‘Ice and fire song’ has its own rules. His fantasy is not like ‘Harry Potter’, ‘Dragonlance’ or ‘The Lord of the Rings’, although George Rr Martin did learn some lessons of Tolkien’s work. The writer took elements of this classic And he assimilated them for his novels, as collected by the Winter Is Coming website.
“when I started writing ‘Game of Thrones’, one of the things I did was to look at ‘The Lord of the Rings’ to see what Tolkien did and to learn some lessons,” he said. “A great lesson was its management of magic. I think that in epic fantasy there is too much magicbut Middle -earth is impregnated with a feeling of magic. It is always on the periphery and is used to prepare the stage. Gandalf is a magician, but when the orcs attack a sword and fight against them. It does not disappear magically as it happens in many other stories. ”
The narrative structure of ‘Game of Thrones’ has much of ‘The Lord of the Rings’
Martin also noticed the structure of ‘The Lord of the Rings’, a story that begins in the region and is expandinglike the ring itself. “Then, later, they separate into two groups. If you look, in ‘Game of Thrones’ all except Dany start in Winterfell,” although then things that separate them occur.
Another of the coincidences between ‘Game of Thrones’ and ‘The Lord of the Rings’ is that Both universes have their own languagesWhile Martin recognizes a fundamental difference: “He invented complete languages, I simply made him lie. When I sold ‘Game of Thrones to HBO they asked me:’ There are whole scenes in Dothraki, can you send us your book of Dothraki of syntax and rules [gramaticales]? ‘ Tolkien would have responded quickly, while I had to say that I invented eight words. “
George Rr Martin continues to work in the penultimate novel of ‘Ice and Fire Song’, but ‘Winter winds’ It will still be begged. It has been delayed for more than 13 years and does not seem that its publication date is near.
Meanwhile, HBO will premiere this year ‘The Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’a new spin-off of ‘Game of Thrones’. They have also started shooting the third season of ‘The Dragon House’.
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