Board Thread:Middle Earth Roleplays/@comment-26210095-20170401183633/@comment-26210095-20170403010107

High Prince Imrahil wrote: ChazmanianDevil wrote:

Maltalidenta Kwuitidherali wrote: "To be a lion we need teeth, and, for those teeth we need money. It'll be a pain, but we can't afford to lose now. Taxes are an inevitability, though indeed a sadness." "Then tax I say, and let us be repayed in full when we feast in the halls of Erebor." "I stand with The Admiral, My King.

As far as taxes go, it simply would not do to march forth with all our great hosts, only to find our lands in full revolt when we return. Let us simply borrow against the treasury. Taking Erebor would pay for itself ten times over!" "Are you not forgetting that Erebor is far to the north of us, and the strongest fortress in Middle-Earth, my Lord Alqua? And if the campaign is a failure, and we have spent all of that coin for nothing, the crown is deep in debt, how then are we to defend our land against the hordes from the East?"