> Though I’ll admit Tolkien could be an outlier here. To quote a military historian‘s analysis: „ Tolkien’s first-person experience of war and his deep groundi

> Though I’ll admit Tolkien could be an outlier here. To quote a military historian‘s analysis: „ Tolkien’s first-person experience of war and his deep grounding in medieval and Anglo-Saxon literature means that – while Tolkien does not stop to discuss Aragorn’s tax policy – Middle Earth tends to fit within the ‘zone of the possible’ much more neatly than Westeros. Armies in Middle Earth move at normal speeds, the economic and population systems (and the human terrain with them) make sense, characters behave within the confines of religious belief and social custom, and so on.“ (https://acoup.blog/2019/10/06/new-acquisitions-how-fast-do-armies-move/ https://acoup.blog/2019/10/06/new-acquisitions-how-fast-do-a...)