Un suceso en "LOTR" marcó a George R.R Martin y lo inspiró a matar a sus personajes

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00:00Reading is vicarious experience.

00:06These are mostly the miniatures that I wrote stories about when I was a kid.

00:10I've reflected on this a lot, and I look back and think of the whole question of memory.

00:15I mean, what are we? What shapes us as human beings?

00:19I grew up in the projects of Bayonne, New Jersey.

00:22We were poor.

00:24Other kids would go down the shore for the summer and go to the beach or go to the mountains

00:29with their family's cars. We never went anywhere in the summer.

00:31We just stayed in the same old place.

00:33But books took me everywhere.

00:39I read Lord of the Rings, probably junior high school.

00:43You know, it opens, like, with a dissertation on pipeweed.

00:47And then there's a birthday party.

00:50And I'm saying, where are the giant snakes?

00:54Where are the scantily clad women?

00:56There's no sword fights here. What's going on?

01:00But then it started picking up steam.

01:03Rivendell and the Black Riders.

01:06By the time I got to the Mines of Moria,

01:09I had decided that this was the greatest book that I'd ever read.

01:14The Lord of the Rings describes the epic struggle of a band of humans and elves,

01:19led by a wizard named Gandalf and a hobbit called Frodo,

01:23who embark on a journey to save their world from evil.

01:27One popular interpretation of Tolkien's novel

01:30looks at it as an exploration of the famous phrase,

01:33power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

01:38It was so totally immersive.

01:41Tolkien approached this thing as if he was writing history.

01:44He had genealogies that went back not only hundreds but thousands of years

01:48to rise and fall of kingdoms, entire stories in a footnote

01:53that grounded this in reality so much.

01:57Tolkien's greatest invention was the characters who struggle

02:01with the temptation of the ring and what to do with it.

02:05They're all fighting these battles inside their hearts.

02:09That can take place anywhere, at any time, in any space in all of human history.

02:16And then Gandalf dies!

02:22I can't explain the impact that had on me at 13.

02:29You can't kill Gandalf.

02:32I mean, Conan didn't die in the Conan books, you know.

02:36Tolkien just broke that rule, and I'll love him forever for it.

02:41Because the minute you kill Gandalf,

02:43the suspense of everything that follows is a thousand times greater,

02:47because now anybody could die.

02:50Of course, it's had a profound effect on my own willingness

02:54to kill characters at the drop of a hat.

03:00I'm thrilled that Game of Thrones is on the list.

03:04What I wanted to do was take certain of the traditions of fantasy

03:08and bring a smile to it, a level of grittiness and realism.

03:13Your books, your stories should reflect what you see in the real world around you.

03:19Even a fantasy that has dragons should reflect the truth.

03:24To be on the same list with Lord of the Rings is very exciting.

03:28If you are one of the six people in the world

03:31who has not yet read J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings,

03:34what are you waiting for?

03:36Read Lord of the Rings, and if you like it as much as I do, vote for it.

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