30-03-2013, 04:16 PM
ΕίΑυτό είναι ένα απόσπασμα από μια συνέντευξη που έδωσε ο GRRM, είναι στα αγγλικά και κατά την γνώμη μου θίγεται ένα ενδιαφέρον ζήτημα, ο συγγραφέας και η εποχή του. Και οι δύο χρημοποιούν αρχέτυπα, απλώς στις ιστορίες τους παρουσιάζονται διαφορετικά. Η Jon\'s Spearwife π.χ. ανέφερε τις ομοιότητες μεταξύ Numenor-Valyria, και τα δύο είναι αναφορά σε \"χαμενες \" ηπείρους, όπως η Ατλαντίδα.
Quote:I read Tolkien when I was twelve or so and he impressed me a lot so I don’t get tired of rereading it. In fact, I planned to send a letter to Mr. Tolkien when I was a child, but I finally didn’t, thing for which I am a little bit annoyed, more after getting noticed that Tolkien use to read almost every letter he received. But Tolkien wasn’t a direct influence to me when I decided to write A Song of Ice and Fire although my books are in the fantasy canon that Tolkien improved. I mean, fantasy is very ancient. We can find it in the Iliad or in the Gilgamesh Poem, but Tolkien turned it into a modern genre, and A Song of Ice and Fire shares some of these patterns but not all of them. For example, I pretend to offer a dirty fantasy, more raw than Tolkien’s.
He was sick of it, sick of lords and lies, sick of his father, his sister, sick of the whole bloody business.