Senvideopai noticed me.

Alt Shift X All hail The Shift! His grace has blessed us with his presence! 🙂

Alt Shift X I love this number crunching approach to GRRM's big problems with character and narrative.

Wow if Alt Shift X compliments you on the quality of your video, you know you've done something right. That's a big endorsement.

FWIW I sang ASX's praises before he was poopular, so on a personal level its a very thankful and wonderful endorsement - www.reddit.com/r/asoiaf/comments/2udbqq/no_spoilers_good_fan_theorydiscussion_youtube/co7cxf2/

Those have been around a lot longer than now

Gentle Adam Rebika. That's why he won't finish it OR he will and it'll be published posthumously!

I 100% busted out laughing at this shit. Like dropped my phone and just couldn't stop laughing. Thank you for that :)

same!@@zekerohan4669

Man, I laughed so hard on that one. The despair! :D

Lol

Probably wasn’t joking😅

R/thingsthatdidnthappen

Beto r/nothingeverhappens

AAAAAH ITS REALLY HAPPENING

Yeah same. Like even back then it was shocking that GRRM still hadn't released the book but this video is literally now 5 years old 💀

Here I am 2 months after ur comment

21 here, been reading since 12 years old. its been 9 years no new book LOL

I am getting old...

The first book came out the same month I was born.

This is why I refuse to start reading until they are all out....maybe in my 40s.....and I'm 25 right now....

YEAH ME FUCKING TOO XD GEORGE FIX YOUR GODDAMN WRITING SCHEDULE!

Best use of meme through description of 2018 goes to you my friend. I laughed so long over this. #itsfunnybecauseitstrue

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Oh man I laughed way too hard at that. I haven't had water come out of my nose in a good while :D Honestly this is probably the reason George is taking so long. There is so much to wrap up for so many characters

@@lifeisbutadreamm I have to wait until 8 on x

"Good! That's one less loose end!" *George shoots Victarion in the stomach, Areo in the head*

Or seven books, for that matter.

Adrian Wyatt totally agree, better to develop these characters than take out parts that grow them. And 2 books would be awesome but I’m not sure he’d be willing to split the books up

@@dadman8474 Yes I agree. It would really surprise me if there aren't 7 books total. I believe he has a attachment to that number.

@@brycew3987 7 kingdoms,7 gods,7 books i see a pardon here

You're right that would be the most sensical choice but he said in an interview that he really likes the fact that there are 7 goods 7 kingdoms... and 7 books. So... yeah.

Now I want a chapter with Tyroshi walnuts

@@AdmiralKird LOL. Great video btw.

@Tracchofyre That's the Harry Potter series in a nutshell for me. The earlier books were nice and to the point. The later books, not so much. I even had to put down the 5th book, The Order of the Phoenix because it was getting incredibly dull and tedious with the details surrounding the Ministry of Magic, for me, it was like, who cares? I want to see what happens to Harry and friends.

And that actually worries me his books keeps getting bigger he keeps adding new places and cahracters knowing very well that he only has 2 books left to end the story it actually makes me think that he doesn't want to end it because he doesn't know how to actually give this story a proper conclusion

@@Sherlock910 I can understand that but it's actually what I loved about Order of the Phoenix. Harry's going through such a tough time that every new day is such a challenge and life is pretty excruciating for him. It is bloated, but it kind of works for me because I really feel like I'm experiencing it with him.

It's George who doesn't want that. The Publishers did tell him to do that. I remember reading that in one of his blogs... ups "not blogs".

Thats what they want to do! Its george thats reluctant to do so

A Storm of Swords was split up with Part 1 and Part 2 as well. Part 1 was Steel and Snow and Part 2 was Blood and Gold

I love having multiple volumes of one work, as a book-lover myself. I’d love to see that. Makes it look really important haha

@@Usurpationblitz In the U.S, Storm was one volume. It was only in the UK, Ireland, Australia, and Israel that it was split into two.

if he splits them, i think he will be hell-bent to release WoW at one time, so 2044 at the earliest.

I'm excited for Stannis' story and how that's gonna turn out once Sansa returns to The North

Yeah! With that said, I don’t want the story to finish posthumously..I want GRRM to finally tell the story and talk about...low key I feel like he’s nervous as fuck, just to end something he spent decades on

@@gfilmer7150 I think he wrote the pink letter

@@RedpillRetreat Motive makes sense but the timing doesn’t.

@@gfilmer7150 True. His army is starving

Sadly i think george is actively trying to reduce to one book.

@@veloce5491 That sucks...I hope he doesn't rush the story he has been telling for decades now just in order to fit it into two books

he did say he wants it in 3000 manuscripts ( 2 full books) but he did say if he needs to add more chapters ( pages...) then he will so i don't think he restrains himself like that. Heck his publishers want its like that but he doesn't want a feast or dragon situation ( where took 6 yrs i think for the second part to come) if he doing a 2 parter it be released simultaneously.

@@greeneagle_13 I think it's unlikely that he'll compromise it much

True and most of the time if you like reading books in one part instead of two like I did with SOS and DWD then u can probably find a version online that’s the entire story in one volume instead of having to buy the two separate parts

It is his dream to write the dream after all

I calculated, that could finish A Dream Of Spring at his 100th birthday. The rest’s for you

@@flowrianeast42 goddamit lol

well arent you just a ray of sunshine

FFS were gonna have to wait another decade for dream?

@@officialiheartleila4560 Thomas had never heard such wise words before.

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@@AdmiralKird GRRM, is that you?

Tammy Gordin swiftly followed by a Hodor POV

“Rhaenys had a little kitten once, a black tomcat called Balerion. She thought it would protect her, like the dragons of old. Ser Armory Lorch broke her of that illusion when he dragged her from under her bed and dashed her skull against a wall.”

I’m going to be disappointed if this doesn’t happen now.

Even GRRM on his "notablog" was confused and thought it was official because he saw it all over the internet for years. But yeah it was done up by a fan, cover art generally isn't done until right before a book is published in the publishing process and authors have almost no say in what it looks like. Brandon Sanderson has a good author's lecture on the process but he has so many lectures it's hard to find which one it was.

so in the UK edition they have already done this for Dance of Dragons/ Storm of Swords, happy they did tbh, also storm of swords is 4 books in French editions

Sory, how much is 500 pages long books in your country?

@@rosepetal34 as a French speaker that's entirely their fault for having such an unnecessarily wordy language

That is certainly the route I think would be best.

@@MyPisceanNature The problem with that could be that it doesnt fit with the plot. One thing that happens with one character effects what the other character do etc

James & Audrey Purdue I think this is very plausible. But don't forget that Melisandre is also a pov character now.

Mel had 1 chapter and I'd think she'll only have 1, MAYBE 2 in the next book. Simply because a big part of her character is mystery. But that leaves the problem of no real POV character at the wall. Bran is north and will go farther north; Davos is going to Skagos (the weird unicorn island) and maybe after that to the wall. My guess is that either Shireen or Dolorous Edd will get a few POV chapters. I might even prefere Shireen, since she can be... resolved rather quickly after Jon gets his reboner.

Yeah on second thought I'd definitely probably give Bran another chapter and knock one off of Melisandre at the end. However I gotta think GRRM will give Jon POV chapters again because he needs a way to differentiate him from Stoneheart, as well as I gotta think what he goes through in his personality of being trapped in Ghost for a long time will be something worth reading from a POV and what it does to his character, especially so we as the reader can contrast it with his earlier chapters.

Some needs to tell his story any way

Jim Nastycs If I remember right, George stated that there will not be any new POV characters in the story going forward, other than one off prologues and epilogues, so the POV characters we have in the story at this point are the only ones we're getting to see the rest of the story through.

This... would be quite the book indeed

Brendan Tonkin insteresting, that would be really cool.

That’s what I was thinking

Makes sense

bro wtf he's ded.

@@dhruvgupta18 did u watch the show

ahhha 40 days, than 40 years in the desert

@@TheAwsomeguy99 and then Moses got shit for hitting a rock too aggressively lol

I just watched The Ten Commandments so I can confirm

Who cares, all bs anyway.

@Jim Kwim It might have happened. You weren't alive 3000 years ago lmao.

I didn't get that joke. Pls edukate me, ser

@@kozhikkaalan it's a reference to Star Wars Episode 2 when Anakin famously complained about hating Sand because it was coarse and got everywhere

The series name fits. A lot of people have been mentioning Beserk around here...

@@AdmiralKird You should read it ;)

hunter hunter also

man....

@@yupi749 that comment aged like milk.. rest in piece

Yeah honestly I think TWOW should be one book while ADOS is split

So what you're saying is...George is trying to..HOLD THE DOOR.

At this point, I wonder if he isn't resisting the idea of writing the damn books

He doesn't give anything away with his words does he?

I hope he doesn't try to keep rewriting just to make it fit in one book. I wouldn't mind two volumes if they're released at the same time.

I understand what you mean, but with the exception of Asha (whose AFFC chapter is more like a prequel to her bulk 3 chapters in Dance), the majority of them are just one or two chapters that act as Coda's to the AFFC portion, 9 chapters. So for the majority of Dance, it's acting as the sequel to ASOS by taking those characters, where they left off at the end of Storm, and carrying them forward. So I have to think of it more like a sequel to ASOS because... that's just what the majority of it is.

@@AdmiralKird at least a third of dance is a sequel to feast. You can say it's mostly a sequel to storm but that kinda ignores the fact that the story has been reconciled in most regards. Are we sure that there's going to be a dance of dragons v2? Aegons whole point was to prove himself to Daenerys(thanks Tyrion). She's got the dragons so he needs some part of a kingdom to bring to the table. Ooooooooor you're right and there's gonna be a mad rush of character movement and death to fit it all down.

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Shitt😂😂👍

"...or sth like that IDK"

haha yeah

The human eye, in conflict with itself.

Scarlet i wouldn’t suggest C.S Lewis over modern writers Try Sanderson Rothfuss Abercrombie Hobb Lynch And so many more

It is his legacy and if he's not careful his legacy will be an unfinished series of books with great potential but with a horrible ending revealed in an HBO drama.

@@mikyto7313 He cares more about the good life than his legacy. This series will never get finished, Martin and his fans are just in a state of denial.

Nothing compares to ASOIAF.

This is so true, imagine that Tolkien started writing Lotr in 1930's and finished in the 50's!

The show feels rushed AF with 3 seasons. (less episodes but still rushed AF) I can't imagine how George is going to fit EVERYTHING on 2 books

One battle is the Battle of Winterfell but what's the other battle? The Battle of Meereen?

@@dylanking5701 Yes , and the battle of storm end

@@erenyeagerii693 Ah, thank you. Comepletely forgotten about Connington's plot

​@@dylanking5701 euron vs redwyne fleet

No, that's cutting people up...

...and her growth, maturation, character arc etc are so rich and vital to the central plot.

@@LordSathar have you even read the books?

@@Rakonax I think it's clear he hasn't if that's what he thinks her character is about.

Sansas plot is my favorite plot line. They will have the wedding, the marching north and Jon as king

Exactly I see Sansa getting into action in book 6. GRRM has been building her up - learning how to play the game and at some point, she will use it. No doubt it will start with her fleeing the Vale to get to Castle Black. There's a reason why she has been told that Jon is the Commander of the Night's Watch and that she senses him dying when she descends from the Eyrie.

Not nerdy enough. Should have written a C program to get the word count smh.

agreed, excellent!

Reversing an expansion into a contraction that doesn't narratively feel like a forced contraction is hard.

@@AdmiralKird God knows, I don't know how he can do it except to let the whitewalkers make it further than they do on the show. That will slim the chapters. But still, given the pattern of more and more characters, there has to be a world reason--as you note-- why our viewpoint would slim down.

@@AdmiralKird They managed to do it in the Wheel of Time quite effectively (even before Sanderson took over) so it's not impossible. I mean Barristan Tyrion Dany Victarion will all be in the same place, as will Jon Connignton Cersei Arianne, plus Sansa and Jon will probably join armies at Winterfell, so all the characters are joining together, so you could eliminate some of the secondary viewpoints like Barristan and Arianne. Plus Stannis is planning to execute Theon, so it could be the end for him too (though doubtful).

​@@AdmiralKird I'll guess he'll do this by killing some of them off. However, that all takes quite a lot of time and planning. If we just look at one sub-plot line, you can easily need quite a large number of chapters. For example, If Dorne allies with the mummer dragon, that is going to need at least 3 chapters (two from A and one from John C as a minimum). Two of the sand snakes are off the Kings Landing and the other to Darkstar. Is that two or three chapters ? Battle of Storms end is one more. The gathering of (f)Aegon's army and its advance on Kings Landing followed by the new battle for Kings Landing can easily be two to four chapters (more). How many Cersei POV does this require (plus dealing with the High Sparrow, High Garden, Sand Snakes, Jamie etc). Does Cersei die or retreat from KL ? If Dany arrives in Westeros before the end of WoW will she and Tyrion deal with the Mummer Dragon (and probably some tragedy that will fall on the Martells/Dorne as a result) before heading North or afterwards (before I think). For any other writer this would be an entire novel in its own right. Everything suggests that WoW is more likely to end up being two 1,500 page manuscript in practice. If you look at the 11 (?) sample chapters from WoW (c 10 to 15 % of the standard sized book of 90 to 100 chapters), they are all chapters which move the story forwards, but not to any conclusion. Each chapter would seem to drive the need for at least 1 other chapter to conclude that story.

I think he wants to have 7 books because of 7 gods , 7 kingsguard etx

@@mikoajtokar5846 well they could just be volumes. In the UK ASOS and ADWD are already split into two novels

this could have been solved if game of thrones used the star wars format of a trilogy of trilogies, we know that the game of thrones story can essentially be cut in 3 parts....war of the 5 kings, second dance of dragons(between Aegon and Daenerys), and the battle for the dawn. Star wars handles three different wars by giving them EACH A TRILOGY to hash out it all out and it mostly worked. Lead up to war, the War, End of war and immediate aftermath. This would have given George RR martin CUT OFF points to wrap up a bunch of plot points in a fast paced third chapter and start the new chapter in the next book. 9 books each trilogy consisting of one war.

Steven Irizarry I don’t think he needs to be that structured. I think a better idea would have to be like LOTR: keep your main story a focused narrative, 4-5 books MAX, and then do the exploration of other parts of your world, kinda like the Silmarillion. Indeed, with the Dunk and Egg and Fire and Blood Series, GRRM has realised this: unfortunately, that realisation came after he exploded the plot lines in AFFC. Unfortunately, I’m sceptical TWOW will ever come out, let alone ASOIAF even being finished

Well Structually, ASoIaF is a bit of a narrative mess, but that's what happens when you try to pad a story with 1.5 books of pure filler.

@@LordSathar the 3 biggest mistakes Martin ever did was make essos boring compared to westeros on a world building level. Not having daenerys conquer meerene in book one, and sticking to the 7 book format. Instead I would be flexible. This is how I would fix daenerys story.... AGOT - Viserys dies, Drogo dies, Dany and her Dothraki(worshipping her because of her dragons) take Mereen, free the unsullied and starts to rule in Mereen. this would mean making game of thrones much longer and making essos better built from a worldbuilding perspective. ACOK - Dany ruling Mereen, ending slavery, Barristan arrives, at war with Yunkai. Does very well and proves her mettle. But the meerene politics have gotten her into a tough position(the meerene knot) ASOS - Continues to rule Mereen, establishes a Council(showing the beginnings of democracy in planetos), recruits two sellsword companies, raises an army which Barristan is training, Quentyn comes across the sea and Dany, Ser Jorah and a small number of soldiers/household guard go across the sea to Dorne. AFFC - They form an alliance with Euron, offering him domain of the Riverlands and her hand in marriage, he ferries the rest of her soldiers across the sea, Tyrion arrives and joins her cause, word arrives to the crown and Westeros that Dany has arrived. Little does Danny know, the lannistors are deposed by the high Sparrows whom they as well are taken out by aegon blackfyre and becomes king of westeros thanks to the iron bank and most importantly a ICE DRAGON from the shivering sea. Dany arrives at dragonstone. Jon snow dies as he did in dance of dragons, but one of his last acts was sending Dany a letter begging for help after what he seen in hardhome(the white walker army). ADWD - Double cross Euron via clever Tyrion plan, install Asha instead. Unify Dorne by marrying Quentyn, war with aegon and lannistor forces(cersei marries aegon) since they're enemies of the crown. Negotiations with Stannis. Doran reveals he has numerous spys around Westeros. Receives letter from Jon snow to help beyond the wall, however Dany never reads the note or doesn't take it seriously. Dany is defeated and goes to dragonstone as euron gets control of all of the dragons. Dany is forced to flee to dragonstone, unable to really understand how to proceed. Stannis plot is concluded somehow. WOW: Jon snow resurrection, Dany after lots of contemplation and character build up faces aegon targaryen and Euron(now the master of dragons) and uses her love for them to break the dragons out of eurons control and all three dragons rip euron apart. The final battle between aegon blackfyre and daenerys commences. stoneheart kills little finger and saves Sansa and goes to winterfell with her daughter, Arya arrives at winterfell different and inhuman like and stoneheart is forced to live a little longer to help them reconcile(final book). Cersei (after the defeat or surrender of aegon) decides to lock down kings landing. Jaime arrives and kills cersei before she can burn down the city with wildfire. Dany arrives and sends Jaime to the wall, Jaime is being sent to the wall. But Jaime doesn't realize that the wall has fallen. A dream of spring: the final book, azor Hai is revealed, stoneheart helps her three remaining children reconcile, daenerys travels north to meet the white walkers head on.

@@yaketysaks disagree...that is the worst idea to do since WAR OF THE 5 KINGS(best arc in the whole series) took 3 books to start, fight, and finish. Feast for crows should have ended with Aegon blackfyre on the Iron throne with a ice dragon. While dany should have just arrived in westeros. this is how I would structure it AGOT - Viserys dies, Drogo dies, Dany and her Dothraki(worshipping her because of her dragons) take Mereen, free the unsullied and starts to rule in Mereen. this would mean making game of thrones much longer and making essos better built from a worldbuilding perspective. ACOK - Dany ruling Mereen, ending slavery, Barristan arrives, at war with Yunkai. Does very well and proves her mettle. But the meerene politics have gotten her into a tough position(the meerene knot) ASOS - Continues to rule Mereen, establishes a Council(showing the beginnings of democracy in planetos), recruits two sellsword companies, raises an army which Barristan is training, Quentyn comes across the sea and Dany, Ser Jorah and a small number of soldiers/household guard go across the sea to Dorne. AFFC - They form an alliance with Euron, offering him domain of the Riverlands and her hand in marriage, he ferries the rest of her soldiers across the sea, Tyrion arrives and joins her cause, word arrives to the crown and Westeros that Dany has arrived. Little does Danny know, the lannistors are deposed by the high Sparrows whom they as well are taken out by aegon blackfyre and becomes king of westeros thanks to the iron bank and most importantly a ICE DRAGON from the shivering sea. Dany arrives at dragonstone. Jon snow dies as he did in dance of dragons, but one of his last acts was sending Dany a letter begging for help after what he seen in hardhome(the white walker army). Dany Is offered hand in Marriage by Aegon Blackfyre(he is indeed a blackfyre) but she refuses and the first battles commence. ADWD - Double cross Euron via clever Tyrion plan, install Asha instead. Unify Dorne by marrying Quentyn, war with aegon and lannistor forces(cersei marries aegon) since they're enemies of the crown. Negotiations with Stannis. Doran reveals he has numerous spys around Westeros. Receives letter from Jon snow to help beyond the wall, however Dany never reads the note or doesn't take it seriously. Dany is defeated and goes to dragonstone as euron gets control of all of the dragons. Dany is forced to flee to dragonstone, unable to really understand how to proceed. Stannis plot is concluded somehow. WOW: Jon snow resurrection, Dany after lots of contemplation and character build up faces aegon targaryen and Euron(now the master of dragons) and uses her love for them to break the dragons out of eurons control and all three dragons rip euron apart. The final battle between aegon blackfyre and daenerys commences. stoneheart kills little finger and saves Sansa and goes to winterfell with her daughter, Arya arrives at winterfell different and inhuman like and stoneheart is forced to live a little longer to help them reconcile(final book). Cersei (after the defeat or surrender of aegon) decides to lock down kings landing. Jaime arrives and kills cersei before she can burn down the city with wildfire. Dany arrives and sends Jaime to the wall, Jaime is being sent to the wall. But Jaime doesn't realize that the wall has fallen.

I like it.

That would be great

Love this

Well, he said he wouldn't... but then he also says the book might be 1,500 pages so... idk. I think if it ends up being split AFFC/ADWD style the chance of a new POV goes up about 300%.

@@AdmiralKird Oh, I wasn't aware of this promise. But then again, he did include Ser Barristan sort-of last minute in Dance.

@@bramvandenheuvel4049 He had to include Barristan in DANCE though - at least so he said - since all the stuff happening in Meeren couldn't fit in the other guys' chapters, especially all of the political stuff. Yet I can not imagine, that he wants to tell that much more he can't tell in his POV chapters he already has since he has fucking 20 POV-Characters. That are so fucking many, even though I personally believe, that Jon will not get more than two chapters in WINDS, if he will get a chapter at all, but that's another story.

George has said NO new POV chapters . .

Bram van den Heuvel - hopefully he won’t need to introduce new POVs because hopefully from this point forwards he will start to bring the different characters back together, rather than splitting them further and further apart. He needs to start tying up and resolving plots lines and tying them together, rather than expanding, splitting, and adding more.

I thought to myself, no way is Berserk that old Then I looked it up: the series started in 1992! I'm relieved that I stopped reading it

@@spinakker14 too bad it's back then.

Fair point

Oh well those books honestly i think were padded because the publisher wanted to drag out a cash cow.

10 books? Damn

LordSathar no

8, probably. 10 is too much, and 7 will definitely not be enough.

That actually feels so G R R Martin

@@Morfeusm I heard that one on Rawrist's channel in one of her dark theories videos.

If he speeds up the walkers they could reach the wall and distract all the people there. Jon's body could then sit in the ice cells unmolested until whatever causes his return. No need of a puppet Jon in that case, I personaly still think Catelyn will bring him back for some reason myself. Lady stoneheart has served no purpose other than more killing at this point and he could have just made Berric change tactics if that was the plan.

@@davidmarriott6321 I like the idea of puppet Jon and not knowing who the puppet master is. Then Jon as Ghost killing Jon's body only to get killed again by someone else thinking they're defending Jon.

why does everyone think he will be resurrected?

* Very difficult to an end an epic series if you haven't planned it properly first.

Lets hope not

This is my worst nightmare. I stopped reading DT after book 5 just because it was getting really dumb and reading the summaries online I’m glad I didn’t waste my time

@@210SAi - Yeah it did. I can't remember the books anymore, but as soon as King started making himself as a character it was like really dude? You can't figure out anything better? And many people consider that his magnum opus ...

Well, except that a lot of characters are coming together. Brienne and Jamie could have two POVs each, but that would still mean four chapters to tell their story. Jon's story could be told in both his own POVs, and Melisandre's. If Sansa ends up going to Winterfell she might meet Asha and Theon, and later Jon. Jon Connington, Arianne and Cersei might be at the same place for a large portion of the book. Likewise, Victarion, Tyrion, Barristan and hopefully Dany soon might join their POVs to tell one story. Actually, I don't think Dany necessarily needs to end her story in this book reaching Dragonstone. Back when George wrote his original outline he didn't have any plans for Aegon. He might be getting the role that Dany was meant to have.

@@Danjen3ify that's actually a good point. Dany is the toughest one, imo, but I think with Barristan and maybe a bit of Tyrion you could tell her story through three different POVs, which would speed up the pace considerably

I like your style

More probable that he does this than changes his story because of format...

MementoMori Both ASOS and ADWD got split up into two parts. The reason why he released AFFC is basically because he already knew that ADWD would take too long etc. TWOW will more likely be split up into three parts, each 500 pages or so.

Publishers would probably split release as they did with books 4&5

@@210SAi GRRM said he’s against that idea

Well there is a pattern GRRM prologues AGOT - Beyond the Wall ACOK - Maester Cressen ASOS - Beyond the Wall AFFC - The Citadel Acolyte Pate ADWD - Beyond the Wall so TWOW has to be a Maester and should be a Maester with Jeyne Westerling if she is part of the prologue

So many broken fandoms out there. Beserk, Half-Life, now Tool. I'll have to remember all of these.

At least Tool fans now have a confirmed release date for the upcoming album.... TWOW still nowhere in sight

Lol tool got a new album

@@AdmiralKird Hunter X Hunter

I'm not sure the printing machines for these books can accept pages of this lower thickness.

Hahahaha my eyes are looking forward to it!

He just likes hangin out there sometimes, ya know, with the Goat of Qohor and all that. Really fun time. (it's a typo/error)

@@AdmiralKird The goat of Qhohor's fun, but the Lorathi would be much better for him, since they believe in the blind god and want to open their third eye, just as Bran/the-three-crow.

Areo should be at High Hermitage. And Arianne at Griffins Roost. I like the map of POV characters. 4 different battles 1.Stannis/Bolton/wildlings Battle of Ice up North. 2 POV characters Theon and Asha. Maybe 3 if Bran sees thru the raven. 2.Battle of Fire in Meereen. 3 POVs; Tyrion, Victarion, Barristan. Is Quentyn Alive????? 3.Battle at Oldtown Euron vs. the Hightowers and him probably conquering Oldtown. I hope. Two POVs: Aeron and Samwell 4.Battle at Storm's End Aegon/GC vs. Tyrells and Stannis supporters who knows? But in all likelihood 2 POVs-- Arianne and Jon Con So every battle has at least 2 or 3 POVs

I could very, very well see the pacing of TWOW pick up from where AFFC/ADWD were at. Those books were written to fill in five years of character development so a return to less chapters per character is highly feasible.

GRRM said he entertained the thought of a 5yr time jump but ruled it out because it worked for some characters like Arya and Daenerys but didn’t work for others like Cersei and Jon. Initially Daenerys story in DANCE (with the time jump) was supposed to start with her and Drogon flying away from the fighting pit. www.cbr.com/game-of-thrones-time-jump-squelched-fear-fan-outrage/

If they come out at all, which I don't think they will.

LordSathar - Winds will come out. Dream is another question...

I’m hoping for 2022. He just updated his blog saying he wrote hundreds of pages in 2020

9 book format was better for the series The 5 kings storyline(best storyline in my opinion) was done in this format...BEFORE THE WAR(game of thrones was the prelude to the 5 kings), WAR(clash of kings), END OF WAR AND AFTERMATH(storm of swords). We know that the original trilogy idea(game of thrones was pitched as As a epic trilogy covering 3 wars) was supposed to cover the war of the five kings, the second dance of dragons, and the battle for the dawn. So do a LOTR and make a trilogy out of each war and divide game of thrones into a trilogy of trilogies(star wars format) and have 9 novels

Bla bla... Fiery dornish peppers, blood sausages and wash it down with a cup of ale... Bla bla...

Indeed.

I figured the mishmash of specifics and inaccuracies were a part of the joke. He couldn't have got it so wrong by happenstance.

Didn't the older people never get to see the promise land, but this children got to? Idk, I haven't read it in a while

@@ryanboggs8685 Yes

You've got to love a god who punishes his followers to 40 years of wandering the desert because they worshipped a golden calf, but then has no problem commanding then to commit genocide the moment they arrive in canaan. Great source of moral authority there.

What if... TWOW is Half-Life 3?

Now that HLA is out it probably has!

You are a brave one

What the hell, are you a PhD student?

What's the essay about? No way you could finish that in one night.

Yeah... There's no way that 722000 words is right. That is the size of an abnormally large novel. Who writes essays the size of abnormally large novels in a day? If you can do that, you must have superpowers.

It's obviously exaggeration with numbers based on the video's numbers lol

I'm not sure I'd like that

He will get chapter because he is one of the 5. In an outline grrm posted it said that these 5 charakter wont die. I think it will be similar to the show, but HE is in the meantime in ghost which then doesnt make him a fire which or they find an total new option

There is also a POV GRRM wrote for Tyrion in ADWD when he falls in to the Rhoyne where he meets "The Shrouded Lord" in some sort of dream sequence, but GRRM cut it from the book.