| Thomas Thomas | 30 Oct 2014 8:57 a.m. PST |
The Ice and Fire world book has reached stores and has lots of illustrations of the knights of Westeros (not many close ups of foot troops though). The art was reviewed and approved by Martin and is much closer to his intent than anything HBO has produced. Also has lots of color hearldy. (And castles.) Illustrations look very much like Perry WOTR plastics – you can practially use them right out of the box. Though you may wish to add ahistorical shields with hearldry – apparently Westeros knights liked such displays. Great source for look of armies and world. TomT |
| waaslandwarrior | 30 Oct 2014 11:06 a.m. PST |
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| Winston Smith | 30 Oct 2014 12:10 p.m. PST |
And it is also incomplete. He deliberately left out much that will be revealed in books 6 & 7. Can't blame him for that but I can blame him for wasting time (I will probably buy it, curse me!) he should have spent on….
Do get ready for the Silmarilon 2.0 in the far distant future. |
| wminsing | 30 Oct 2014 12:14 p.m. PST |
It's on my Christmas list already. :) -Will |
| jowady | 30 Oct 2014 12:36 p.m. PST |
I don't think that anyone should be surprised by the resemblance to WoTR figures since Martin has stated that the WoTR was the inspiration for GoT. |
| wminsing | 30 Oct 2014 1:50 p.m. PST |
It was AN inspiration, not the only one. -Will |
| jowady | 30 Oct 2014 8:01 p.m. PST |
Man you GoT people are touchy |
Puster  | 30 Oct 2014 11:17 p.m. PST |
Got mine. Absolutely worth it :-) Its nice to see that the illustrations are not effected by the imagery of the TV series. |
| richkurtin | 31 Oct 2014 7:21 a.m. PST |
I'm going to guess that this :
link
is the book they are talking about. Seems supported by this
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article. Google can be handy sometimes. ;-) |
| wminsing | 31 Oct 2014 8:03 a.m. PST |
Man you GoT people are touchy Not touchy, I just still see a lot of 'GoT is WOTR retold in a fantasy world' comments, which is not accurate. It means that some people will not read the books (no interest in history) when they might have liked them, or worse WILL read the books and then be very disappointed in them (since the story isn't actually WOTR at all). I want to clear up any confusion before someone makes a choice on whether to read them or not. ;) -Will |
| Ratbone | 31 Oct 2014 9:14 a.m. PST |
God forbid George try to keep anything consistent between the various places putting stuff out. Wouldn't want things to be easy to understand. |
| wminsing | 31 Oct 2014 10:59 a.m. PST |
I'm curious as how much control you think Martin has over HBO's costuming department? They bought the rights from him, they didn't make him lord and master of their studio. He's pretty damn lucky they haven't said 'you old fool, your story wanders all over the place' and rewrite the entire thing on him. :) -Will |
| Winston Smith | 31 Oct 2014 4:22 p.m. PST |
Bear in mind that Martin took time off from writing sci fi and fantasy to spend 10 or more years in Hollywood writing and producing tv shows.
He is not an innocent caught in a snare by wily producers determined to rape his books.
To see him at conventions he seems quite happy with what they have done to his books and feels no shame in cashing the checks. |
| richkurtin | 03 Nov 2014 6:30 a.m. PST |
They have done a whole lot of rewriting anyway, in order to cut down on characters, speed things up and give more time to some of the 'main' characters. The TV show follows the arc of the books and the main plot, but some of it it out of sequence, just plain different or squished together to make it work for TV.
…And audiences who wouldn't want to read the books. |
returns to a familiar subject, and screws up yet again!
