Okay. I get it. It all makes sense now. This was passion. And he said it matter-of-factly. This is why he's such an outstanding author. It's what he is. More than what he does
@Kytseo OH! Me, me - I got here from TvTropes! So glad I did, too, because this is the most beautiful preaching I've ever heard in my life. *wipes away a tear* Rock on, GRRM!
i'll tell you why. because things are more wonderful not in the having, but in the wish to have. indeed, to fantasize is to dream and wish for something else, something better. and fantasy has always been the best.
"Fairy tales are more than true. Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be defeated." - G.K. Chesterton
@FiveFingerRainRap The human brain, as part of this reality, is truly the most amazing tool. It empowers us to experience reality, while at the same time, holds the power to construct vivid alternate realities through imagination.
Since Joseph Campbell wrote Hero with a Thousand Faces six years before LotR came out, it's highly unlikely he would have written anything like this (unless he was a huge fanboy of The Hobbit). This bit was originally published in a book containing biographical essays about loads of fantasy authors published in 1996, including GRRM, Gaiman, Jordan, Pratchett, even Goodkind. I think the reading comes from an audio version of Dreamsongs.
Sometimes when this occures to me; the harsness, dullness and disappointment of reality; I wish I was deranged and delusional, and truly believed I was living the life I always hoped I would, deep in one of those books I read before I learnt the truth.
@@NocturneJester Look around you, think about how an octopus can change colors in the blink of an eye, pairs of swans swim in synchronized motion, even running together across water. Look at the mating rituals of sage grouse, or watch hundreds or thousands of blackbirds take flight at once from a field. And then tell me that the real world can't possibly be as good as fictional ones.
the world closes in. Reality threatens to tear me down, and then one question brings it all back to square one. "Why do our dreams become so small after the become true?"
Could someone please answer this question: What is a Tolkien Imitator? I hear this term all the time, and I still can't wrap my head around what it means. Please clarify.
amen. actually, i try to quietly view some things in this world in a medieval or fantasical light so that i can understand it properly. otherwise it's meaningless fluff that i don't want to hear about.
@ValAktaion Reality can be amazing at times, but to say it surpasses anything fantasy writers can imagine is bullshit. An unexpected and cool idea, but it just isn't true. I agree that, if someone is in the appropriate mind state, reality can be quite exciting. But better than fantasy? Anyone can take a spectacular historical event or scientific fact and imagine it is even more fascinating. Then to say that no one could have come up with the idea on their own is to undermine human creativity.
@wowawwiwwo You are incapable of seeing the Art in fantasy as the others who have been touched by this and Fantasy Literature have. "Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white." You see Black where we see white. "If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite." Fantasy taps on this far more than we do in reality. "Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow."
@publiusfp1 And any starving child in a third-world country dying of cholera back on Earth would gladly switch places with someone living in The Shire. See what I did there? You can keep your computer and internet access. I'd sooner cast spells at Hogwarts.
@wowawwiwwo Your point was entirely invalidated when you started making crude sexual remarks. Try again, and perhaps behave like a mature and civil person this time.
@wowawwiwwo You are wrong on so many levels. I feel sorry for you, you have no joy or love in life. Also your comprehending capabilities are far inferior to all who were able to discern the deeper meanings behind this. You need to step back and truly look at the world and how its developed from where it was. "Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death."-W. Blake. "As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers." -W. Blake This best describes you.
Uh, that was an example of how math is not "fluff" as you called it. And that kind of math is incredibly useful, from engineering to astrophysics. You know nothing. And I do have the ability to think, something that you're lacking because nothing you say makes any sense at all.
The best fantasy writers are true fantasy fans. Long live George R. R. Martin. Long live the King.
This video never gets old. Its like a battery recharge.
Okay.
I get it.
It all makes sense now.
This was passion.
And he said it matter-of-factly.
This is why he's such an outstanding author.
It's what he is.
More than what he does
Goosebumps every time I hear this
This guy wrote A Song of Ice and bloody Fire.
I just gotta high-five him through the internet or I'll go crazy.
@Kytseo OH! Me, me - I got here from TvTropes!
So glad I did, too, because this is the most beautiful preaching I've ever heard in my life. *wipes away a tear* Rock on, GRRM!
He knows and loves Gormenghast. This man is officially perfect.
The man, our king, just doesn’t miss.
I can't say why but this brings tears to my eyes. Never have I heard anything as beautiful or as sad as this.
That was just beautiful...
When i get to the Prancing Pony the ale'll be on me George
Wow GRRM is incredibly insightful. Excellent speech.
Fucking brilliant! Especially that final line.
Wonderful. I've fallen in love with these words! And thank you for including the transcript!
i'll tell you why. because things are more wonderful not in the having, but in the wish to have. indeed, to fantasize is to dream and wish for something else, something better. and fantasy has always been the best.
:( this made me tear up
Me too, George, me too.
Outstanding clip, uploader. Thanks for posting!
"Fairy tales are more than true. Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be defeated." - G.K. Chesterton
Damn right. I cannot understand people who say fantasy is pointless. They just haven't lived.
Amen to that. Just as long as it's not one of the crazier ones.
Beautiful...
That's it. The man has spoken. There's no more to say.
@FiveFingerRainRap
The human brain, as part of this reality, is truly the most amazing tool. It empowers us to experience reality, while at the same time, holds the power to construct vivid alternate realities through imagination.
Beautiful.
true, but i think that the pictures fit the narration perfectly. they just seem to fit, and evoke in a way what he says perfectly.
All I can say is wow!
Beautifully said
martin is the best!!!!
Auuuuuuuuuuu!!!go Starks go!!!Auuuuuuu!!!
saludos a todos desde españa
really nice spoken...
Well said, tear in eye...
i love this man!
Since Joseph Campbell wrote Hero with a Thousand Faces six years before LotR came out, it's highly unlikely he would have written anything like this (unless he was a huge fanboy of The Hobbit).
This bit was originally published in a book containing biographical essays about loads of fantasy authors published in 1996, including GRRM, Gaiman, Jordan, Pratchett, even Goodkind. I think the reading comes from an audio version of Dreamsongs.
Cool!!
speechless...
*sniffle*
So beautiful.
I completely agree. A revolutionary man, a wonderful author. Thanks for watching.
Did he just refference Ghormenghast and Middle Earth in the same quote. Bravo!
liked the part when he said, "when I die I just wanna go to middle-earth" =)
I feel like a time traveler.
He wrote it around 1996. I don't know when the actual audio interview was.
Sometimes when this occures to me; the harsness, dullness and disappointment of reality; I wish I was deranged and delusional, and truly believed I was living the life I always hoped I would, deep in one of those books I read before I learnt the truth.
why can't reality be just as amazing as fantasy?
@@NocturneJester Look around you, think about how an octopus can change colors in the blink of an eye, pairs of swans swim in synchronized motion, even running together across water. Look at the mating rituals of sage grouse, or watch hundreds or thousands of blackbirds take flight at once from a field. And then tell me that the real world can't possibly be as good as fictional ones.
And hopefully, I can find him in Middle Earth along with Tolkien talking about dragons.
the world closes in. Reality threatens to tear me down, and then one question brings it all back to square one. "Why do our dreams become so small after the become true?"
4 people are TWILIGHT LOVERS. BOO TO THOSE 4
nc video..
But if you were a sinner, you go to Westeros. Muhahaa.
right with ya brother
ah man. thats a piece of truth there and no mistake.
@FiveFingerRainRap it is when we reach the best can we imagine the greater
word!
Me too, George, me too.
wow
"When ill die ill sooner go to midle earth" - Wow
@Sweetkittenpie
Amen, brother. Amen.
This man deserves an effing legend.
Me too.
don't be hasty!! he still has 2 more books to write!! ;-)
yea and i have the audio version of the Hero and this is the exact clip, whatever typical internet
@AvatarWho amen
?But george, you will never die, for you are part of the lords kingdom, and his kingdom is forever.
Middle earth? I would bloody settle for Narnia. :)
They can keep their heaven
haha beans and tofu. fuck that
I know that. It's just a fantasy of mine ;)
Could someone please answer this question: What is a Tolkien Imitator? I hear this term all the time, and I still can't wrap my head around what it means. Please clarify.
Good luck with that.
amen. actually, i try to quietly view some things in this world in a medieval or fantasical light so that i can understand it properly. otherwise it's meaningless fluff that i don't want to hear about.
@ValAktaion Reality can be amazing at times, but to say it surpasses anything fantasy writers can imagine is bullshit. An unexpected and cool idea, but it just isn't true. I agree that, if someone is in the appropriate mind state, reality can be quite exciting. But better than fantasy? Anyone can take a spectacular historical event or scientific fact and imagine it is even more fascinating. Then to say that no one could have come up with the idea on their own is to undermine human creativity.
hehe, and what if heaven is like middle earth?
@GeneralJelly You want to live in Westeros.
/hides a small manly tear, so who got here from tvtropes?
Uh, u srs?
@GeneralJelly babies first troll, 4/10 for getting me to reply
*Sigh* You can keep Middle Earth, I'm going to Gallafrey.
@GeneralJelly Well as much as I love ASOIF, there is no way I would prefer to live in Westeros considering the crapsack hellhole the place is.
@wowawwiwwo You are incapable of seeing the Art in fantasy as the others who have been touched by this and Fantasy Literature have.
"Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white."
You see Black where we see white.
"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite." Fantasy taps on this far more than we do in reality.
"Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow."
@publiusfp1 And any starving child in a third-world country dying of cholera back on Earth would gladly switch places with someone living in The Shire. See what I did there?
You can keep your computer and internet access. I'd sooner cast spells at Hogwarts.
@wowawwiwwo Your point was entirely invalidated when you started making crude sexual remarks. Try again, and perhaps behave like a mature and civil person this time.
Too many continuity errors.
thats not grrm thats joseph campbell from the hero has a thousand faces...clowns
@wowawwiwwo You are wrong on so many levels. I feel sorry for you, you have no joy or love in life. Also your comprehending capabilities are far inferior to all who were able to discern the deeper meanings behind this.
You need to step back and truly look at the world and how its developed from where it was.
"Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death."-W. Blake.
"As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers." -W. Blake
This best describes you.
Uh, that was an example of how math is not "fluff" as you called it. And that kind of math is incredibly useful, from engineering to astrophysics. You know nothing. And I do have the ability to think, something that you're lacking because nothing you say makes any sense at all.