This type of reactions in a social interaction happen when we don't give a fuck but we force ourselves to react to not be seen like we don't give a fuck. It's basic everyone does that. It is clear that this lady has either concentration problem/don't give a damn shit about what G.R.R.M is, saying. Sorry if my english is bad i'm french but i think it's still understandable.
@@Elkaster1 She's on her job, after all. Not everyone likes their job, and those who do, don't necessarily like every person they get to meet during their job. She's on set, doing her job as best she can. That's more than can be said of many people. Give her a break, people.
everyone: "try to avoid giving your characters names that begin with the same letter" GRRM the abosulte madlad: Godrick, Godwyn, Godfrey, Godefroy, Radagon, Rennala, Ranni, Renna, Radahn, Rickard, Marika, Mohg, Morgott, Margit, Malenia, Miquella, Maliketh, Millicent, Melina
This made my attempts to understand the story basically impossible. I could not for the life of me(and still can't) remember who was Godrick and who Godfrey. When the other G's came into the mix I gave up completely. More of less the same with the other letters.
@@josequiles7430 which is why the other 2 words after the name comes in handy, Gordrick the grafted is the first demigod you kill, Godfrey is the first elden lord who appears much later in the video game, Godwyn the golden is the demigod who died in the night of the knives.
@@josequiles7430 just in case you don't wanna read all Dat godrick is a loser who steals people's body parts to get strong and Godfrey is an giant axe welding barbarian who was also a king once and is very strong Godrick is a descendent of Godfrey first elden lord he was the runt of the litter most likely born with birth defects making him weak and insecure which lead to his abuse of grafting, a sort of looked down on magic practice that allows you to graft other peoples body parts onto yourself to make you stronger hes a coward who insulted malenia another demigod and then proceeded to kiss her feet after she put him in his place, he then fled the capitalof leyndell after running of with stolen treasures, godrick is a spineless coward, Godfrey is a warrior barbarian who believes the right to be king is decided by strength and has two sons morgott (I'd you've played the game you probably hate this guy) and mohg both cursed to be omen a sort of birth defect that originally was seen as a blessing but now is looked on as a curse because of a change in religion, he killed the storm king someone of great power and committed a mass genocide on the giants because they had the power to burn the erdtree, he and his warriors were then sent away to get stronger and die then when they are needed they would be revived and tasked with becoming elden lord and killing a god
I'm sure it took him a long time to name them. Now in book 6, a majority of the characters that will be present in the series have already been named, so at least we know that's not what's delaying him I guess?
nasser wiz the difference is making them work with language. remembering who is who and where they are. keeping character traits and everything for each one. not just naming and going but building a whole person.
@nasser wiz He literally said the name influences how he writes about a character. I'm not a GOT fan, but it's clear that he puts a lot of thought into pretty much everything that he writes, which is why he's still writing the series
@@Chowder12345able No he doesn't. He never tried to hide that he conjured up the names for far-off lands either out of his ass or from Lovecraft. He made the wall 700ft tall not realizing how freakishingly and absurdly ginormous it would be until he saw it in the show.
@J K I don't think he found true financial success until GOT and the shows. He can now enjoy the fruits of his long labors and I imagine it's hard to scale back to what it takes to write to the detail he does. I don't think he 'owes' me anything as a fan, but I would just like to enter that world again.
true. my theory is that he wanted to maintain an outward appearance of respect for tyrion because he thought Tyrion would destroy his house, so he tried to make him seem as proper of a lannister as possible and kept his contempt for his son private. in the books especially you realize people are fooled and think Tyrion is as loved and privileged as the rest
Dwarfism manifests later in life , you can never guess if a newborn child will be a dwarf or not , so he couldn't possibly know so he named him Tyrion thinking of him as Jamie -2
Im especially impressed by the Targaryan naming system. Because in history certain Dynasties has occuring themes in their names and for the Targaryan ones there are so many names who all look like they belong together. You have the Aegon, Jaehaerys, Viserys, Deamon, Rheagar, Dearon, Aerys. I fucking love that. Also having characters like Tywinn, Tyrion, Tytos just make sense there were like 20 fucking Louis's of France, if there is one think that nobles like more than waging war on each other its naming their kids after themselves and GoT reflects that perfectly. Every house should have their own flavor of naming to them because it gives character to that house and in extent its members.
The idea of naming your heir after yourself stems from transferring the “good” of your leadership onto their rule. Equally as vain, but not necessarily for the reason of “I love myself so much I’ll name my son the same thing”
like the freys who name every male "walder" hoping that would please 90 year old walder and that they inherit the Twin Towers once the 90 year old dies. lol
@@theforevermachine r u serious kids aren’t going to make fun of someone named Daenerys. It’s the parents that watch the show not the kids. Their too young to understand the show and by the time their all grown up they won’t even know where the name originated from. First of all that’s a dope name and this is a fictional story it’s not like their being named Adolf Hitler ( someone whose taught to have been a evil character in history) stop being a snowflake I would wear that name proud if I was a woman
I feel like GRRM almost went there in a bit where he is like "I'm worried about all these little girls called Daenerys" but then he smoothly goes into "....which is a really hard-to-write name"
Thank you, however I did notice some first men houses dont really fit into that role entirly. House Dustin for example seems more of an Andal name than a First Man one
Those are the facial expressions and gestures of a person who is not listening to a word but wants to look like she is. She just seemed distracted and wanted to look interested.
GREETINGS FELLOW HUMANS. I CAN ALSO LAUGH WITH MY HUMAN MOUTH. HAHAHAHA I'M LAUGHING SO HARD MY HUMAN TAIL IS GETTING CRAMPS. HAHAHA (PSST. HUMANS DON'T HAVE THOSE) NEVERMIND.
now i know why elden ring has names like: melania melina merika morgot margit millicent mohg radagon radahn rykard renna ranni rennalla godrick godfrey if i had a dime every time i confused melina and melania and radahn and radagon...
The comments on this video: 70% About interviewers expressions 24% Claims interviewer is not a lizard person but human 5% Other miscellaneous comments about interviewer 1% about names.
@@Tempusverum You can always work on your self-awareness skills. Filming yourself interacting with others helps a ton, and this is what many actors, comedians etc do when they're starting out
I imagine her eye's blinking sounding like Squidward's walk sound. Also immediately after she laughs, I swear i could hear the Windows XP's closing sound. I'm sure Zuckerburgs sister is a nice person though.
Naming the characters is one of the most significant parts of the writing process. It gives them an identity as potentially real people and not simple assets for the narrative. I understand why George takes so much care in choosing character names, and I wish I had that ability. Instead, I do what he described the other writer was doing, except I use descriptors as placeholders instead of numbers, since they reflect some of their personality better than an arbitrary tag. Among my unnamed characters, I have: Dipshit, Pizza Face, Goth Chick, Goth Gal, Linguist, Sniper, Duke Nukem, MILF, Bastard, Granola, Dirty Dan, Blonde, Child 1, Child 2, Amazon Prime, Dickhead, Fuckboy, Deadpool, Weeb... Makes writing serious scenes a bit more difficult, but speeds up the drafting process and leaves more time for the naming.
@@publiusventidiusbassus1232 I'm named for my grandfather, but one of my uncles is literally a junior of that grandfather, so I'm named for him too. My father is a junior, and he wanted me to be a third. There's literally another person with the same first and last name as me in my own hometown, though he's like 40 years older and we're not related. Given the email address I was assigned in college, I was the 7th person with the same first-last name combo to attend. I've looked it up, and there are over a dozen people who share my whole name, middle included, in the US alone. One Summer as a kid, the place where we took swimming lessons one year had 4 other Richards in my class alone. We all had to go by different variations to differentiate: Richard, Richie, Ricky, Rich, and we used the last name of the last guy. I had never met any of them before that Summer, and I don't think I ever saw any of them ever again after. How many James/Jim/Jimmy's, John/Jon/Jonathan's, William/Will/Bill's, or Joseph/Joe/Joey's are there in the world? I definitely graduated HS with multiples of each of those names. Same with Kelly/Kelley and Kaitlyn/Kaitlin/Caitlin. There were even 2 Siobhans, and I'm in the US, not the UK. It's only realistic for people to share names.
@@tichondriusstormrage The 2nd R in George RR Martin is Richard... Edit: I don't think I was ever notified about your comment... 4 years? Wow I feel old.
At first I was all, "OH MY GOSH THE LAUGH IS SO ANNOYING!" Then I realized she's probably totally fangirling and trying to listen and pay attention but inside her head she's going "OHMYGOSHOHMYGOSH I'M ON THE SAME STAGE AS HIM AND TALKING TO HIM DON'T BE WEIRD ACT NORMAL!" and totally failing at it because she's so nervous and awestruck. Or maybe I'm projecting how I would be if I were sitting chatting to him. IDK.
I like the realistic approach to character naming, I think it not only creates a sense of realism, but it is also a great way of explaining character origins, relations, and history. Like, for example, at the Twins, there's countless descendants of Walder Frey who are al named either Walder or Walda (for girls), because the Freys are all sniveling sycophants trying to earn praise from their lord. Or like how all Ned Starks children are named after men who were important to him and that he loved, Robb after Robert Baratheon, Jon after Jon Arryn, Brandon "Bran" after Brandon Stark, Ned's older brother (in addition to Brandon being a classic Stark name), and Rickon after Rickard, his father. I would be willing to bet that if he had had a couple more sons, there'd be a Benjin/Ben as well as a Howland. Actually, how badass would that be? A Stark named after Howland Reed, "The Howling Direwolf of Winterfell"
@@landofthehazymist in the family tree of starks in the world of ice and fire there is actually a couple of Arya's and Sansa's in the stark family tree. Great grandmother's and great aunt's. That sort of thing. Honestly I'm surprised he didn't name Sansa or Arya Lyanna Stark. Due to how close ned was with his sister.
^ It actually does mean that. Davos was the first in his family to be elevated in his status at all, by Stannis, and in the process of becoming a lord he was able to make his own house. He didn't know what to call it but as he was a smuggler and someone who was worthy of the sea, so to speak, he comes up with the name rather abruptly as I recall it. But no he was POOR growing up, he grew up in one of the worst basically "ghettos" in Westeros. Flea Bottom, in King's Landing. He was only given the title by Stannis after successfully defending one of the Baratheon castles prior to the events of the show but Stannis also took a few knuckles from his as well for his previous acts as a smuggler. As for his Dad though, his Dad was so common I wouldn't be surprised if he doesn't even have a first name. Forget a last one, though. That was all Davos.
I think seaworth was made for him by stannis. I may be wrong but I don't think Davos ever had two names as a smuggler, and after his aid at the siege at storms end Stannis named him a lord and since lords must have two names gave him the name seaworth.
@yung turt You are correct about all of the stuff you said in your first comment. Davos often refers to himself as “Davos of Flea Bottom” because he didn’t have a surname prior to becoming the Onion Knight and Stannis giving him his choice of a surname. He also is nicknamed Davos Halfhand.
Dickon was once a very common name, especially in northern England. "The Secret Garden" was published in 1910 but is still one of the most popular children's stories ever written, and one of the main characters is called Dickon. It's kind of like Richard: people shortened it to Dick, and then Dick became slang for male genitalia, and thenceforth life sucked for all the innocent Richards out there just trying to stay under the radar. Manwoody is still a pretty damn ridiculous to pair with any variation of Dick, though.
When George mentioned the Stark and Lannister naming conventions were proper family customs, it made me wonder why Jaime wasn't the one named Tyrion. With Robb I just explained it away as Ned honoring Robert, since he was born around the end of the rebellion. But I'm not sure why Tywin waited with Tyrion. My guess is he resented the naming convention since his father was so weak, and planned to put an end to it. But he used it on his last son as a punishment for "killing" his mother.
The Ty- thing isn’t super strong in the Lannister family. There’s, Jason, Gerion, Lancel, and Kevan Lannister. Also Jaime was a twin and I don’t think there are female Ty- named Lannisters.
In universe it makes no sense really unless Joanna picked the name ahead of time. But as a 'theme' it shows that Tyrion is actually the most like Tywin.
How to create a name in the ASOIAF universe: when not giving them normal names (Jon, Robert, Brandon, Gregor and so forth) simply take a common name and change two or three letters. Edward = Eddard Circe = Cersei Jamie = Jaime Jeffrey = Joffrey Marcella = Myrcella Thomas = Tommen Kevin = Kevan Peter = Petyr Lance = Lancel Stanley = Stannis Samuel = Samwell Ramsay = Ramsey Margery = Margaery Richard = Rickard, Rickon and Dickon Benjamin (Benji) = Benjen Darius = Daario etc. Is that starting to become obvious? Well, then just throw some randomly exotic names in the mix.
I know it's not professional by any means but if I were speaking with a mind like this I would probably be laughing uncontrollably at anything he says out of nervousness.
Enough's been said about this robot woman, so I won't.... but I will say....this actually WAS a question I've thought about watching the show.....so I was thrilled to hear his answer about that....
It's funny how George is explaining everything and the lady keeps looking at the camera trying to keep a straight face to prevent her face from showing disinterest, she was clearly not caring about the details of what George was talking about and was just trying to get through the interview.
That fake laugh is so distracting and many more things! In the original 1 hour plus video the comment section has been disabled thanks to that laugh!!!
When the cam looks at her or when the mic picks up her voice, that would be me. Just totally enthralled. Such a charmed speaker. As always, bravo George. So down to earth yet so far beyond in terms of success.
"Its a history of Edward and Henry" * Possible humor detected Initiate human emotion sequence 4c * "HA...HA..HA..HA HAAA-" "Everyone names their son Edward or Henry "-AH HA HA HA HAAAAAaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA "WARNING EMOTIONAL SIMULATION AT CRITICAL LEVELS, FAILURE IMMINENT"
At 1:55 "Never give 2 characters in a story names that begin with the same letter." My mind immediately went to "SAURON" and "SARUMAN". In the cartoon version of Lord of the Rings, they dropped the "S" in the latter (making it "Aruman"), so that the audience wouldn't get confused.
George turned that around and was like, "Melina, Marika, Maliketh, Millicent, Malenia, and Morgott. I wanna use all of these, so I'm gonna use all of these!"
“Don’t give characters names that start with the same letter” That would be hard if I use my father’s family as inspiration. All 9 of his siblings start with the same letter.
One of the keys also, which he did as well C.S. Lewis and Brian Jacques is to make character names which you would never hear in real life, but names that still sound plausible and natural. For example, Sansa. That's not a name you would ever hear, or Tyrion, and Tywin, yet throw in something slightly familiar like Margaery etc. That makes the characters even more relatable somehow.
I'm currently writing a novel that I hope will turn into a series of novels. For my names, I simply use a name generator. For character names, I'm using old Celtic names as I feel those kinds of names fit with the vibe of the novel's setting
i write campaigns for d&d and it's super fun to just write a bunch of fantasy sounding names at once and then assigning them later. i usually start off with parts of a word or sound and build off it like one character i have,"cloufrid" is just cloud and fridge
A friend of my mom named her daughter “Khaleesi.” I’m sure by the time she reaches kindergarten she will probably either have people tease her, or she will have people bow before her might. Lol
