George "Rejected Runt" Martin, who is 5'6" (168 cm) tall, writes fiction from the perspective of an envious midget who wants to see the tall fall.
Lord Tyrion Lannister is the youngest child of Lord Tywin Lannister and younger brother of Cersei and Jaime Lannister. A dwarf, he uses his wit and intellect to overcome the prejudice he faces.
Peter Dinklage, born June 11, 1969, Morristown, New Jersey, U.S, American actor who was perhaps best known for his role as Tyrion Lannister, a humane and clever dwarf with a penchant for debauchery, on the HBO television show Game of Thrones (2011–19)
For anyone unfamiliar with the term, a self-insert character is typically defined as the fictional version of yourself that lives out your dreams and fantasies in a novel, short story, or most commonly, fanfiction.
Samwell Tarly is another example: a fat cowardly virgin scholar who rises to the top through the power of plot armor and being a niceguy™.
Varys the fat eunuch is a third. Chinese imperial eunuchs were notoriously petty and self-centered, yet Varys is a rare selfless patriot, despite lacking any children to motivate his concern for posterity. Patriotic self-sacrifice is a masculine trait for the same reason that drunk driving is a masculine trait: testosterone. Something GRR Martin obviously lacks.
Tyrion and Varys Being an Iconic Duo | YouTube
Out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks. JRR Tolkein, a 5'9" Nicolas Cage lookalike, wrote to express the Good, the Beautiful and the True. Tolkein could've written enough orc rape scenes to make Martin envious (and horny). But Tolkein didn't, because rape disgusted him. Tolkein married his childhood true love, who chose him over money, family and religion.
Behold the inspiration for Tinuviel:
Searching photos of GRR Martin's romantic partners yields no comparable inspirations.
GRR Martin's first wife wouldn't follow him to Sante Fe, much less wait through years of no contact and WW1. GRR Martin wrote a dying world poisoned by his sexual perversion and status frustration. Martin's plot tears down all that is noble and fair, ruining the world until at last damaged and desperate beautiful women are within his self-inserts' feeble reach. The constant sexual assault is a symptom of his buried bitterness towards women and the tall men they chose over him. The world must learn to stop overlooking the dwarf!
- George RR Martin is a fucking weirdo | r/MenWritingWomen
- He REALLY likes rape | Vox Populi
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- When A GAME OF THRONES was great | VP
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Martin's fiction thus belongs to the subversive category, and cannot outlive the temporary cultural milieu which it deconstructed, as so many other popular works are overlooked by future generations, to whom his nihilism will be no novelty. He will forever fail to measure up.
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To forestall the inevitable: I am 5'11", and my wife fits under my chin. Tiptoe kisses are cute.
That is just not fair, George RR Martin is not without talent. Yes his sexual frustrations show up in his books but they appear natural and well written. You can see in "Dying of the light" just how sad he is.
Agreed. While I’m annoyed about him wasting so much time and not writing winds of winter I can’t say he isn’t talented. He did set out to subvert Tolkien’s tropes.
Subversion of Tolkien's tropes is exactly why he'll never finish. He would need to embrace the heroic in order to have a satisfying conclusion to his story or continue with his repudiation of heroism and have a very disappointing ending.
Exactly right. In trying to subvert Tolkien, Martin has subverted good storytelling, and it shows in the show's ending. D&D used his notes for that after all, and I 100% believe the absolute nonsense we got like King Bran had to have come from him (were it just left to the terrible two, I think we'd have gotten a lame but network-safe happy ending in the vein of Jon & Daenerys sitting the Iron Throne together to lead Westeros into an age of prosperity - they patently didn't like the magical aspects of the setting and left Bran out of the entirety of Season 5). That said ending was pretty much universally loathed must have really burned his ass, and deservedly so, to the point that he still hasn't published the next book after 11 years.
Frankly I'm at the point where I'd far prefer 'boring' but sensible happy endings over subversive last-minute gotchas that needlessly wreck the setting and subvert my expectations of a good or even OK work. Although I don't think we'll have to worry about that on Gurm's part, he'll release a book all about the intimate details of Rhaenyra's affairs before TWOW and ADOS at the rate he's going.
ASoIaF is an endless series of setups with no payoffs.
Every time I criticized the story people would insist "it's all building up to something!" in spite of all evidence to the contrary. The last season backlash was the realization that I was right all along, with the diehard fans resorting to "the books were adapted wrong / Martin will fix it" cope.
We learn from Martin's writing people will read 6000 pages of rape and descriptions of food as long as you keep fooling them into believing it's leading up to something. You can keep this train rolling forever by just pilling new mysteries onto the old ones. "Audience strip mining" as I call it. You dig a massive pit harvesting your audience's goodwill, then abandon the giant wreck as you abscond with their cash. It's a talent to be sure, but I consider it exploitative. Such is the nature of the market.
The unfortunate thing is Martin not only seemed to burn his own fanbase down but everyone elses' too. Readers and editors are loath to produce or consume more epic fantasy as they become leary of these sleazy writing tricks.
I've honestly enjoyed some of his works that are not related to song of ice and fire. Knowing he will never finish the books put me off from reading other books in the same world but that is not a critique of his talent.
Yeah, I agree. Some of his earlier works, like his science fiction, is really interesting. I reread the first 3 books of GoT multiple times. I've read 4 and 5 a single time each. If he finishes the series, I'll reread it all. If not, I doubt I'll read it again.
Exactly. I like his sci fi and I wanted to give Dunk and Egg or Fire and blood a chance but it really annoys me that he spends time on side projects at the expense of the main series.
There's some evidence his success came when he collaborated with the Expanse author. When he left Martin never achieved the same output or quality, and has merely been coasting on his initial success.
Game of Thrones is a legitimately good tragedy. However Martin has never referred to it as such which makes me believe it was an accident, and he has no concept of the literary theories he treads on. Deconstruction is fine but you have to stick the landing (e.g. the works of Avellone). Martin has ultimately nothing to say other than bitterness and spite.
I don't agree. The books have a normal, non-censored, realistic amount of sex in them. As opposed to Brian Sanderson's stuff which is very asexual.
It's not like the Wheel of Time series which has anime-like levels of blue balls sexual frustration and soft harem shit.
He definitely doesn't have Tolkien's work ethic but he does have real talent.