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
- The grimy pessimism of George RR Martin | VP
- Mailvox: GRR Martin and the Left | VP
- George Martin baits the hook | VP
- When A GAME OF THRONES was great | VP
- Theories of collapse | VP
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.
- Bookman list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1890s | Wikipedia
- Mailvox: illumination and shadow | Vox Populi
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To forestall the inevitable: I am 5'11", and my wife fits under my chin. Tiptoe kisses are cute.
GRRM has been writing for 50 years. He's won Hugos, Nebulas, Locus awards, etc. He's had NY Times bestsellers. He's had his works turned into very popular (at least at first!) TV shows.
That's your definition of no talent?
On a personal level he has donated and invested his money in a number of businesses--Meow Wolf (which is crazy awesome), an active locomotive museum, a historic movie theater, etc. That kind of positive local economic activity is a big deal.
Martin learned to write cliffhangers and churn drama from soap operas. Throw in endless puerility and shock and you get GoT.
His work is successful for the same reason horror films and porno are successful. We all understand that exploiting the Id is an easy way to make a buck but that makes him a lowbrow, b-movie hack at best.
He did work on Twilight Zone and Beauty and the Beast (with Linda Hamilton), but he was writing long before that. I would argue that he learned more from comics. But that's kind of neither here nor there.
Have you read the books? They are very different from the HBO show, and the show is far more salacious. Puerility? Not too much of that. Shock? Yes, there were some shocking scenes, but those were more shocking for what happened rather than being pornographic. I'd say what was shocking more than anything was that in the vast majority of fantasy novels, main characters don't die. If they do die, their character arc was clearly leading there.
I have read the books and didn't find the show meaningfully different, other than the books have vastly more pages devoted to food (which is just another indulgence--gluttony). The show did leave out the pointless, over-the-top pornographic lesbo subplot with Circe.
I came to my conclusion about the story before a single minute of footage was shot: "Enjoy the first season as a tragedy but don't expect much in the long run, Martin has no plan and is just churning drama for shock value and porn."
Sorry but "the show ruined the perfect books" is a fanboy cope.