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Aurain posted:I thought the door Sam and Gilly go through would only open for a man of the Nights Watch or some poo poo because it's magical. Like a weirwood stops you going through unless you repeat your vows. People can see through weirwood poo poo and it's also like a video camera through time, start eating birthday cake hamburgers or whatever the gently caress and get on the authors level.
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Ron Jeremy posted:Weren't orcs magically corrupted elves? I thought in tolkeins world, evil couldn't create, only destroy. So no orc cradles. Well, in the movies, it said Saruman "bred orcs and goblin men" to create the Uruk-hai, although it would be better described as sorcerous creation and not standard heteronormative breeding. Dunno what the books said, this isn't the thread for dead-tree adaptations 
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May 2, 2014 03:12
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Is GRRM more depressed and angry that HBO will finish his life's work fantasy series before him, or that Tamsin Merchant's new TV show is on a network that doesn't allow full frontal nudity?
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May 2, 2014 03:46
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I still wish we'd gotten to keep Tamzin as Dany. She's weird-looking, but at least she's distinctive. Emilia Clarke is pretty in the blandest way possible.
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May 2, 2014 03:53
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Nevar disparrage my Kleese, m'lady! Also, at least Tolkien had the decency to contain all his sperging in a side book that people weren't actually supposed to read.
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lemonadesweetheart posted:Tolkien was pretty inconsistent on this stuff because it really doesn't loving matter for the story he was telling. The fact that GRRM spends days, months and possibly years sperging over dumb poo poo like this is why this is called the bad thread and not the wow that was a good trilogy thread. Tolkien kept reworking every bit of the lore up to his death, and was apparently quite worried at the moral dilemma he had created with the Orcs. He didn't actually find a solution before he died. 
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May 2, 2014 05:49
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SaviourX posted:I missed it earlier, but here's the Rolling Stone interview with Grum, which is actually pretty decent. He says maybe its all the fans fault that he writes so slow. 
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SaviourX posted:(or is it that we have a touch of the George? is he in us or us in him?). We may be the abyss that stares back.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:We may be the abyss that stares back. The Bad Thread is goatse
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Rosscifer posted:He says maybe its all the fans fault that he writes so slow. I found that snippet quite hilarious. You are worried more people are going to read the books so you are going to go slower to make sure it is perfect? Isn't that what happened with Dance of Dragons? And look at what a royal Khaleesi turd that turned out to be. Yeah take your time, George...
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Please put any mentions of moral dilemma's involving orcs behind spoiler tags please, my eyes just rolled so hard I think I sprained them. I am at the doctors office right now.
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May 2, 2014 16:53
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Rosscifer posted:He says maybe its all the fans fault that he writes so slow. Reading his interviews and his work, reminds me of Prince of Nothing.. "THEY MAKE US LOVE!"
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May 2, 2014 23:48
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10 hours for an interview and it ended up sucking? Let no man question whether this is truly part of the ASOIAF canon.
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May 2, 2014 23:51
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MonsieurChoc posted:Tolkien kept reworking every bit of the lore up to his death, and was apparently quite worried at the moral dilemma he had created with the Orcs. He didn't actually find a solution before he died. I actually enjoy reading JRRT's drafts. It's really spiffy seeing how far apart the original versions were compared to the last editions. No way in hell would I ever dream of reading GURM's drafts.
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Fog Tripper posted:I actually enjoy reading JRRT's drafts. It's really spiffy seeing how far apart the original versions were compared to the last editions. No way in hell would I ever dream of reading GURM's drafts. I'd read em, I'd just have to find a thirty year old computer first.
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You're already reading his drafts.
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Better than smelling his drafts
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Shoehead posted:Better than smelling his drafts Winds are words.
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You laugh, but GRRM is actually one of the few persons on earth capable of typing with farts. Incidentally, that is how all Dany scenes happened
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I couldn't handle reading tolkien's drafts, or finished works. zzz i'd rather boot up the apple 2e and read gurm's
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What would you let Gurm do to your body, if you'd get to read a new GoT book?
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May 3, 2014 16:11
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Nothing. gently caress that guy, I'll wait!
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Shoehead posted:I'd gently caress that guy, I'll wait for nothing!
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Hogge Wild posted:What would you let Gurm do to your body, if you'd get to read a new GoT book? Nothing. At this point, I'm sure the show will do a better job of finishing the story.
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Hogge Wild posted:What would you let Gurm do to your body, if you'd get to read a new GoT book? I would let him punch me in the stomach as hard as he can, but then I would hop out of the way at the last second so he miss and say your punches are like your writing old man; tooo slowwww!
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Jeffrey posted:I couldn't handle reading tolkien's drafts, or finished works. zzz Yeah, I hate beautiful works on literary art by possibly one of the best storytellers and talented linguists that ever lived who crafted every sentence in his epic stories to perfection as well. So boring, so 20th century.
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Hogge Wild posted:What would you let Gurm do to your body, if you'd get to read a new GoT book? I'll let my fist slam into his dick if he lets the show writers and Brandon Sanderson finish the series. Actually I'd let that happen regardless, but if the ideal end result of the series was a perk that'd be cool.
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IRQ posted:I'll let my fist slam into his dick if he lets the show writers and Brandon Sanderson finish the series. OhYeah posted:Yeah, I hate beautiful works on literary art by possibly one of the best storytellers and talented linguists that ever lived who crafted every sentence in his epic stories to perfection as well. So boring, so 20th century.
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OhYeah posted:Yeah, I hate beautiful works on literary art by possibly one of the best storytellers and talented linguists that ever lived who crafted every sentence in his epic stories to perfection as well. So boring, so 20th century. Easy there champ nobody said anything about hate.
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Mother gently caress that Mormon blandist fuckin Sanderson, and that goony gently caress Rohtfuss while we're at it, fantasy authors are all poo poo, period, end of story, Jeeeesus.quote:who crafted every sentence in his epic stories to perfection as well. The British Tolkien posted:Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow,
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I've said it before, but Sanderson is a good structural or conceptual writer. The Mistborn stuff has a lot of really solid and thought-out things going on. But his weakness is characters, and unfortunately ASoIaF's strength is characters. It's a pretty poorly thought-out series, but it's brimming with great characters. Sanderson would actually be a really loving awful writer to helm this series, unless you paired him with someone who was a good character writer. Maybe BranSan should just pair up with the GRRM himself to get this poo poo out the door.
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Sanderson would actually be a really loving awful writer to helm this series, unless you paired him with someone who was a good character writer. Maybe BranSan should just pair up with the GRRM himself to get this poo poo out the door. There's also the fact that he's stated that he stopped reading the series after the first book due to it being too dark for his tastes.
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thark posted:There's also the fact that he's stated that he stopped reading the series after the first book due to it being too dark for his tastes.
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thark posted:There's also the fact that he's stated that he stopped reading the series after the first book due to it being too dark for his tastes. But there's only like one Summer Islander in the whole first book 
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He heard about the Dornish coming up and welp,
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Isn't Brandon Sanderson the hardcore Mormon who (rightly so) caught a bunch of poo poo for being vocally against marriage equality?
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alg posted:Isn't Brandon Sanderson the hardcore Mormon who (rightly so) caught a bunch of poo poo for being vocally against marriage equality? You may be thinking of Orson Scott Card, although I would not rule out the possibility that there are two rabidly homophobic fantasy authors running around out there.
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Kylaer posted:But there's only like one Summer Islander in the whole first book One drop rule.
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Aston posted:You may be thinking of Orson Scott Card, although I would not rule out the possibility that there are two rabidly homophobic fantasy authors running around out there. Nah Sanderson wrote a whole thing about it too, though it was as accepting and gentlemanly as is probably possible for someone with his religious views to be. Which really wasn't very accepting at all. Edit: Also Sanderson wouldn't be down with writing any of the myrish swamp or fat pink mast stuff, and if that poo poo isn't in there, really what's the point?
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Sanderson would actually be a really loving awful writer to helm this series /agree I'd want Bakker or Abercrombie to do it. Bakker knows the value of a good raping, and is dark enough. but he definitely rambles on the philosophy. Abercrombie does characters well, knows how to make them morally ambiguous, and can kill them off. I doubt he could write about food though. or sex. I dunno those are the only writers I have read lately.
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