George R. R. Martin: The World of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones) 

+Plowbeast But there's nothing to read

+Josh White Trolling at it's best.

He's a very sick man.

+Mikia Soraka literally and figuratively

Well, he didn't said it's his newest book you should read. Probably the answer to our questions are already written? The ink is dry :-)

i had to turn subtitles on because i heard "Dead lion, what dead lion?"

@@ivopoulsen me too, lol.

Ya its soooooo magnificent that he refuses to finish the deadline because he cares more about money and fame than his readers, soooooooo magnificent

@@Haydenthemaker1000 Calm your butt down.

@@Haydenthemaker1000 If he would care about money and fame more than his fans, then he would release them as fast as he can and take the money.

lol

+Joey Nguyen No it's probably just his fat heart screaming for help.

Joey N. well if a little tiny old lady with a flower brooch was there...

I know my head snapped up like - You had better not die before you finish the books bastard

Somebody slipped the Tears of Lys in his water.😂😂😂

He was never obscure. One of the most prominent fantasy writers of our time long before the show. I still remember like yesterday when my friend gave me his SoIF copies to read back in 2007 because he thought that I had a huge hole in my fantasy fiction knowledge for not having read his books, and my girlfriend at the time had gone to a book convention to specifically get an autograph just from him a year before in 2006. His books were legend already way back before the show.

There is a very wide gulf between "obscurity" and "household name".

Imagine how many years this guy lived in obscurity. Everyone telling him to get things together and now he's one of the most sought after authors int he world. Take a moment George enjoy it you've earned it.

Prior to Game of Thrones, he certainly wasn't one of the most well-known authors of all time, but he has been a successful writer since the late 70s. In the science fiction world, he's been a prominent name since the 80s.

@@lookingforsomething I think he meant pre asoiaf

sly06002 the uncle your parents tell you to stay away from but is your favorite when you grow up to share a drink with

Game of Feels :(

fucking bran he just couldnt listen to three eyed raven

I think he did... Meera: "We're all going to die. We need Hodor. Warg into Hodor now." 3ER: "Listen to your friend, Brandon." 3ER knew what was about to happen. If I had to guess, he is teaching Bran the dangers of his new-found ability to affect the past.

+singinwhatimdoin yes but he shouldnt go to the NK in the first place just like 3ER told him

It was actually his destiny to warg into hodor to make him hodor, to save him in that instant.

And the painful "uhmm.."

he has no heartache when killing off his characters. You should have realized that by now. I think many writers rather enjoy giving their characters heart wrenching ends.

Marina Doshkevich well that response wasn't high horsed or condescending at all.

@@marinadoshkevich4863 Actually he said on multiple occasions he doesn't enjoy killing off characters.

I think the pain is more to do with giving D&D that from the novels before he has published it. There's no way the show came up with 'Hold the door all on their own!

Because your Batman!

Because his world is the best to this date

...like it's weird to be fascinated by great stories, characters and great imaginary places. what should we be fascinated about?

Wait aegon wasn't a real person 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱

Because most its ancient hystery

+DoubleO88 Good luck finding anyone who's ready to do thousands of hours of animated material. There's a reason the show strays away and has to cut most of the story lines.

+Rič if I had the skill and the resources I'd do it and include every little detail I could

+DoubleO88 I had this discussion with friends of mine not too long ago.. I mean.. Game of thrones / Ice and Fire went from 1 to a billion since the television show. I mean... once the books and show is finished we will NEVER see the end of game of thrones. I bet we will see another major series in our lifetime for sure.

nypad5 definitely only problem is the western world has a problem with adult orientated animation, everything gotta be for kids. But just like George revolutionized TV by making a adult fantasy series maybe a studio could do the same with animation

DoubleO88 I totally agree.. the first thing that came to mind for me was an anime spin on the series! I would watch that if it looked great ahah.

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Thanks!

Thanks so much for the buttons!!!💗💗💗💗💗💗

Thank you!

you are a god amongst men

Nah, he's just like "hehe, they don't even know what's coming. Just you wait".

He knows the show was going to reveal the answer to that question before he would be able to get the book out.

Paul Davis Your point?

I like to imagine him laughing like that when he’s killing off our favourite characters lmao

@Utube Fknsucks Well, the central conflict certainly is from history. Yorks vs the Lancasters = Starks vs the Lannisters. Many other elements, however, are not. Some examples would be the Faceless Men, the Others, the Werewoods, the Three Eyed Raven.

Jessey Bowman Lmfao that cringe reaction to his answer where she speaks complete jibberish then strokes the back of her neck hahahahahahahahahahahhahahahaahhahaah thank you for time stamping this because I missed that also l.

Stannis Baratheon I wish George would whisper it in my ear.

Deathshuck me too

Deep inside I think you don't. :)

Now think. That ending is gonna die with him.

Stannis Baratheon and the producers of the show

CatAtomic99 Yep

CatAtomic99 considering that drogo was on the pyre with dany and the eggs, it might also be necessary that its kings blood that is sacrificed

derpman909 Yes, and she also burned the witch alive in that same pyre.

WhoIsPine A witch who had worked with Marwin of the Citadel.

Phil Hibbs Well it wasn't shown in the show but in the books she sacrifices her unborn child then has nightmares about the loss. So if you think about Drogo dying, the witch dying, and the child dying, then that is 3 bodies/lives, for 3 dragons.

danny spoon yes we will kidnapp him to finish the books xD

+Anna Lena XXX But he will do that at home too.

But not quick enaugh :`(

Anna Lena XXX I don't think he works better under force or some threat. Kidnapped him once...and this guy loves to eat. You will end poor before you go to jail.

XD you might have a point there :)

I'd be lost without maps period.

George of House Martin. House Words: This is your favourite character? Good to know.

Winter is coming but the Winds aren't

*are coming.

Haha yeah

Lol

Yeah! Or Alt Shift X or Red Team Review!

charlie, carmine or alt shift dont know shit compared to preston. i like em all, but their videos are not even nearly as deep or detailed as prestons... an interview beetween preston and george would be fucking awesome btw :D

+Jack Müller Dude, no one would argue against you on that :)

+Jack Müller Even they would agree wholeheartedly

would of been better if the interviewer never spoke

+Misterr Polo RIP :'(

+karhu metsällä nainen lmao

I just hope it's not a door to the back door of a cave with no front door

It's like The elder scrolls games. Caves with doors

Morra b nj;8

Oh man, GRRM interviewed by CBG19... now that would be an awesome 90 minutes.

I'm guessing that's a youtuber? Ugh.

Prejudiced against youtubers? Ugh.

Fennecbutt A RU-vidr with a great ASOIAF lore series and GOT commentary. Based on the hair she might be Tyroshi.

AnkokuEvangeline CBG19 interviewing GRRM = awesome! How can we fund this? Or make it happen anyhow?

I imagined she had to replace someone at the last minute or something

Even if she read it she would still not have been good because she's not a real fan. She's reading too much of her notes, doesn't seem to know what the visuals are actually about, and not even enthusiastic considering who she's talking to. She's bland as an interviewer. But that's just me. 😁

@@mariesia3449 Yeah she's such a downer, goddamn.

He really is. He’s a very open minded human being, sees all sides of faiths & religions, countries & continents, people & their way of life. He isn’t close minded or biased or shut off in anyway. It’s the opposite of how most people believe in one religion & hate others, or believe in no religion & hates all, or this people hates that people because they come from the North or the South etc. He seems to understand all people and why they do what they do right or wrong, he puts that thinking into his characters. It’s why he has some of the most diverse characters, whether it’s the crazy serial killer, the mother who is just trying to protect her children, or the noble man trying to stay good in a cruel world.

They are not the first, you know.

Alex Wilcox It would be better if those two turned out to be cousins & a more accepted couple even by today’s Westerosi standards.

@@shannond7437 i think it’s even better that they are nephew and aunt, it adds more conflict and more pushback because of their familiar relation.

"it is coming soon, trust me guys. It'll be out by the end of this year"

House Martin: We are not commanded by deadlines.

@@toby1061 house martin: we procastinate

She annoyed me

It's an interview.... she's supposed to get him to talk about it ....

Ya because his stories have a little more practicality. I can tell your strong suit isnt comprehension right?

@Rushabh @PolloLeche wow you guys are salty

Well, not quite. In ASOIAF, young dragons can be killed by weapons as their scales haven't hardened enough yet. But mature dragons can only be killed by a bolt to the eye. That's probably their only vulnerable spot.

Or they can be killed by other dragons or by falling debris or by a really determined mob of Kings Landing small folk…

John Tolkien is the guy. But George comes between the greatest.

No, he wanted to finish his initial thought on the differences between the thrones. The interviewer should have just skipped ahead and then went back. She seemed a bit over her head in this interview, not really a good choice to conduct it...and thats being nice

***** I will heed that advise, thank you. I will probably order the book this week in fact...

Not really, most people never read his books. They all watched a show that is very loosely based on his characters. Tolkiens Book were read by generations before the three movies came out.

“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings; look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!” Great quote. I too loved how he quoted that.

I agree probably one of the few scenes that was great yet not from the source material. I’m wondering how it’ll be presented since Bran & company already are in with the Children of the Forest

Ash It's pronounced either "air-ee" or "ee - ree" George is pronouncing it wrong lol. I mean, I guess he can say it's pronounced differently in his world if he wants to, but it's a real word, and it seems like he's using it in the real world sense given that the eyrie is on a high perch like a bird's nest.

troliolol lol Well I mean, you're talking about a world he created entirely, so whatever he says or however he pronounces things is right. Your point is like telling the parents of a child that the way they pronounce their child's name is wrong because you and other people pronounce it differently. The child's name is pronounced however the parents intended it to be pronounced.

Ash I literally said EXACTLY what you just said in my original post, so I'm not sure why you're repeating it back to me. "I mean, I guess he can say it's pronounced differently in his world if he wants to, but it's a real word, and it seems like he's using it in the real world sense "

troliolol lol You didn't though because thats not what your point says. He is talking about his world being Westeros, that he created. He's pronouncing it his way, which is in fact that correct way no matter how its pronounced otherwise. Whether its a real world or not is irrelevant when we're talking about Georges world. And your point said 'But it's a real word, and it seems like he's using it in the real world sense' which is justifying that its got multiple pronunciations. Hes not talking about real life, hes talking about ASOIAF and so am I and in that world its pronounced however he says it is. The point you made, the way you worded it, does not defend my point, it is in fact against my point. The point I made defends my own so how can it be 'EXACTLY' what you said when you justified it having various pronunciations and I didn't.

Ash mmmkay, I'm not going to waste my time reading that essay or talking to you any more. You're pretty obnoxious.

I would sign the fuck out of that shit

He kinda did at some dinner event, but Martin dodged most of his questions :D

Dennis Reynolds I've never heard the story about the idea behind the wall before and it was one of the most interesting things in this interview.

WTF 7 Well it's been known since before the show was even picked up... Sick of hearing that question and so is Martin, it seems.

Dennis Reynolds Might be known by some, but not well known. And she might have known where he got the idea, but she wanted to ask him so he would open up his creative process to make up an interesting interview in which she partly failed if the question is often repeated as you said. I wonder why they don't get real fans of the book series to interview GRRM.

WTF 7 Cause we would have bias-based question on our own assumptions.

;(

Too soon...

was just thinking that

Yes!!

Glass half full, huh?

Yet he did like one or 2 interviews in October, an all time low I think. So he had time to write.

Fuck off !!! Let him live his life.

What's the problem? Can't understand sarcasm?

You need only look at his "Not a Blog" to see he's done over a handful of interviews this October, undoubtedly taking time to travel and tour for his book sales. It's his life though, no one should be telling him what to do, and usually it's non-writers, trolls and short-minded individuals who point at these excellent interviews crying how he could have spent more time on the books. He can only write when the chapter comes to him, no interview or side-project is going to change his style, and it's produced (in my opinion) five epic tomes so far. That being said, if George keeps producing his tomes on pace with A Dance with Dragons and A Feast for Crows, he'll go from having a legacy as "The American Tolkien" to "The Author who failed his fans and let an epic fantasy saga go Unfinished." I'm sure he realizes this is his Magnum Opus, if I recall correctly he's said it himself in recent interviews. But compassion has to go both ways, George is entitled to live his life, fans are allowed to be upset and worried that, after the seemingly thousand-year-gap between the last books, he won't finish their beloved series.

Lol

i wish i could hold the bran so he wouldnt fuck up everything

Bran will become powerful once he learns to control his power.

How do you fuck up a dragon-rider? you warg into that fucker and wreck shit. Bran inside the body of Drogon = destroys the White Walkers by himself. From the air. From a cave... far away ... chillin' and shit, basically an old god.

+Brandon Nobles ok....that has nothing to do with these comments but alright, how do you know that he can warg into a dragon, maybe nobody can.and you cant really call him an god as gods created something they didnt just have a power to control other beings (if they are good gods, they wouldnt control others but they would give them free will)

I was responding to Bob's comment about how powerful Bran will become. A Dance With Dragons opens with Varymyr Sixskins hunting in a pack, as a warg. And when he hungers after human meat he remembers his father's (Haggon) views about warging, and what he calls "abominations": to eat human meat while in an animal was an abomination, to mate with a wolf while inside a wolf was an abomination, and, lastly, to take over the body of a human was an abomination. He even tries to warg into Thistle but she resists him. Now Bran is not just a warg. There are plenty of wargs, many in his own family. But if it is known of as an abomination to warg into humans, for regular wargs like Varymyr, a greenseer like Bran should be able to warg into people -- and does, as everybody knows he wargs into Hodor - and as powerful as dragons are, it has more to do with intelligence than power. Varymyr wargs into a bear, too. Now, there are horns like Dragonbinder said to be used by the Valryians to bond themselves with their dragons, though it's never suggested that they're wargs. Skinchanging should be the word for it, as warg is more explicit for the direwolves. Dragons are intelligent, sure, and maybe it would be impossible for a regular warg like Arya or Job to warg into another animal, especially a dragon, it shouldn't be beyond reason to think Bran would be able to do much more. He has range over *space and time* through the weirwoods, is thought to be the last greenseer. Many people mistake Bloodraven/the three-eyed crow's visions and apparitions as being those of a God. While I wasn't saying that Bran would be a literal old God, I was suggesting that someone with the power of a greenseer could hypothetically warg into a dragon, and to make short work of the white walker army, Bran in the body of Drogon seems like a pretty good weapon to have. I just thought it was an awesome idea for someone's character arc who is first thought to be a cripple, learns of his ability to warg and use the power of a greenseer, only to overcome his disability by flying -- something he is promised -- in the embodiment of strength and power. Not intending an argument with anyone, just a discussion. Cheers

Lew Lew great, great comment. so true, and explained so simply and perfect. I 100% agree.

Lew Lew no