The Google interview

[The Imp]

i'm going to listen to it again and post a re-cap, unless someone else does before i do, but I highly reccomend watching this.

a few things i remember

GRRM has zero control over what HBO does with the series. He trusts that they will be faithful to the books, that's why he agreed in the first place, but if they aren't, oh well.

He said that in a good year he can write 500 pages.

Contrary to what I had though from previous reports, AFFC had 500 pages removed from it, and those 500 plus another 500 were to be ADWD. He ended up scrapping everything and nearly starting from scratch, as we knew


He "jokingly" said that he has too many POV characters and he needs to kill some off.

When asked if a warg could go into a dragon he said "we'll have to wait and see'.

If he could choose a house in Rl it would be (gasp) LANNISTER, mainly because of the waelth, comforts, etc.

Here's the link. Lots of good stuff there. it's about an hour long

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QTTW8M_etko

 

[Lady of Winterfell]

Thanks for posting this Imp. I don't have time to watch the video now but I can after work.

GRRM has zero control over what HBO does with the series. He trusts that they will be faithful to the books, that's why he agreed in the first place, but if they aren't, oh well.

This could be somewhat worrying, but I hope not. I think HBO will remain as faithful to the books as possible. If they piss too many of the readers off, they may stop watching the show and that could be a large part of the audience.

He "jokingly" said that he has too many POV characters and he needs to kill some off.

I agree. Now who will be next to be killed off?

When asked if a warg could go into a dragon he said "we'll have to wait and see'.

Sounds like a yes to me.

On a somewhat related note to the last quote there, what exactly is the difference between a warg and a skinchanger? Is a warg someone who can enter a wolf, and a skinchanger can enter other animals but not a wolf? Or is there no difference?

 

[The Imp]

Thanks for posting this Imp. I don't have time to watch the video now but I can after work.



This could be somewhat worrying, but I hope not. I think HBO will remain as faithful to the books as possible. If they piss too many of the readers off, they may stop watching the show and that could be a large part of the audience.



I agree. Now who will be next to be killed off?


Sounds like a yes to me.

On a somewhat related note to the last quote there, what exactly is the difference between a warg and a skinchanger? Is a warg someone who can enter a wolf, and a skinchanger can enter other animals but not a wolf? Or is there no difference?

I thought the two terms were interchangeable. A Wiki of I and F confirms this

http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Skinchanger

 

[viZion]

I agree. Now who will be next to be killed off?

If we're lucky, Jon dies. That would seriously bring some tension right back to the series where you never knew who was going to die no matter how much time they spent as POVs.

Let me be clear. Jon DIES and stays DEAD, never to return no matter how many Red Priests are standing nearby. Probably won't happen though .

 

[Lady of Winterfell]

Part of me agrees with you Viz, that he needs to stay dead. Perhaps because there were so many cliffhanger endings to the chapters where the character didn't stay dead. But I wish it was pretty much any other character than Jon. I wish he could have just stayed alive so there wouldn't be any necessary action by a Red Priest, surviving his stab wounds, etc.

But I like Jon too much to truly want him dead. And I just don't see GRRM killing him off yet. But if he actually is dead....wow, that would be a shocker.

I thought the two terms were interchangeable. A Wiki of I and F confirms this

http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Skinchanger

Thanks Imp. I always thought they were the same as well, but there was a passage in the prologue of ADWD that made me think otherwise.

Not all skinchangers felt the same, however. Once, when Lump was ten, Haggon had taken him to a gathering of such. The wargs were the most numerous in that company, the wolf-brothers, but the boy had found the others stranger and more fascinating. Borroq looked so much like his boar that all he lacked was tusks, Orell had his eagle, Briar her shadowcat (the moment he saw then, Lump wanted a shadowcat of his own), the goatwoman Grisella...

 

[C Of K]

In Norse mythology, a vargr (often anglicised as warg or varg) is a wolf and in particular refers to the wolf Fenrir and his sons Sköll and Hati. Based on this, J. R. R. Tolkien in his fiction used the Old English form warg (other O.E. forms being wearg and wearh) to refer to a wolf-like creature of a particularly evil kind.

from wikipedia


You may be onto something there, Lady. I think wargs are skinchangers, but a certain kind of skincnager. There may be different names for others as well. In all likelihood, GRRM didn't feel the need to come up with names for the boar skinchanger, or the shadowcat skinchanger. So he probably just mentioned that the wargs were the most numerous and left it at that because they were already established.

 

[Lady of Winterfell]

Yay! I'm glad I'm not the only one who was thinking that.