Official Game of Thrones Season 4 Thread *The North Remembers*(NO SPOILERS!!)

[Malik]

I'm too busy doing other shyt, to have time to read WHOLE books. But just reading detailed chapter summaries is more time-manageable/flexible.



Anyways, are the "Game of Thrones" books thicker than the "Lord of the Rings"/"The Hobbit", "Harry Potter", "Hunger Games", & other popular Fantasy/Supernatural/Sci-Fi book series adapted to film? Because after watching these 3 seasons of "Game of Thrones", I don't see how you can fit 1 book into 1 feature film without cutting-out huge amounts of storylines, characters, & especially details from the books.

I have all those books. The LOR books are about 300 pages a piece....Hunger Games books 400 pages a piece.....the Harry Potter books range, the smallest being 300 pages, the largest being 800 pages...Every one of the Game of Thrones books are 800 pages or more. And the word font is tiny compared to say Harry Potter, so its really 1200 pages worth of content. I read through the first Hunger Games in a few days. It took me two weeks to finish the first Game of Thrones book. I still haven't touched the other four books I have laying on my dresser because they're big as fukk :arabhuh:

 

[satam55]

I have all those books. The LOR books are about 300 pages a piece....Hunger Games books 400 pages a piece.....the Harry Potter books range, the smallest being 300 pages, the largest being 800 pages...Every one of the Game of Thrones books are 800 pages or more. And the word font is tiny compared to say Harry Potter, so its really 1200 pages worth of content. I read through the first Hunger Games in a few days. It took me two weeks to finish the first Game of Thrones book. I still haven't touched the other four books I have laying on my dresser because they're big as fukk :arabhuh:

WTF??!! People always make it seem as the LotR novels are some thick-ass books.

 

[Berto]

I just hope season 4 starts at the end of March/beginning of April. If so, we got about 3 months, a teaser and hopefully a couple trailers. 3 months ain't that far away, we've already waited 6 months since season 3 ended. Season 3 DVD comes out next month so we'll start seeing promo for that. It's not that far away.....

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

WTF??!! People always make it seem as the LotR novels are some thick-ass books.

Rambling bullshyt describing some fukking tree

 

[Piff Perkins]

All the seasons have started in March or April, I'd imagine same applies here. Probably early April.

should be getting some "making of" videos soon.

 

[BonafideDefacto]

The GoT books may be bigger than the other fantasy stories...
but they flow fast as hell once you have an image of the characters.


The Potter Books flew by faster than anything for me growing up cause of the easiness of the read
I mean...
They're young adult books...
What you expect...
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon


Moving on...

Never read the LOTR series prior to the 1st Hobbit movie,
I had envisioned those to be 1000+ pages from the Tolkien praise I hear



So after hearing all this crap about Tolkien being the greatest Fantasy writer and all
I got interested...

So one day I'm in Barnes & Noble...
...and this is a month before The Hobbit(Movie) came out
I decided to cop the book

I must've read half of it and was like...


I then went back to B&N's and scrolled thru the 3 LOTR books and was like...


This trash isn't better written than ASoIaF

It felt rushed
He coulda did more
A mon avis...

I wasn't expecting Peter Jackson to write a more detailed version of the Hobbit for a picture than Tolkien

I mean,
Doesn't the opposite happen

Novels are usually stripped to film
not content implanted
​

All the detail provided in Tolkien universe was post manuscripts and small stories
Most of the things I've read from Tolkiens universe wasn't even included in the books


It made me appreciate the attention of detail that GRRM goes thru on each book

So when I hear that bullshyt of GRRM being the American Tolkien...


GRRM's writing, imagination, his understanding of human psychology,
...everything...
is amazing

Everyone that disagrees


Sorry but had to take my time to rant cause people keep putting Tolkien on this pedestal that no one else can live up to

It goes with typical human psychology to over romanticize about the past and hold elder works higher than current despite the content being contrary

But I will give Tolkien praise outside the obvious
-He did "start" the whole genre-


His writing style is poetic
albeit rushed
his descriptions of scenery and places are


Although slightly sequestered...
GRRMs writing does poses a layered depth-ness that Tolkiens lacks
This may be due to there views on humanity

While Tolkien posses a belief in human nature...
this allows his books to focus on love, friendship, loyalty and doing whats right.

GRRM's writing is adverse
He poses a Aristotelian view on human nature coupled with the dangers of faith
which is why ASoIaF shows humans in both our finest and darkest hours with greed, manipulation, religion, and lust for power

GRRM dives into human psychology when it comes to power and religion...
as well as the philosophy of politics with human nature

But both present us with hope


I mean in no means in the end...
to take anything away from JRT

Its just...
I would like the literary community to give Martin the respect he deserves as a writer


[/EndRant]
​

 

[beanz]

my man the mountain.

still think it should have been the mountain from season 1 tho

 

[Berto]

The new mountain looks bigger but the season 1 mountain looks more menacing. Season 2 mountain was a lanky muthaphucka

 

[ATLien]

my man the mountain.

still think it should have been the mountain from season 1 tho

he look too affable

 

[beanz]

he look too affable

he's a brolic and scary looking dude when he wants to be, but he isnt as tall and mean looking as the season 1 mountain. that was a scary dude.

 

[Grand Conde]

The GoT books may be bigger than the other fantasy stories...
but they flow fast as hell once you have an image of the characters.


The Potter Books flew by faster than anything for me growing up cause of the easiness of the read
I mean...
They're young adult books...
What you expect...
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon


Moving on...

Never read the LOTR series prior to the 1st Hobbit movie,
I had envisioned those to be 1000+ pages from the Tolkien praise I hear



So after hearing all this crap about Tolkien being the greatest Fantasy writer and all
I got interested...

So one day I'm in Barnes & Noble...
...and this is a month before The Hobbit(Movie) came out
I decided to cop the book

I must've read half of it and was like...


I then went back to B&N's and scrolled thru the 3 LOTR books and was like...


This trash isn't better written than ASoIaF

It felt rushed
He coulda did more
A mon avis...

I wasn't expecting Peter Jackson to write a more detailed version of the Hobbit for a picture than Tolkien

I mean,
Doesn't the opposite happen

Novels are usually stripped to film
not content implanted
​

All the detail provided in Tolkien universe was post manuscripts and small stories
Most of the things I've read from Tolkiens universe wasn't even included in the books


It made me appreciate the attention of detail that GRRM goes thru on each book

So when I hear that bullshyt of GRRM being the American Tolkien...


GRRM's writing, imagination, his understanding of human psychology,
...everything...
is amazing

Everyone that disagrees


Sorry but had to take my time to rant cause people keep putting Tolkien on this pedestal that no one else can live up to

It goes with typical human psychology to over romanticize about the past and hold elder works higher than current despite the content being contrary

But I will give Tolkien praise outside the obvious
-He did "start" the whole genre-


His writing style is poetic
albeit rushed
his descriptions of scenery and places are


Although slightly sequestered...
GRRMs writing does poses a layered depth-ness that Tolkiens lacks
This may be due to there views on humanity

While Tolkien posses a belief in human nature...
this allows his books to focus on love, friendship, loyalty and doing whats right.

GRRM's writing is adverse
He poses a Aristotelian view on human nature coupled with the dangers of faith
which is why ASoIaF shows humans in both our finest and darkest hours with greed, manipulation, religion, and lust for power

GRRM dives into human psychology when it comes to power and religion...
as well as the philosophy of politics with human nature

But both present us with hope


I mean in no means in the end...
to take anything away from JRT

Its just...
I would like the literary community to give Martin the respect he deserves as a writer


[/EndRant]
​

In other words, you didn't read the LOTR at all and you read half of The Hobbit, which Tolkien considered a kid's book. Maybe you should read the actual fukking books before you pass judgement.

 

[obarth]

In other words, you didn't read the LOTR at all and you read half of The Hobbit, which Tolkien considered a kid's book. Maybe you should read the actual fukking books before you pass judgement.

You ain't have to do dude like that

But yeah, calling GRRM the American Tolkien is amazing praise. The brilliance of Lord of the Rings can't be appreciated in a quick scroll through of it. Tolkien literally created a languages for his works. Legit languages linguistically. Over 20 of them A Song of Ice and Fire is also a much easier read than Lord of the Rings.

 

[Pifferry]

You ain't have to do dude like that

But yeah, calling GRRM the American Tolkien is amazing praise. The brilliance of Lord of the Rings can't be appreciated in a quick scroll through of it. Tolkien literally created a languages for his works. Legit languages linguistically. Over 20 of them A Song of Ice and Fire is also a much easier read than Lord of the Rings.

You gonna make any game of throne's smiley's for this season ?

 

[obarth]

You gonna make any game of throne's smiley's for this season ?

Of course

 

[BonafideDefacto]

In other words, you didn't read the LOTR at all and you read half of The Hobbit, which Tolkien considered a kid's book. Maybe you should read the actual fukking books before you pass judgement.

...oooooor I can grasp a great snapshot of his work...
mix in a bit of subjective analysis
and come to a fukking conclusion

I'll stick to that

I think I made it clear I didn't sit down and read the entire book series

So unless your going to add something to the subject...
take your ass back to trolling