And little did we know that the inspiration for the terrifying white walkers was just wandering drunk Scotsmen

When he says he had the wall all to himself, that's basically him admitting that he pissed off it like Tyrion did.

great interviewer, no interrupts just lettimg the man speak his own smooth way

Damn I wish this dude was my uncle or Grandpa or something. Imagine growing up with GRRM as a relative.

The way he talks about visiting the wall with his friend and thinking about the Roman soldier, you can hear his natural story telling ability flowing out, it's amazing. I was really taking in what he was saying and getting into it like a proper story.

This reminds me of a joke, that the Romans conquered the whole known world then got to Scotland and built a wall.

The Hadrian wall is super impressive. It forced every invader to put a hand on it and hop over it. Such a great accomplishment.

The wall is his single most fascinating invention in ASOIAF. What lies beyond? Why is it needed? Who built such a massive structure? Just gets your mind going instantly... No wonder GOT was such an instant success from the pilot onwards

There’s so much power behind the way he pronounces “wall”.

The Wall was actually built on a set just north of Belfast, northern Ireland. I drove past the set on a tour, wasn't a GoT tour or anything, the driver just pointed it out while we were driving. I guess they've dismantled it now like they did with our hopes and dreams for season 8 but still was preety cool to catch a glimpse of it while it was up..

I'd like to see a video game set in Westeros/Essos but they'd have to do it RIGHT. Walking up to the wall would look class

Even the way he answers sounds like a book. All well narrated and you can actually picture what it was like just like his books

GOT is mostly British history and influence with magical and fictional additions

I used to live in Newcastle and would often drive up to the wall. It's beautiful up there, especially when it's quiet. Can imagine how a place could inspire the such a place as the ice wall.

Got to love the irony of a (now) three foot wall inspiring a seven hundred foot wall of ice.

He was having a chat with his buddy Donald one night after a few too many beers. "We'll build a wall! And we'll make the Others pay for it!"

The Romans also built the Antonine Wall, made of earth, beyond Hadrian's Wall at the narrowest point in Scotland during the reign of Hadrian's successor Antoninus Pius, and several forts beyond that in the Scottish Highlands. But they couldn't hold any of those fortifications for very long and soon retreated back to Hadrian's Wall.

Eventually the white walkers will pay for that wall.

Build a wall and make the Wildlings pay for it.

"This is really big, and really impressive." SHE'S TALKING ABOUT THE WALL.

I love grrm video content sections. they're so witty and funny.

That day... Humanity remembered

All in all, it's just another ice cube in The Wall, though...

“I’m a fucking genius, that’s how.” *anytime someone asks RR how he came up with something

Wonderful story. Wonderful man.

0:48 Lisa Tulla sounds a lot like Lysa Tully

Ive got another great idea. what if we put a hole in the wall and put glass in it. I call it "the window"

I was so overwhelmed by it's sheer immensity, I had to pop myself a beer.

I’m proud of myself for knowing it was hadrians wall for the inspiration. It makes a lot of sense. Cool that he actually saw it though

Make Westeros Great Again!

my dad made a good point about the wall: if its 700 feet tall then why are the mountains behind and around it not towering over it? Wouldn't you be able to see far beyond the wall if you stood high near the peaks of the mountain range to the south west of it? Realistically the mountains would be a lot taller than 700 feet.

Considering they filmed a large amount in northern ireland it's surprising that they didn't film any footage at the cliffs of moher down south

Antonine wall is the most northerly wall of the Roman Empire, the Picts (natives of Scotland) kept attacking the wall so they retreated back to Hadrians wall after 8 years (but some also say they retreated because empire antonine died). There is a lot more forts along Antonine wall and evidence of mine pits as they used forts along the wall to fend off the Picts (natives of Scotland), you can visit the forts today and see where the wall is built. Antonine wall in just above the latitude of Glasgow and Edinburgh so a great distance north from Hadrian's wall.

0:24 - 0:26 *Don't say it, please don't say it. "THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID"

Keep building the wall!

I liked how the interviewer injected the pragmatic issue of melting when he was waxing comedic about a would be tourist attraction. Now he must realize his folly, thanks yo her

God I love this man so much! In this interview, he is literally watching the sunset atop Hadrian's Wall as he speaks to the interviewer, who is there, on the wall with him.

GRRM: Hadrian’s wall inspired me. China: Am I a joke to you?

I will wait

I’ve loved this song ever since it was released, it was totally different to anything else around. I still love it, but have you heard the Tori Amos version? It’s kept a lot of what 10cc created but added a whole new sinister world to it. Give it a listen, you may be surprised.

You want me on that wall, you need me on that wall!

His wall had magic and it still got broken down 😩

If anyone wants to ride the real lift along the wall, you can. Late 70s, Martin lived in Dubuque Iowa and taught at Clarke College here. We have an elevator along a bluff that was an inspiration for the left along the wall. Dubuque | George R.R. Martin

"We're going to build a wall and make the wildlings pay for it!"

0:25 i cant be the only one thinking what im thinking

Attack on Titans with GoT easter egg would be cool lol

I wonder if there was also a little bit of the Wall of Nessus from "The Book of the News Sun", by Gene Wolfe...an amazing set of books.

The one thing I am proud of being scottish for is our defiance and the repelling of roman conquerers I'm not a patriot, in any way, but it is a noble bit of history I enjoy to tie myself to

I bet Joffrey got the Wildlings to pay for the Wall XD

We are not wildlings, we are the free folk!!

Those Scotts are just like Wildlings

Love grrm genius

Some trouble keeping it from melting? Here? No, we'd have the trouble if we wanted it to melt.

I knew it!!!!!!!!!!!

By the time of Hadrian's wall there were Germanic & Gaul & celt roman soldiers by then too

These ads are getting ridiculous. 1 before the video, some in the middle, then another at the very end

FIRE AND BLOOD!!

I would make a big wall and I would pay for it - Bran the builder probably

I always wanted to know that.

Not sure the interviewer knew he was joking about Scotland building an Ice Wall... "might have trouble stopping it from melting"

some of these comments, why there's always have to be an alternative suggestion., why not China's wall, why not Berlin wall....its a source of his inspiration, sometimes seeing it, traveling to it, experiencing it, mAke it stick to your head than a picture youve just seen....Ive only been to Boston once, for 4 days. but the experience stuck to me, after more than a decade is still strong, compared to the Grand Canyon, which Ive seen numerous times but only in pictures...how do you make a story out of that...

It's made of ice and it is kind of cool.

Guillermo del Toro's Doppelganger.

Walls do work. Sure, some raiding parties might get through but it will stop the Mance Rayder's army.

This is really big, and really impressive. -That's literally what she said

Audio... should be audible...

I live near hadrians wall

Gogg and maggog

When we do become independent I want George to come over and be our first president and build that wall.

Mr Martin bring down this Wall

0:24 that's what she said

The sound (volume) is very low.

the wall is genius

He travelled forward in time and saw Attack on Titan.

Need 2 build wall

BUILD THAT WAL.. oh shit wrong video

I like the idea that the built the wall without knowing the White Walkers or giants existed yet but they just had a bad vibe. 😄

watch a video of GRRM, get an ad of GoT Conquest, thanks youtube very cool

An don't forget England's 'wars of the roses' !

Best way to write good fiction is to study history

Newcastle is Winterfell confirmed

Is more of this interview posted somewhere?

"Lets build two walls. One in fiction, one in the real world."

You know the weird thing about the wall in the North. The wildlings pay for it, in someways

Good he wrote this in the nineties.. if he had written this after 2000 donald trump would have claimed this was his idea.

Bran the Builder, inventor of pykrete.

*W A L L*

Artic Circle

Hadrian's Wall + Great Wall Of China + French Foreign Legion?

That’s some IceWing sh1t

This sounds similar to the black gate, which is operated by rangers who defended it against the evils of Mordor. At least I think so... Don't attack if I'm wrong. please.

3:04 lol,pun (un)intended ?

Maria, rose ,sina...

How many feet is it?

and we’re gonna make the wildlings pay for it

A frozen wall? Is he sure that he didn't use some of my past dates as an inspiration?

It's a wall..

I can't hear anything.

0:24 😏

Thought it would be due to Hadrian's