In case anyone thought the Game of Thrones spinoffs were going to be anything but woke garbage
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HAHAHA they made Corlys Velaryon black! The Velaryons, for those who haven't read the books or looked into the worldbuilding material GRRM has released to date, are a Valyrian family like their inbred overlords the Targaryens; noted for having the same pale skin, silver hair and purple or bluish-purple eyes of that race. It is precisely because of their shared Valyrian ancestry that the Targaryen royals typically married a Velaryon (by now their cousins many times over) when they aren't bedding their own sisters, because as the incest demonstrates, they were a bunch extremely concerned with the purity of their bloodlines - it's also why they only rarely married their heirs to the subject Great Houses of the setting. This particular Velaryon and his family have been consistently depicted with those Valyrian looks in all art and fanart up to this point.
The Velaryon looks are quite seriously a major story element in the Dance of the Dragons (the civil war which this series revolves around), because the crown princess Rhaenyra's first three kids look nothing like her Velaryon husband (who is gay) and a whole lot like her non-Valyrian lover. Their disputed paternity is what opens the way for her half-brother (already legally the heir, but bypassed by a sanction from their father) to challenge her claim to the throne. But I guess storytelling integrity is no match for the power of Current Year diversity, eh?
Fuck you GRRM, not only are you never going to finish your main series, but now you're selling out what little artistic integrity you still have to the woke crowd even though D&D have already crashed the TV side of your franchise with no survivors and so, if anything, only the most hardcore fans of those books you're never gonna complete are going to care to watch this series. Can't believe this guy ever entertained the title of 'American Tolkien'.
Oh god. Don't tell me he actually called himself that. That's an insult to Tolkien more than anything
Quite a few passages from LOTR stand out to me, but one that holds a special place in my heart is this one from ROTK, when a completely exhausted Sam lies down amid the lifeless rocks and ash of Mordor. He's totally beat, pretty much on the verge of collapse, and then...
I can't think of anything Martin or Pullman have written that struck me like those sentences did. Truly it's no wonder crass, cynical materialists and second-rate authors like GRRM and Pullman resent this dude so much and hope to take his place in readers' hearts; they can't make anything quite like what he made, because even this single passage impresses upon us the existence of immaterial things worth fighting for - indeed of greater worth than anything in our fleeting material world - while such things are antithetical to their worldview, and does so with greater grace than both of them combined could hope to have.
Oh, but I can go a level deeper than even that. Who is the lord of Mordor? Sauron. What are Sauron and his boss Morgoth best known for? Besides being archetypical fantasy dark lords, they originally created orcs by mangling and twisting captive elves, tearing every bit of goodness from them until all that's left is ugly cruelty, seething hatred and a total lack of belief in any higher power but the master who rules them. Sauron did this and wages war on the Free Peoples of Middle-earth in the name of imposing rationality and order, Morgoth did it because he's just a destructive spiteful asshat.
And now we have Martin, who thinks he can beat out Tolkien by writing medieval fantasy based on LOTR but 'darker and edgier', meaning hollow, cynical and full of pretenses of being 'realistic' when it's actually uglier than our real Middle Ages; and Pullman, who seeks to attack C. S. Lewis' books about kids having adventures against a fantastic backdrop full of religious allegories by making a fantasy work of his own where God is both evil & impotent, rationality and freedom (as defined by a modern antitheist progressive) are the things to aspire to past the controlling oppression of the church, and the at-best barely pubescent male & female leads are implied to have sex at the end.
Yeah, can't imagine why those two might get assblasted at any comparisons to Sauron, or more generally when their works are compared to the ones they totally didn't rip off & try to 'deconstruct'!