Game of Thrones is more brutally realistic than most historical novels
- Kind
- Internet Article
- Date
- 24 March 2013
- Publisher
- The Guardian
- Retrieved
- Apr 21, 2014
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History in "A Song of Ice and Fire"
In this, the obvious contrast is with the only work of fantasy to compare in terms of ambition and achievement to Martin's own: The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien's Middle-earth, unlike Westeros, is the creation of a dauntingly learned scholar: his ambition was to fashion from the languages, literature and history of the…