It's not all grim oop North of the Wall for Ygritte, Ghost and Jon Snow What ASOIAF does have in common with The Lord of the Rings is that they are great works of fantasy literature: and also, like many great works of literature, they each have considerable flaws. That makes it sound a lot like Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, but - by authorial design - ASOIAF is very much the anti-Tolkien: a general rule of thumb of the series is that no good deed goes unpunished, and Martin's penchant for creating characters the reader cares about, and then killing them off, has become legendary. You can check much of this out at and (for the TV series) and the intriguing and detailed argument that GRRM is rewriting Ragnarök advanced at Game of Thrones & Norse Mythology.ĪSOIAF (to give the series its rather unwieldy acronym) is high/epic fantasy set in an imaginary world with strong echoes of medieval Europe. These are very long books, and the TV series being made from them, Game of Thrones, will probably run to 80 or 90 hours of television by the time Ramsey Bolton, Euron Greyjoy and Lady Stoneheart take their rightful places as the three heads of the dragon, but nevertheless they are dwarfed by the volume of exegesis and commentary written about what has happened so far and what may be to come.
Note: The following discussion ranges across all five books, and thus contains some spoilers for those who have not read that far - but it's not primarily a discussion of the books' plot. Here are my ratings for the individual volumes (via LibraryThing): Martin's projected seven-volume series A Song of Ice and Fire, also known as the source material for the HBO series Game of Thrones. Over the past month-and-a-half, I have read the five volumes published to date of George R.
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