The Lands of Ice and Fire

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The castle is located along one of the "forks" of the Trident and controls access to the interior of Westeros. Martin also acknowledged spending too much time on rewriting and perfecting the story, but soundly rejected the theories of some of his critics that he had lost interest in the series or would bide his time to make more money.

They are also four of the "big six" main characters of the series, according to Martin (the other two being Sansa Stark and Bran Stark). Each new book has added one or two maps so that, as of A Dance with Dragons, seven maps of the fictional world are available in the books.The family names were designed in association with ethnic groups (see backstory): the First Men in the North of Westeros had very simply descriptive names like Stark and Strong, whereas the descendants of the Andal invaders in the South have more elaborate, undescriptive house names like Lannister or Arryn, and the Targaryens and Valyrians from the Eastern continent have the most exotic names with the letter Y.

Bran is also the youngest viewpoint character, [38] and has to deal with the series' adult themes like grief, loneliness, and anger. R. Martin Talks Season Two, The Winds of Winter, and Real-World Influences for A Song of Ice and Fire". Two days after the fourth season premiered in April 2014, HBO renewed Game of Thrones for a fifth and sixth season. S 16] The interior of Winterfell, such as the Tower of the First Keep, the Great Hall, and Catelyn's bedchamber, were filmed at The Paint Hall studio. Martin split Arya's chapters into both books after having already moved the three other most popular characters (Jon Snow, Tyrion, and Daenerys) into A Dance with Dragons.By the mid-1990s, he had won three Hugo Awards, two Nebula Awards, and other awards for his short fiction. Game of Thrones' Red Wedding is based on Scotland's Black Dinner in 1440 and Glencoe Massacre of 1692". Martin, however, considers sexuality an important driving force in human life that should not be excluded from the narrative.