kittoo
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Yeah. From LS's perspective, Brienne seems guilty as all hell.
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Yeah. From LS's perspective, Brienne seems guilty as all hell.
The Silmarillion series. Do it, HBO.
Why does the map look like that?
The World of Ice and fire shows this:
I'm going to pretend the continent that tails off to the far right of the map leads out into Middle Earth.
after the tone of GOT and I'm not sure i want HBO to debase tolkien
Lionheart1827
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Man looking at that map brings me back to when I was a kid looking at SNES RPG world maps. I hope the ASOIAF world doesn't end when GoT/books end since I'd like to explore other regions. Like I want to see what Ulthos is all about, or the Dry Deep.
Dash_Riprock
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Can someone do the math for me regarding that map:
Is Westeros is the size of South America, than how fuckin's big is Essos?
And how much space is left if the planet they're on is the same size as Earth?
Is Westeros is the size of South America, than how fuckin's big is Essos?
And how much space is left if the planet they're on is the same size as Earth?
A Human Becoming
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Didn't he or somewhere in the books say the Wall is 300 miles long?GRR's maps don't tell what kind of projection they're doing so who can say how big *anything* is?
Essos is the size of Asia.
Also GRRM confirmed that Planetos is a little bigger than our Earth
It would cost more but probably be easier to adapt than ASoIaF.
Veritigo_X
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GRR's maps don't tell what kind of projection they're doing so who can say how big *anything* is?
Also is Planetos even a spheroid planet orbiting a sun in space? Or some crazy shit.
Doesn't seem like GRRM has really figured out distances, but he's given vague answers about the world. He's said it's round and larger than Earth.
http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Category/C91/P60
But this is from 2002, so who knows what's changed since then.
Well HBO needs tits in every episode until the show can find its legs.
Do you really want to see Luthien flashing her tits at us every so often?
Tolkien would roll in his grave
tiredheadcrab
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Is there a continent west of Westeros? Or is it just water between Westeros and the continent Danny is on?
Freshmaker
I am Korean.
Nah. Drizzit is a match.
Red Arremer
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Nobody knows.
Have they ever said in the books actually? Can't remember
Looks like they havent
It's unknown
lol.
I'd be down for a Drizz't show just because of the amazing fight scenes they'd have to have.
Veritigo_X
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That isn't known, at least by people in Westeros. At the Kingsmoot one of the candidates promised to lead the Ironborn west to discover new lands.
bodyofanamerican
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In rewatching this week's episode, I think one thing the show has accomplished for me that I didn't think they would, is that they've really gotten me to like Tormund a lot. I was initially really disappointed that we didn't have "HAR!" Tormund from the books, but thinking about where we started with this character in S2 to where we are now, i'm 100% sold on him.
Yeah it kinda sucks, I wanna see Asshai and Yi Ti and even Sothoryos.... but with only 2 books left it's time for the story to get moving
I think the show is a bad adaptation but there's several things I do love. Tormund is one of them.
Although ideally I would have liked it if they made the show's version of Tormund into book Tormund's son and have book Tormund in the show. I'd like an actual father-son duo with a good relationship for once
Our only hope is that Show Jorah searches for a cure in Asshai. That would be incredible to see.
Ok but what latitude is it at? Where even is the equator? And what projection drew the map?
I'm not sure why this even matters.
But just use the Wall being 300 miles as your reference and go off that.
And I remember someone measuring Westeros and saying that's it actually a little smaller than South America.
You know how Greenland looks effing enormous on maps in classrooms?
But sure, this doesn't actually matter in the sense that GRR to some extent and D&D to a great extent don't actually care that much about distances. But it's true that we don't know very basic things about the planet (like even what direction its axis of rotation points relative to the plane of its orbit). And I suspect those maps were probably drawn without a projection in mind at all.
But sure, this doesn't actually matter in the sense that GRR to some extent and D&D to a great extent don't actually care that much about distances. But it's true that we don't know very basic things about the planet (like even what direction its axis of rotation points relative to the plane of its orbit). And I suspect those maps were probably drawn without a projection in mind at all.
Actually a fantasy cartographer was charged with making the maps to make sure everything made sense and when he started putting in latitudes and longitudes, GRRM made him take it out because he didn't want people to think this map was more accurate than it was supposed to be.
It's only an interpretation of the world by the maesters
This is a clever way for Martin to hand wave a lot of the history and map design of his world. Makes a lot of sense to have in-universe characters design these things if you're not super confident about creating the nuts and bolts of a world yourself.
One of his themes is also the fallibility of history so it ties right into that.
Admiral Woofington
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At the same time they passed on American Gods and Monster, two shows that I hope they regret not doing forever.
SargerusBR
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I will never stop dreaming about a HBO Witcher series.
wesleyshark
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ditto lol
Emerson
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Tolkien would roll in his grave about anything ever made based on his books.
Why? I thought the LotR movies were well received.
Tolkien's son hates the movies.
Tolkien might have too because of some of the things they omit like the Scouring of the Shire.
Although he would've appreciated some things like Christopher Lee playing Saruman who was his choice for Gandalf
bitbydeath
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The show does a lot more right than you give it credit for especially compared to other adaptions.
Even the story is adapted a whole lot better over something like The Walking Dead which is around 70% filler vs the comics.
Cesare Borgia
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Wait, what?
Piss tastes better than shit but that does not mean piss tastes good.
The show has a very Walking Dead view of the world.
I love Harry Potter.
I genuinely like discussing the show.
There's a book thread and there's a show thread with book spoilers. I'll talk about the show in the latter.
DAKINGINDANORF
Last two seasons of The Walking Dead were actually mostly very good. The character work, atmosphere, and pacing in S5 especially are far stronger than the last two seasons of GoT. They don't always explicitly need to tell the audience everything that's happening, they have more faith in them than that, which is refreshing.
Emerson
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Everything we know about Tolkien says he'd have hated them just as much or more than his son does. He was an absolute purist and was unwilling to deal with adaptation.
Most of his stuff is speculation, and when it's not, we're not supposed to talk about it.
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