George RR Martin on the Inspiration for Casterly Rock

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@meurer13daniel 4 жыл бұрын

- Is it risky to kill three side characters in the beginning of your medieval story? - I don't know, that's why I killed the main character in the end of the same book

@grahamjones3259 4 жыл бұрын

What’s great about George is that he is generous with his experience as a writer. Some writers don’t always come forward with how to get started in literature, but George is so positive about what you can do to get a start. That’s invaluable to any young author who may have talent, but has no idea where to start in the industry.

@marianoyalour 4 жыл бұрын

There's always that one dude asking "Hodor?". And he replies the same every time 😂

@Erox006 3 жыл бұрын

You can tell he's sick of it ...

@Jennifer-di4nl 3 жыл бұрын

Love how George didn't even crack a smile

@brianthegreat5994 Жыл бұрын

@@Jennifer-di4nl he does smile though

@sabrinalecrivainmediaTM Жыл бұрын

He loves it!

@Charlie-qc6su 2 жыл бұрын

I love how genuine his answers are.

@there6799 4 жыл бұрын

He did not seem to like the Hodor joke

@KodakKid33 4 жыл бұрын

I'm sure he's heard it a bunch of times, and it's the kind of joke that's not even funny the first time around

@there6799 4 жыл бұрын

Richard Gibson I wanted a more dramatic reason, such as he is so invested in his characters to the degree that he does not like it when they are put in a joke, but probably you are right.

@heavysaber9431 4 жыл бұрын

@@there6799 I think he's more annoyed because every interview there's always that one guy who asks that question

@evn2787 4 жыл бұрын

its became one of those weird things even before the series people came up to him and said Hodor so he is really used to it by now

@MrLee-cy1pw 4 жыл бұрын

He's such an insightful person.

@gerard.bailey 4 жыл бұрын

That "Hodor?" hits different these days

@AmethystEmpressDivineTarot6589 4 жыл бұрын

😭

@Erox006 3 жыл бұрын

You can tell he's sick of it ...

@EnvisionerWill 3 жыл бұрын

That awkward moment when Aegon uploads a ten-minute video whose title topic is over by 1:30....

@Viroh 3 жыл бұрын

@mubarakusman9184 Жыл бұрын

I learn something every time I watch a GRRM interview. Such a treasure

@tulkas42o22 4 жыл бұрын

I think the hodor guy asks the same question at alot of grrms appearances. Ive heard his voice many times in a lot of q&a videos. Grrm is probably so done with that dude. What started out as cute turned into something horrible

@nomoremaybes 4 жыл бұрын

so cringy

@spodergibbs5088 2 жыл бұрын

I like it. I think it’s a little joke they keep going with.

@post-leftluddite 4 жыл бұрын

The person asking that question is from the History of Westeros Podcast/KZfaq channel

@foleylione 3 жыл бұрын

George was not done talking about his dnd group and I’m wasn’t done hearing about it.

@illiteratethug3305 3 жыл бұрын

This guy is the best history teacher you never had. When an American writer can get British kids interested in British history, he's got talent pouring out of him

@PeterParker-yg6fc 3 жыл бұрын

they aren't british...

@johnr797 3 жыл бұрын

@@PeterParker-yg6fc did you watch the video? Even without that it's common knowledge asoiaf is based on the war of the roses

@aesir1ases64 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah but George himself said he was a fan of popular history not academic history.

@sanjitter 4 жыл бұрын

George is candid.

@demon13doc 4 жыл бұрын

Dude is a saint for answering these dumbass questions with seriousness and class

@thereccher8746 4 жыл бұрын

Okay boomer.

@gigantomastiaCuddler Жыл бұрын

@@thereccher8746 Okay Canadian.

@thereccher8746 Жыл бұрын

@@gigantomastiaCuddler Okay racist.

@amandavasi1448 Жыл бұрын

There is nothing dumb ass about these questions at all!!!

@lateffcaffie9623 4 жыл бұрын

Ashaya and Aziz from History of Westeros!!! I geeked out a little bit when I heard their voice. hahaha I love their channel!

@post-leftluddite 4 жыл бұрын

Same here

@Dtown3 4 жыл бұрын

Show Casterly Rock, if done as described in the books, would absolutely need some sort of lever system. Some mechanism like the Wall to elevate people. 3X the height and only steps? yikes. I think if they'd made the castle in the show on a cliff even 400-500ft it would've done justice

@theophrastusbombastus1359 3 жыл бұрын

The castle isn't on the cliff top its at the base of the Rock. What passes for a castle is a curtain wall, brief courtyard and guard tower. The real fortification is the Rock itself. Even if the outer "castle" falls the fight for the internal tunnels would be Thermopylae to the power of a googol A very small number could hold back a very large number for a very long time. Thus, nobody has ever done so

@bloodaonadeline8346 Жыл бұрын

ok that makes sense I thought the castle was at the top and was like how does he think that makes any sense?

@josephbeaulieu1569 Жыл бұрын

“I don’t have enough time to create the games” laughs in Elden Ring

@rymdalkis 4 жыл бұрын

"Let's hope the American electorate doesn't get all warlike in the next election" - George RR Martin, 2015

@rymdalkis 4 жыл бұрын

@Gromph Baenre *cough* sure they didn't

@rymdalkis 4 жыл бұрын

@Gromph Baenre Trump has dropped more bombs per year than Obama ever did. We criticized Obama then, and we criticize Trump now. Maybe Trump even more, because he based much of his campaign on saying that the US should't be the world's police

@rymdalkis 4 жыл бұрын

@The Law You mean like how Trump is on the brink of starting a war with Iran?

@rymdalkis 4 жыл бұрын

@Gromph Baenre Tell that to Harry Truman, Lyndon B Johnson, Ronald Reagan, George HW Bush, Bill Clinton and George W Bush

@michelmorio8026 4 жыл бұрын

The Law positioning foreign troops on the very border of Iran, in Iraq, and opposite the Persian Gulf in Saudia Arabia beside his good buddy MBS and killing foreign Statesman in neutral Iraq is provoking war, no matter you wanna depict it

@seancampbell1077 3 жыл бұрын

The first question was asked by the podcaster Ashaya from History of Westeros!

@bananajoe1882 3 жыл бұрын

Gamer by trade. Not a phrase i thought i would ever hear

@Trenz0 2 жыл бұрын

I love gaming and I cringed. Hard.

@lordodysseus 4 жыл бұрын

I've read the books, but were non book readers surprised that Sean Bean died at the end of the first season? If so why? Looks at Sean Bean's filmography.

@lordodysseus 4 жыл бұрын

@@willmosse3684 I can buy that. He lived in National Treasure and Pixels. And I imagine a few other movies.

@sdprz7893 4 жыл бұрын

I've never seen a show like game of thrones before so I thought ned stark was the main character and hero type character and inevitably expected to be king eventually. In my defence he was the face of the poster.

@jasonthompson8147 4 жыл бұрын

I was surprised he took the job where he was the most famous actor in the show. When he died I wasn’t surprised. Just like Lord of the Rings he likes the flawed characters that die.

@hindsightpov4218 4 жыл бұрын

When GoT first aired, spoilers were online that Ned Stark is killed in the books. But it was the first season so people were wondering if HBO was going to follow the books or do something different. With “True Blood” the Lafayette character dies early in the books but HBO changed it so that he lived throughout the tv series. GoT viewers were wondering if the same thing was going to happen with Sean Bean as Ned Stark. Once he was killed, viewers realized HBO was following the books with this series.

@aryasnow2709 4 жыл бұрын

Lord Odysseus I watched the show first and the whole time I was just waiting for him to get out of it, for Joff to change his mind, but no lol

@gloom7200 4 жыл бұрын

10:18 wtf ? this is awesome! I didn't knew about this.

@manofhonor1685 4 жыл бұрын

What game is he referencing?

@theM4R4T 4 жыл бұрын

@@manofhonor1685 The Expanse. It's a book series. Also has a tv adaptation.

@manofhonor1685 4 жыл бұрын

@@theM4R4T thanks

@Jennifer-di4nl 3 жыл бұрын

Change the title this is way more than just about Casterly Rock

@fattylewis9026 4 жыл бұрын

G.R.R.M: breathes AUDIENCE: hahaha

@bloodaonadeline8346 Жыл бұрын

so to get to the castle you have to walk the equivalent of a several skyscrapers? It’s amazing anyone ever leaves.

@tulkas42o22 4 жыл бұрын

Ashaya!!! Woo hoo!!!

@closetglobe.IRGUN.NW0 3 жыл бұрын

I used to think that it was partly inspired by California since they're both the west coast and had a ton of gold

@rasheedqe 4 жыл бұрын

Can you imagine G RR Martian being a DM in an D&D game. That would be epic.

@manofhonor1685 4 жыл бұрын

rasheedqe alright guys just gimme like 8 years to make this campaign, but holy shit when he put it out itd be epic :D and id happily wait

@ericjohnson9623 4 ай бұрын

Wild Cards came out of GRRM being the DM (or I guess just game master) of a superhero RPG named Superworld. All his writer friends created their own characters and worlds, and then they created Wild Cards as a place to put them.

@EnvisionerWill 3 жыл бұрын

When did this interview happen? I can't tell which candidates he's talking about with the upcoming election.

@aesir1ases64 2 жыл бұрын

Its 2015 he was talking bout trump (martin hates trump) but ironically trump was the most peaceful president in the last 4 decades of the usa lol

@EnvisionerWill 2 жыл бұрын

@@aesir1ases64 I'd say that's not ironic so much as bloody obvious. War is good for business, and Trump as a businessman already didn't need it to the same extent as all the career politicians who have no other way of making bank.

@pechugaslarou3433 2 жыл бұрын

@@aesir1ases64 Yes, the illegal arrests and the shooting of protesters, the hateful and racist speech, the denial of the pandemic and the hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths, and the fact that he ends his term as a domestic terrorist trying to sabotage an election of all possible (and illegal) ways makes it very peaceful. @EnvisionerWill He was, is and will be a scammer (and a very stupid one, like his believers) , he made his money in other ways than the usual US political status quo

@tom_demarco Жыл бұрын

@@aesir1ases64 so peaceful he used more drones in 2 years than obama did in 8

@thatcherridings8388 3 жыл бұрын

The Casterly Rock is just a rebranded Official George RR Martin Conk Rock

@Jake-zk3eb 4 жыл бұрын

of course he likes perrin the best, given hes the wolf boy

@MagicianCamille 4 жыл бұрын

That guy thought GRRM wrote for the Telltale game? Lmao

@shortbuspimp 4 жыл бұрын

Lol so many podcasters voices

@varanasiwalks1451 4 жыл бұрын

I think this is the last "GRR Martin Answers Fan Questions" video that i watch. We're all crawling up our own asses here till the man writes a book, or comes clean and says she will not.

@theophrastusbombastus1359 3 жыл бұрын

Bitch please

@varanasiwalks1451 3 жыл бұрын

@@theophrastusbombastus1359 i AM bitching, thanks

@theophrastusbombastus1359 3 жыл бұрын

@@varanasiwalks1451 I can see that well enough. But it's the last video you'll be watching on the subject so we won't be subjected to it any more thankfully

@varanasiwalks1451 3 жыл бұрын

@@theophrastusbombastus1359 oh come on. my FIRST criticism. i merely disagree with you, i've hardly been flooding the media with my opinion. (let me 'like' your post, for not being VERY VERY rude in your disagreement, only "a bit rude" 👍) My opinion is that Mr Martin deserves to retire like any of us. That just because he bit off more than he could chew when he was 60 don't make him beholden to us to do anything ever again if he so chooses. And it's just US the fans who NEED and EXPECT and WAIT. If it happens, it happens. Me, i do not DESERVE another book nearly as much as Martin DESERVES to retire and chill.

@theophrastusbombastus1359 3 жыл бұрын

@@varanasiwalks1451 a very different notion to how the initial post comes across. "I'm not watching any more videos, as the wait is killing me. He either needs to crack on with it and finish writing the damn book already or just come clean and save us all the anxiety of waiting" - is how your initial post reads ("crawling up our own asses" etc.) And to clarify: he does indeed write other stories, though I suspect you're only impatient for one Try out his Targaryen prequels to satiate your impatience maybe?

@rasnac 4 жыл бұрын

Question from Aziz of Westeros History youtube channel at 03:17

@espalier 3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like Aziz

@gigantomastiaCuddler Жыл бұрын

Why did they decide to film him behind the most distracting man in the world?

@billy6044 Ай бұрын

Holy crap, I had no idea GRRM was involved so early in the creation of the expanse, I wonder what character was his… Probably a morally complex bookish nerd, that scientist who worked for pierre chau perhaps?

@georgebryant7721 3 жыл бұрын

Not what risk is

@AbiShoukathAliA 4 жыл бұрын

Wait casterly rock wasn't based on lion rock of srilanka called singaraya

@aengusog3415 4 жыл бұрын

@AbiShoukathAliA 4 жыл бұрын

But the description of singa ra ya matches 40% with casterly rock

@miguelpadeiro762 4 жыл бұрын

No.

@Bartooc 4 жыл бұрын

No.

@dv9239 2 жыл бұрын

Singaraya is on top of the mountain and Casterly rock is carved into the mountain

@Lizzie-ve7kt Жыл бұрын

I’d disagree with George’s assessment of Edward II as he spent so much time focusing on his favorites that he alienated the other nobles and he ignored and mistreated his wife so much that he lost a key ally with France. Edward made a lot of selfish choices including going to war over personal slights like when the nobles forced his favorite into exile and he would continually reverse reforms if he didn’t get his way.

@Airdathegamer 4 жыл бұрын

WTF is that guy talking about? There are a lot of books opening up with the POV character dying. Raymond Feist comes to mind, but there are numerous examples. Even Harry Fucking Potter does it once.