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Volcanism.

This comes from one of Bran's grandmother's tales, where she talks of one winter which had a night that lasted for a generation.

Somewhere on this planet is something like the Deccan or Siberian Traps. When they're quiet, it's summer, when they're active, winter sets in.

That's certainly far from impossible, as the Earth has had two such periods, both lasting over a million years, that I know of. They might or might not have had similar effects, nobody knows for sure, but they did happen.
 
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No, they occurred some millions of years ago. I think before even dinosaurs, but there's no good reason something like them couldn't start again, even now.

I'm still working on what the White Walkers are a metaphor of. That's the maddening thing about this series; you get the constant idea it's GOING somewhere, that he's going to tie it all up eventually. It's not like Jordan or Donaldson where they're pretty clearly just spinning a yarn designed to entertain us forever, it seems there's a point to this story.
 
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No, they occurred some millions of years ago. I think before even dinosaurs, but there's no good reason something like them couldn't start again, even now.

I'm still working on what the White Walkers are a metaphor of. That's the maddening thing about this series; you get the constant idea it's GOING somewhere, that he's going to tie it all up eventually. It's not like Jordan or Donaldson where they're pretty clearly just spinning a yarn designed to entertain us forever, it seems there's a point to this story.
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I am pretty sure that Martin will tie most things up, but I have a feeling that it's not going to be one of those stories where it comes to a definate close. Martin has speant a long time creating this world and giving it allot of backstory and history. He gives the impression that the story actually starts long before the events of aGoT and I Martin is going to leave us with the sense that the world will continue and it won't necessarily be all honky dorey from here on out. I bet quite a few of the "Villains" survive the last book.
 
Nope. The odd seasons have a magical explanation, and one that will be given in later books. I don't think it's going to involve volcanoes.
 
the freehold of valyria was built in vulanic areas. So it might have a small connection. vulcanoes and their eruption with the story. but i don't see a vulvanic eruption as the cause of the long night.
 
It's all Norse inspiration. The world of fire (Valyria) the world of ice (Beyond the wall), coming together for one big battle in the middle. Somebody laid it out really well, and we have a link on the forums here somewhere.
 
@Tywin, i doubt it's anything that definite. It's probably a mixture of influences and his own imagination, with some thing may or may not having a bigger influence
 
I'm sure there are other influences and of course it is his story, not just a retelling of Ragnarok, but he himself mentions his fascination with the course in Norse Mythology that he took at Northwestern. Read that just a bit ago in Dreamsong's.
 
Well, OK, it's still not that much sillier than saying that Julian May's tales of Pleistocene Exile are based on the legends of the Tuatha de Danaan.

Well, OK, it's a LOT sillier, cause the Traps erupted several million years even before the Age of Mammals, whereas May's books were at least contemporaneous with early man.

C'mon, GoT isn't even Earth actually, is it?
 
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