Martin’s epic fantasy series, ‘A Song of Ice and Fire,’ has managed to – in both scope and creativity, not to mention simple writing ability – capture and recreate the story that started in Martin’s head. Since then, I have only come across two authors who have come close to envisioning and successfully carrying out their literary creations to match Tolkien Steven Erikson and George R. But both authors have fallen short of the sheer scope that Tolkien envisioned and, successfully, created. Robin Hobb’s ‘Realm of the Elderlings’ story tops it in terms of pure enjoyment for me, and Terry Pratchett writes with such skill he too edges out Tolkien. Heir of the mad Dragon King deposed by Robert, he claims the Iron Throne.Įver since my entry into the heady and wonderful peaks of fantasy literature following the release of the Fellowship of the Ring movie in 2001, I have been hard pressed to find an author greater than the inimitable J.R.R. Worse, a vengeance mad boy has grown to maturity in exile in the Free Cities beyong the sea. The old gods have no power in the south, Stark's family is split and there is treachery at court. His honour weighs him down at court where a true man does what he will, not what he must. As warden of the north, Lord Eddard Stark counts it a curse when King Robert bestows on him the office of the Hand.
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