Swords and ice
I don’t know anything about The Game of Thrones, the HBO series that begins in 2011. I have not read the fantasy series by George R.R. Martin. But it has Sean Bean and swords! Boromir! I’m in.
Did you cry at The Lord of the Rings movies because the fantasy realms of your childhood had become ‘real’? I slept through The Lovely Bones but I will always love Peter Jackson.
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September 21st, 2010 at 01:52
I had the biggest crush on Boromir. I cried every time he died. And I said “every time” because I watched the first LOTR movie 5 times. In one week.
September 21st, 2010 at 09:01
Don’t start reading A Song of Ice and Fire. It is well-written and immersive. It is also, due to George R.R. Martin’s inability to let go of his television roots, likely to take a back seat to the HBO series.
If the HBO series ends up being good, and all indications point to the fact that it most likely will be, maybe I’ll forgive George R.R. Martin for holding my epic fantasy life hostage for the past decade or so.
Maybe. Sorry. I’m just a little bitter.
September 21st, 2010 at 17:07
Yes, hmm almost. The scene where the fellowship was discussing the gifts they recieved from Galadriel; that Gimli only asked for a single strand of Galadriel’s hair but was given three. Sob sob sob.
September 21st, 2010 at 21:15
I second the second comment. :) I usually read a series after all books have been published, but I made the mistake of starting on this one. It has been sitting on my library for the longest time, and since it is now up to Book 4, I thought that should be enough for the meantime. Well, let’s just say I can now understand some readers’ anger towards the author, and in a few months I just might join the chorus.
But I am excited for the series! Apart from Boromir, there’s Peter Dinklage. Dang.
September 22nd, 2010 at 11:10
Will be looking forward to this series (or maybe read the books first). On a different yet related note, I just found out that Sean Bean was the “True Love” in one episode of Jim Henson’s The Storyteller (aired in the late 1980s). Sigh.
September 22nd, 2010 at 21:54
Produced by Jim Henson, directed by Anthony Minghella before he made movies. The Storyteller is available on video. My sister found our copy in Singapore.
Sean Bean also starred in the British TV series Sharpe, based on the Bernard Cornwell series. Everything I know about the Napoleonic wars I learned from Sharpe. Which reminds me that I haven’t read War and Peace.