Material-Causality on Marginaliahttps://sguzman.github.io/marginalia/tags/material-causality/Recent content in Material-Causality on MarginaliaHugoen-usSat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000The World Beneath the War: Material Reality in Westeros and Middle-earthhttps://sguzman.github.io/marginalia/research/grrm-deconstructed/Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://sguzman.github.io/marginalia/research/grrm-deconstructed/Compares material realism in Westeros and Middle-earth using causal integration rather than encyclopedic detail. Martin foregrounds scarcity, logistics, rule, and war while leaving some civilization-wide consequences of multi-year seasons abstract; Tolkien foregrounds landscape, memory, stewardship, and ecological damage without offering a quantitative agronomic simulation.