which makes me wonder where the "heartbroken over the loss of his honor" bit comes from, because again, it evidently wasn't a situation like with AW where everyone had heart of the court martial.
Agreed, I immediately thought of AW when I saw that, and wondered.
I suspect even using some money from the royal coffers to speculate with - not necessarily for himself, but to speculate with...which after two decades he could seen himself entitled to
That actually makes a lot of sense. And especially if Fritz was off at war and Fredersdorf was in Berlin, I could see Fritz not wanting to hear an explanation that he might have accepted in person, and just sending an order of summary dismissal back.
Of course, we have no idea at this point if this happened at all. Maybe Fredersdorf was really just super sick and only 8 months or whatever away from dying.
So here's a question: I have many data points on Fritz reacting to the deaths of people he loved, but none about Fredersdorf, which surprises me. Do you remember coming across anything where Fritz acknowledged/reacted to Fredersdorf's death?
Possibly, since Spartan FW would not have been raised a strict Calvinist and thus would have had no reason to feel guilty for any homoerotic urges.
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Not in terms of exact personalities
Absolutely not. Fritz is a stellar example of what Tolkien was afraid of people *becoming* if they acquired too much power. Crown Prince Fritz -> King Fritz and cases like that are why Tolkien was like, "If Gandalf takes the Ring with the best of intentions, it will end badly."
somehow I suspect the Shire would have ended up going toe to toe with Gondor
AHAHAHAAA, please nobody let Fritz have a ring of power. He already has too much.
Given Sam's, despite having gotten some education from Bilbo in addition to the gardener training from the Gaffer (i.e. learning how to read and write and poetry), no where near Frodo's level of education yet loves poetry and composes some, it fits on that level, too.
You're right, that's an awesome extra parallel, beyond the employee/employer dynamic.
(BTW: during the fallout time letters before the final Frankfurt catastrophe, Voltaire is always careful to include regards to Fredersdorf in his letters to Fritz, too. These strike me as sincere as young Crown Prince Fritz' regards to Émilie.)
Yup. I think they scoped out pretty fast who the other person's SO was.
To my absolute non-surprise Michael Roes, the author, confessed in an interview to having had a terrible relationship with his own father as well.
I can't remember if I read that or had just assumed it, but yeah. Speaking of reality vs. fiction, did you see my Zeithain question in the last post, btw?
We really need to find out where the embezzlement story comes from, don't we? Because it makes such a difference as to whether there's a primary source - say, an official letter - or whether it's some memoirist later mention it as a rumor.
I agree. Having looked at as many primary sources as we have and still not found a whiff of it, I'm treating it as apocryphal until further evidence surfaces.
Which makes me wonder where the "heartbroken over the loss of his honor" bit comes from, because again, it evidently wasn't a situation like with AW where everyone had heart of the court martial.
Agreed, I immediately thought of AW when I saw that, and wondered.
I suspect even using some money from the royal coffers to speculate with - not necessarily for himself, but to speculate with...which after two decades he could seen himself entitled to
That actually makes a lot of sense. And especially if Fritz was off at war and Fredersdorf was in Berlin, I could see Fritz not wanting to hear an explanation that he might have accepted in person, and just sending an order of summary dismissal back.
Of course, we have no idea at this point if this happened at all. Maybe Fredersdorf was really just super sick and only 8 months or whatever away from dying.
So here's a question: I have many data points on Fritz reacting to the deaths of people he loved, but none about Fredersdorf, which surprises me. Do you remember coming across anything where Fritz acknowledged/reacted to Fredersdorf's death?
Possibly, since Spartan FW would not have been raised a strict Calvinist and thus would have had no reason to feel guilty for any homoerotic urges.
That's exactly what I was going for!
She's also cooing and squeeing!
Yay, I'm glad you enjoyed the DVD extras! :DD