G.R.R.M. (George RR Martin) A Song of Ice and Fire, HBO Games of Thrones, said that he feels video games are becoming realistic and addicting. He doesn’t have a problem with them other than the fact that he stayed up all night to play one and realized he probably shouldn’t do that.
What would Tolkien think of WoW? I don’t think he would have a strong opinion on the subject. He would more than likely be concerned with world building in movies and tv shows and how they portray the author’s intent.
If he did though, he would most likely root for the alliance and probably like night elves the best. He would hate the Forsaken and the orcs for what they attempt to do in ashenvale etc.
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Martin needs to stop playing video games so he can finish the next book in the A Song of Ice and Fire series. When was the last book released? 5 or 6 years ago?
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I don’t know what Tolkien would think of WarCraft. But I know what he’d think of George RR Martin:
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He would be upset that every tree didn’t have a back story and that there are thousands of years with out 50000 pages of lore each.
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Tolkien wasn’t all that prolific. I don’t think the sum of all of his writing is more than a few thousand pages. Also, I don’t recall a lot of backstory, besides Silmarillion, which was a history of Middle Earth.
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He would probably think it was some sort of witchcraft and run away.
Mr tolkien will compose amazing original song for wow. He would not like warhammer.
Go watch one of the LotR lore videos. It is insane how detailed he was. After his death his son found a lot of notes…
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I think GRRM would be amazed how fast an expansion is able to be made for a video game like WoW. You know…when people actually apply themselves to the work.
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I’m aware. His son finished some of his books using those notes and also helped Humphrey with Tolkien’s biographies.
In comparison, GRRM has so many notes he had to hire an assistant to help keep Song of Ice and Fire all together. I’d imagine all world-builders have those kind of notes. Most of it doesn’t make it into novels though.
I guess my point was when I think of a writer doing insane amounts of pages, I first think of Stephen King or GRRM, not Tolkien. That’s just me though.
Either way, I don’t know what Tolkien would think of WoW. He might be amazed by the technology, because it didn’t exist in his lifetime, or he might be mad that WoW borrowed Orcs, which are his invention, and made a fortune off it.
Middle Earth is the first thing I think of in terms of world building and detail in fiction literature. The guy basically created a whole new language for LotR.
He’d be too busy raging over what Peter Jackson et al. did to “The Hobbit.”
I rewatch the Lord of the Rings trilogy films, sometimes around Thanksgiving (yeah, all 3, extended editions.) I find it watchable because most of them are really good, sticking to what Tolkien wrote (for the most part, except major edition of Arwen but at least some of that was still Tolkien’s writing from the Appendices. )
I can’t rewatch Jackson’s Hobbit series; For one thing, it was more of a quick story Tolkien did for his son (which I originally read in grade school.) So stretching it out to several movies basically meant writing something new, which was no longer “The Hobbit.” It really shows in the quality too, especially trying to turn it into an “action film” when it really wasn’t.
So I think Tolkien would be way too busy raging about what has been done to his works, to pay attention to something like Wow. Also, that Lord of the Rings Online game still exists?
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I feel like this is just another example of George procrastinating on writing that darn book lol.
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He needs to write another “History of the Lannisters”. Maybe by 2032 we’ll get the next book.
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GRRM is a hack writer. I read the basic 5 Game of Thrones novels. I loooove big fat books with tons of details - except Martin’s books. He just wrote a lot A LOT of words…rambling on and on like he loves to hear/see himself talk. They were so bad, I don’t recall Anything except main characters dying midway. Refuse to watch the HBO versions too. And I’m a Huge high fantasy dragon, sword & sorcery fan.
I loathe GRRM.
Tolkien was hard to read since he was also verbose but his word are vividly evocative and the imagery painted in my mind when I was a teenager still lingers. Of course the movies may be the cause.
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GRRM and his writing reminds me of the Robert Jordan Wheel of Time series. Each one bigger than the last one. A whopping 14 books. Text upon wall of text. Lol
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I hate this author so I read 5 fat books of his.
For the most part, I enjoyed Wheel of Time, and I am intrigued by the amazon series coming out. The person they cast as Morraine I like a lot.
Yeah, the story bogged down in the middle. Jordan discovered the Tolkien writing style (not saying he did it as well). Why use 10 words to describe something, when you can use 50?
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I will say that it ended amazingly well. Sanderson did great, and I know he had a ton of notes left from Jordan. I really enjoyed how all the “main” characters (and there were quite a few, since they didn’t get killed off) all had their “hero moment”.
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He would be pissed having to grind proudmoore rep!
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