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A quote from GRRM's Fire & Blood: "Once, in the halls of the Red Keep, Daella had encountered a prince from the Summer Isles in his feathered cloak, and squealed in terror. His black skin had made her take him for a demon."

posted 2 years ago by ukulele 2 years ago by ukulele +42 / -0

But why should anybody care about the written material?

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– Smith1980 7 points 2 years ago +7 / -0

I heard he wanted to subvert Tolkien. Looking back on the Ice and Fire books it definitely subverts certain tropes and themes of Tolkien

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– joeyjojoshabadoo1 9 points 2 years ago +9 / -0

Tolkein's works elevate, celebrate, and romanticize virtues such as dignity, stoicism, humility, loyalty, honor, self-restraint, duty, yearning, and self-sacrifice.

GRRM's only bring these concepts up to have them fail in the face of unrelenting human ugliness. The entirety of the GoT cycle is pigs fucking in the mud.

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– Smith1980 2 points 2 years ago +2 / -0

Like killing off Ned Stark. I will admit that shocked me

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