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FREE! interview George RR Martin
FREE! Magazine (Finnish culture… in English) recently interviewed the man who dances with dragons, George RR Martin. It was very interesting; a pleasantly different questions and answers session covering A Song of Ice and Fire, Martin’s time in Hollywood and his interest in Scandinavian culture. Plus much more…
Below are two questions taken from the interview; something that fans A Song of Ice and Fire fans will find of interest:
For me, and I suppose that for most of the readers, it was really shocking when Eddard Stark got killed in the first book of the Ice & Fire saga. For example nobody would ever expect Frodo getting killed at the beginning of Lord of the Rings. Did you want to break concepts and mark a new line with that conception, did you know from the beginning that it would happen?
Oh yeah. Well, you kill an important character right on and you kind of establish that you are not playing for kids, you know, that it is not going to be that kind of fantasy where the hero goes through all kind of dangers and never gets scratches.
From the characters of The Song of Ice & Fire, is there any that you would feel especially identified with?
Tyrion Lannister. He has always been one of my favorite characters. They all have parts of me but Tyrion has changed together with me more than any other of the characters.
To read this interview in full, visit http://www.freemagazine.fi/content/view/989/154/
In 1996, George RR Martin began work on “A Song of Ice and Fire”, a series of books inspired by the War of the Roses (a series of civil wars fought between the House of York and the House of Lancaster for the English throne in the 15th century). The fourth book; “A Feast of Crows” became The New York Times No.1 bestseller.
Posted: August 1st, 2009
Author: Lee
Categories: George RR Martin
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