@@roas2 This is true. The Romans marched all the way to the Speyside area and had a large battle, the battle of Mons Graupius. They won, but the Emperor died (in Rome or somewhere) and they retreated until the new Emperor's policy was known. Mons Graupius is a mountain, but no one is certain which one. Interestingly, I read that a later historian misread or mis-spelled Graupius as Grampius, which is where the name Grampians comes from.
The way he talks about visiting the wall with his friend and thinking about the Roman soldier, you can hear his natural story telling ability flowing out, it's amazing. I was really taking in what he was saying and getting into it like a proper story.
Tbf most of what he said led into the meaningful moment he had that was inspirational for his fiction and he probably told that story many times. Not knocking his storytelling but I hesitate to call artistry like that “natural”. That shit is intentional and earned.
The wall is his single most fascinating invention in ASOIAF. What lies beyond? Why is it needed? Who built such a massive structure? Just gets your mind going instantly... No wonder GOT was such an instant success from the pilot onwards
@@karltanner3953 That, plus it halted everything besides a scouting party from crossing quickly, which gave the people behind the wall time to prepare and reinforce instead of being overrun.
The Wall was actually built on a set just north of Belfast, northern Ireland. I drove past the set on a tour, wasn't a GoT tour or anything, the driver just pointed it out while we were driving. I guess they've dismantled it now like they did with our hopes and dreams for season 8 but still was preety cool to catch a glimpse of it while it was up..
Most of GOT is based around the war of the roses... two royal families vying for the throne of England. The Lancasters and the Yorks. (Lannisters and starks)
@Butthole Surfer lol it's pretty much mostly british watch this ruclips.net/video/Odw3Nxdqq4o/видео.html George himself talks about it, it is very interesting
@Butthole Surfer so you're actually contradicting George R R Martin himself, who says it is mainly based on British history? How stupid do you have to be to say that the actual author himself doesnt know what his books are about? The state of you.
@Butthole Surfer You said that it is mostly European, not so much British. You then contradictorily agreed with a statement that it is mostly British, and that it has some international elements. How about you just respectfully admit that you are wrong? I didn't read anybody expressing that there are no elements from other countries.
I used to live in Newcastle and would often drive up to the wall. It's beautiful up there, especially when it's quiet. Can imagine how a place could inspire the such a place as the ice wall.
Being born in Newcastle and being raised in Wallsend up until I was 7 (named as it was the end of Hadrians wall) I must say it feels really cool to know that the tiny part of the world where I grew up is inspiration for one of the biggest and most known TV shows in history!
The Romans also built the Antonine Wall, made of earth, beyond Hadrian's Wall at the narrowest point in Scotland during the reign of Hadrian's successor Antoninus Pius, and several forts beyond that in the Scottish Highlands. But they couldn't hold any of those fortifications for very long and soon retreated back to Hadrian's Wall.
@@jnes624 they couldn't hold it with force either the wall had a small garrison not a whole legion defending it since it was more of a border and watchpost thats why it isnt very tall and why picts were able to climb it
@@jnes624 have you never heard of the ninth legion? Cause that was a pretty big factor in the end of it all. They never had a ninth legion again it was kinda like the Roman Titanic
Antonine wall is the most northerly wall of the Roman Empire, the Picts (natives of Scotland) kept attacking the wall so they retreated back to Hadrians wall after 8 years (but some also say they retreated because empire antonine died). There is a lot more forts along Antonine wall and evidence of mine pits as they used forts along the wall to fend off the Picts (natives of Scotland), you can visit the forts today and see where the wall is built. Antonine wall in just above the latitude of Glasgow and Edinburgh so a great distance north from Hadrian's wall.
God I love this man so much! In this interview, he is literally watching the sunset atop Hadrian's Wall as he speaks to the interviewer, who is there, on the wall with him.
my dad made a good point about the wall: if its 700 feet tall then why are the mountains behind and around it not towering over it? Wouldn't you be able to see far beyond the wall if you stood high near the peaks of the mountain range to the south west of it? Realistically the mountains would be a lot taller than 700 feet.
I’m a little late but. If you ever reach the peak of a mountain you cannot look past the horizon due to the clouds and fog especially north of the wall where it is always cold and foggy and windy and perhaps no one was smart enough to try
The one thing I am proud of being scottish for is our defiance and the repelling of roman conquerers I'm not a patriot, in any way, but it is a noble bit of history I enjoy to tie myself to
If anyone wants to ride the real lift along the wall, you can. Late 70s, Martin lived in Dubuque Iowa and taught at Clarke College here. We have an elevator along a bluff that was an inspiration for the left along the wall. Dubuque | George R.R. Martin
I liked how the interviewer injected the pragmatic issue of melting when he was waxing comedic about a would be tourist attraction. Now he must realize his folly, thanks yo her
I’ve loved this song ever since it was released, it was totally different to anything else around. I still love it, but have you heard the Tori Amos version? It’s kept a lot of what 10cc created but added a whole new sinister world to it. Give it a listen, you may be surprised.
some of these comments, why there's always have to be an alternative suggestion., why not China's wall, why not Berlin wall....its a source of his inspiration, sometimes seeing it, traveling to it, experiencing it, mAke it stick to your head than a picture youve just seen....Ive only been to Boston once, for 4 days. but the experience stuck to me, after more than a decade is still strong, compared to the Grand Canyon, which Ive seen numerous times but only in pictures...how do you make a story out of that...
As a Scot I would be quite happy to consider myself one of the free folk north of the wall (hadrians wall) the only thing is we still need to win our freedom.
This sounds similar to the black gate, which is operated by rangers who defended it against the evils of Mordor. At least I think so... Don't attack if I'm wrong. please.
Actually It was Andriano who built this wall, an emperor from Hispalis (currently Seville, Spain). And then, thousands years after, they have shooted the last espisode from the 7th season. That when they bring the whitewalker in front of Cersei the Queen...in Sevilla. Those are the remains of the ancient city of Italica, in particular the ancient Roman Circus of Italica, 40 km away from the mentioned capital city of the Andalusian region in Spain.
Not to be too picky but the wall would be the Antonine wall in Scotland if you look at the map of Westeros the north is Scotland basically and the wall in got and The Antonine wall it further north... sorry for the geek out it’s still the same idea the Romans built it just a different wall 😂
Interestingly, before I read the book and watched the show, I had a similar idea, inspired by the Hadrian's Wall as well. A large stone wall with godly wards that kept the armies of Darkness away from it. Well, TBH, GRRM has molded my story so much that now what was called the "Alliance Watchers' Guild" became just "The Watchers' Guild" and is now a decaying body, instead of a great, grand army.
The truth is, he was drunk off his ass at a Lil Jon concert in Detroit, when he got to "...To with windows... to the wall!" and he went, "Hey, wait a minute..." True story. I was there that night working stage security.
When he says he had the wall all to himself, that's basically him admitting that he pissed off it like Tyrion did.
TKGriffiths hadrians wall nowadays is about 4 foot tall..wouldn’t be much of a glorious piss
@@davidbothwell9669 Maybe not glorious, but... Who wouldn't?
Lol
@David Bothwell is it even 4”?
And little did we know that the inspiration for the terrifying white walkers was just wandering drunk Scotsmen
We are the right colour tbh.
I've always known it xd
@@evilscotsman495 Lmfao
They are the wights.
I've seen one with my own eyes. He wanted "change fae the bus".
great interviewer, no interrupts just lettimg the man speak his own smooth way
Ashour Disho you should watch other clips of this day. Interviewer may not interrupt him but she is a complete moron
She ruined his joke at the end. -_-
when you can't talk well you learn quickly to not talk much
when you got no clue you shut up
Ashour Disho watch the other clips🤣
This reminds me of a joke, that the Romans conquered the whole known world then got to Scotland and built a wall.
@@pseudonymousbeing987 Because of Hadrian and the roman peace
@@roas2 This is true. The Romans marched all the way to the Speyside area and had a large battle, the battle of Mons Graupius. They won, but the Emperor died (in Rome or somewhere) and they retreated until the new Emperor's policy was known. Mons Graupius is a mountain, but no one is certain which one. Interestingly, I read that a later historian misread or mis-spelled Graupius as Grampius, which is where the name Grampians comes from.
@@roas2 exactly. I was looking for someone to point that out.
@@pseudonymousbeing987 I wouldn't say the Scots won. It's just that the Romans saw so little value in conquering Scotland that they left it alone.
@@redhermit1148
Exactly, we got em with our genius tactics and daring strategy. Look like shit so they don't even want to come, much less see.
Damn I wish this dude was my uncle or Grandpa or something. Imagine growing up with GRRM as a relative.
He'd tell you the entire Red Wedding chapter before you sleep every night
"Grandpa, tell me a story for good night."
"OK, just give me 7 years."
"Grandad tell me a story."
*Tucks kid into bed and softly starts playing Rains of Castermere*
He would have you right a book series about a parallel universe of his Westeros
@@panda4247 10 😢
The way he talks about visiting the wall with his friend and thinking about the Roman soldier, you can hear his natural story telling ability flowing out, it's amazing. I was really taking in what he was saying and getting into it like a proper story.
Tbf most of what he said led into the meaningful moment he had that was inspirational for his fiction and he probably told that story many times. Not knocking his storytelling but I hesitate to call artistry like that “natural”. That shit is intentional and earned.
The wall is his single most fascinating invention in ASOIAF.
What lies beyond?
Why is it needed?
Who built such a massive structure?
Just gets your mind going instantly... No wonder GOT was such an instant success from the pilot onwards
Yeah until Dumb and Dumber fucked it up
Uh, this man wrote the books, nothing to do with that CGI dragon show
@@AverageAlien ... which is based on the books he wrote. Quite a bit to do with that "CGI dragon show", as it turns out.
@@DelayedJet no, it isn't, not past season 5
@@AverageAlien Original comment was talking about the Wall. The Wall is in the show and the books.
The Hadrian wall is super impressive. It forced every invader to put a hand on it and hop over it. Such a great accomplishment.
A jest, I hope, ahah
Tbf, it used to be taller and have large ditches on both sides of the wall. And it was also manned.
@@karltanner3953 I know, but the way it currently looks is funny.
@@karltanner3953 That, plus it halted everything besides a scouting party from crossing quickly, which gave the people behind the wall time to prepare and reinforce instead of being overrun.
He was having a chat with his buddy Donald one night after a few too many beers.
"We'll build a wall! And we'll make the Others pay for it!"
Hah
#valeriawasaninsidejob
Your trump derangement syndrome is showing
They're bringing wights. They're bringing ice spiders. And some, I assume are good people.
But it’s for the realm though !
I'd like to see a video game set in Westeros/Essos but they'd have to do it RIGHT. Walking up to the wall would look class
Adam Harriis imagine if they did like a gta/red dead redemption style game of thrones video game
That would be amazing, but other than warhorse I don't think I would have faith in any studio to make it
@eoe123321 i wouldnt trust bethseda any more, the other two i can agree with though
Me too, that should be an epic game, so complex!
It would have to be a developer that has a good understanding of the books to get it right.
There’s so much power behind the way he pronounces “wall”.
It’s just a jersey accent lol don’t put too much into it.
It's like "wuulll"
I like the way he says “book”
in contrast to another guy, who says it like out of fear and coweing...
WoaaallllllLLLL
The Wall was actually built on a set just north of Belfast, northern Ireland. I drove past the set on a tour, wasn't a GoT tour or anything, the driver just pointed it out while we were driving. I guess they've dismantled it now like they did with our hopes and dreams for season 8 but still was preety cool to catch a glimpse of it while it was up..
Wait why would they actually build a wall or was it a miniature version they scaled up?
@@maomaeramnon3870 It was a big-ass wall. Not to scale, but not a small miniature either.
@@maomaeramnon3870 pretty sure its CGI...
Even the way he answers sounds like a book. All well narrated and you can actually picture what it was like just like his books
GOT is mostly British history and influence with magical and fictional additions
Most of GOT is based around the war of the roses... two royal families vying for the throne of England. The Lancasters and the Yorks. (Lannisters and starks)
Butthole Surfer but mostly Britain. I mean that’s not very hard to see
@Butthole Surfer lol it's pretty much mostly british
watch this
ruclips.net/video/Odw3Nxdqq4o/видео.html
George himself talks about it, it is very interesting
@Butthole Surfer so you're actually contradicting George R R Martin himself, who says it is mainly based on British history? How stupid do you have to be to say that the actual author himself doesnt know what his books are about? The state of you.
@Butthole Surfer
You said that it is mostly European, not so much British. You then contradictorily agreed with a statement that it is mostly British, and that it has some international elements.
How about you just respectfully admit that you are wrong? I didn't read anybody expressing that there are no elements from other countries.
I used to live in Newcastle and would often drive up to the wall. It's beautiful up there, especially when it's quiet. Can imagine how a place could inspire the such a place as the ice wall.
Being born in Newcastle and being raised in Wallsend up until I was 7 (named as it was the end of Hadrians wall) I must say it feels really cool to know that the tiny part of the world where I grew up is inspiration for one of the biggest and most known TV shows in history!
@@osamaobama293 : Ha true. It's a fuckn poo hole though isn't it :-P
@@THE-BUNKEN-DRUM from Battle Hill to South Shields 😂😂
@@osamaobama293 : Gan on son! Sand dancer mesel. To be honest mate the whole of the North East is Gods country 0:)
The Romans also built the Antonine Wall, made of earth, beyond Hadrian's Wall at the narrowest point in Scotland during the reign of Hadrian's successor Antoninus Pius, and several forts beyond that in the Scottish Highlands. But they couldn't hold any of those fortifications for very long and soon retreated back to Hadrian's Wall.
Thare is a wee bit made oot o' brick tae and it runs richt in frunt o' ma hoose
@@sham7305 that's your garden wall.
lets just clarify it would have been due to expense of upkeep and little gained not that they couldnt hold it with force
@@jnes624 they couldn't hold it with force either the wall had a small garrison not a whole legion defending it since it was more of a border and watchpost thats why it isnt very tall and why picts were able to climb it
@@jnes624 have you never heard of the ninth legion? Cause that was a pretty big factor in the end of it all. They never had a ninth legion again it was kinda like the Roman Titanic
Got to love the irony of a (now) three foot wall inspiring a seven hundred foot wall of ice.
Eventually the white walkers will pay for that wall.
The people didnt support the military enough. The white Walker caravans stormed it and blew it up
Antonine wall is the most northerly wall of the Roman Empire, the Picts (natives of Scotland) kept attacking the wall so they retreated back to Hadrians wall after 8 years (but some also say they retreated because empire antonine died). There is a lot more forts along Antonine wall and evidence of mine pits as they used forts along the wall to fend off the Picts (natives of Scotland), you can visit the forts today and see where the wall is built. Antonine wall in just above the latitude of Glasgow and Edinburgh so a great distance north from Hadrian's wall.
That day... Humanity remembered
ah, i was searching this show's reference.
0:24 - 0:26
*Don't say it, please don't say it.
"THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID"
Underrated comment man, very nice
Michael Hayes if it was 2006 maybe
Spooky Boyy
We’re all humans dude it’s a bit of fun ❤️
Same lol
Was looking for this comment
Make Westeros Great Again!
😂😂😂😂 Funniest thing I've read all day! Keep the Wight Walkers out!🤣🤣🤣🤣
MWGA-aaaahhhhhhh, it's gonna be fantaaaastiiiiic
Bigggg wall with a big beautiful door?
That's why there are dragons and giants
God I love this man so much! In this interview, he is literally watching the sunset atop Hadrian's Wall as he speaks to the interviewer, who is there, on the wall with him.
0:48 Lisa Tulla sounds a lot like Lysa Tully
Probably no coincidence.
“I’m a fucking genius, that’s how.”
*anytime someone asks RR how he came up with something
Build a wall and make the Wildlings pay for it.
I’m proud of myself for knowing it was hadrians wall for the inspiration. It makes a lot of sense. Cool that he actually saw it though
"This is really big, and really impressive."
SHE'S TALKING ABOUT THE WALL.
child humour
yeah, definitely not your sense of humor...for this kind of interview...
@@BlueEyes-WhiteDrag0n So? 67 people enjoyed it no reason to demeaning...
@@BlueEyes-WhiteDrag0n somebody got a really small one here. We’re all on to you Blue eyes ;)
(Ps.: love that you have the most childish name here)
Ive got another great idea. what if we put a hole in the wall and put glass in it. I call it "the window"
J this comment reminds me of a carry on film joke.
And lets put another hole in the wall, for genitalia to behold the glory awaiting them on the other side. I'm stuck on a name though.
Rattenhoofd it would be a glorious hole.
You cant do that there are titans inside
@@suyashmallik118 Nice reference, but i dont think anyone here knows it source ;p
my dad made a good point about the wall: if its 700 feet tall then why are the mountains behind and around it not towering over it? Wouldn't you be able to see far beyond the wall if you stood high near the peaks of the mountain range to the south west of it? Realistically the mountains would be a lot taller than 700 feet.
@Ali Yaser what
I’m a little late but. If you ever reach the peak of a mountain you cannot look past the horizon due to the clouds and fog especially north of the wall where it is always cold and foggy and windy and perhaps no one was smart enough to try
All in all, it's just another ice cube in The Wall, though...
Wobble King clever
Rip
I was so overwhelmed by it's sheer immensity, I had to pop myself a beer.
The one thing I am proud of being scottish for is our defiance and the repelling of roman conquerers
I'm not a patriot, in any way, but it is a noble bit of history I enjoy to tie myself to
GRRM: Hadrian’s wall inspired me.
China: Am I a joke to you?
its what inspired him...that's his story....
If anyone wants to ride the real lift along the wall, you can.
Late 70s, Martin lived in Dubuque Iowa and taught at Clarke College here. We have an elevator along a bluff that was an inspiration for the left along the wall.
Dubuque | George R.R. Martin
ruclips.net/video/GOi0O0KNN1k/видео.html
Considering they filmed a large amount in northern ireland it's surprising that they didn't film any footage at the cliffs of moher down south
I liked how the interviewer injected the pragmatic issue of melting when he was waxing comedic about a would be tourist attraction. Now he must realize his folly, thanks yo her
We are not wildlings, we are the free folk!!
I love grrm video content sections. they're so witty and funny.
I’ve loved this song ever since it was released, it was totally different to anything else around. I still love it, but have you heard the Tori Amos version? It’s kept a lot of what 10cc created but added a whole new sinister world to it. Give it a listen, you may be surprised.
When we do become independent I want George to come over and be our first president and build that wall.
The wall that is located fully in England most of which is nowhere near the Anglo Scottish border.
Who says Scotland is becoming independent?Nicola?🙄
This is really big, and really impressive.
-That's literally what she said
I wonder if there was also a little bit of the Wall of Nessus from "The Book of the News Sun", by Gene Wolfe...an amazing set of books.
His wall had magic and it still got broken down 😩
It got broken down by magic.
By the time of Hadrian's wall there were Germanic & Gaul & celt roman soldiers by then too
some of these comments, why there's always have to be an alternative suggestion., why not China's wall, why not Berlin wall....its a source of his inspiration, sometimes seeing it, traveling to it, experiencing it, mAke it stick to your head than a picture youve just seen....Ive only been to Boston once, for 4 days. but the experience stuck to me, after more than a decade is still strong, compared to the Grand Canyon, which Ive seen numerous times but only in pictures...how do you make a story out of that...
"We're going to build a wall and make the wildlings pay for it!"
haha trump jokes..
Attack on Titans with GoT easter egg would be cool lol
Wonderful story. Wonderful man.
Some trouble keeping it from melting? Here? No, we'd have the trouble if we wanted it to melt.
0:25 i cant be the only one thinking what im thinking
I bet Joffrey got the Wildlings to pay for the Wall XD
FIRE AND BLOOD!!
Not sure the interviewer knew he was joking about Scotland building an Ice Wall... "might have trouble stopping it from melting"
I would make a big wall and I would pay for it - Bran the builder probably
It's made of ice and it is kind of cool.
These ads are getting ridiculous. 1 before the video, some in the middle, then another at the very end
you can google and download adblock in 15 seconds.
Or you can continue to waste your time and support the creators.
You want me on that wall, you need me on that wall!
I like the idea that the built the wall without knowing the White Walkers or giants existed yet but they just had a bad vibe. 😄
Those Scotts are just like Wildlings
Walls do work. Sure, some raiding parties might get through but it will stop the Mance Rayder's army.
Keep building the wall!
0:24 that's what she said
Mr Martin bring down this Wall
Good he wrote this in the nineties.. if he had written this after 2000 donald trump would have claimed this was his idea.
Best way to write good fiction is to study history
Living in England we've had the wall to keep out the wildlings for years... Hasn't worked but we try!
As a Scot I would be quite happy to consider myself one of the free folk north of the wall (hadrians wall) the only thing is we still need to win our freedom.
Gogg and maggog
BUILD THAT WAL.. oh shit wrong video
He travelled forward in time and saw Attack on Titan.
I always wanted to know that.
watch a video of GRRM, get an ad of GoT Conquest, thanks youtube very cool
I will wait
You know the weird thing about the wall in the North. The wildlings pay for it, in someways
"Lets build two walls. One in fiction, one in the real world."
_you know, I was listening to Trump one day_
Guillermo del Toro's Doppelganger.
An don't forget England's 'wars of the roses' !
This sounds similar to the black gate, which is operated by rangers who defended it against the evils of Mordor. At least I think so... Don't attack if I'm wrong. please.
Audio... should be audible...
I would sooner face the Army of the Dead than an army of Picts
Actually It was Andriano who built this wall, an emperor from Hispalis (currently Seville, Spain). And then, thousands years after, they have shooted the last espisode from the 7th season. That when they bring the whitewalker in front of Cersei the Queen...in Sevilla. Those are the remains of the ancient city of Italica, in particular the ancient Roman Circus of Italica, 40 km away from the mentioned capital city of the Andalusian region in Spain.
Next Trump interview: "how Trump came up with the idea of "the wall"."
Newcastle is Winterfell confirmed
Love grrm genius
and we’re gonna make the wildlings pay for it
A frozen wall? Is he sure that he didn't use some of my past dates as an inspiration?
Not to be too picky but the wall would be the Antonine wall in Scotland if you look at the map of Westeros the north is Scotland basically and the wall in got and The Antonine wall it further north... sorry for the geek out it’s still the same idea the Romans built it just a different wall 😂
Interestingly, before I read the book and watched the show, I had a similar idea, inspired by the Hadrian's Wall as well.
A large stone wall with godly wards that kept the armies of Darkness away from it.
Well, TBH, GRRM has molded my story so much that now what was called the "Alliance Watchers' Guild" became just "The Watchers' Guild" and is now a decaying body, instead of a great, grand army.
I thought that it was his inspiration. A wall in the north and a capital in the south. Basically England.
The wall is actually the ice wall that circles the flat earth
Hahaha let's go see it and fly over
Need 2 build wall
Dude this interviewer does a great work
The truth is, he was drunk off his ass at a Lil Jon concert in Detroit, when he got to "...To with windows... to the wall!" and he went, "Hey, wait a minute..." True story. I was there that night working stage security.
Why even bother lying in a RUclips comment section?
+biodude Dude, I said right above that was a TRUE STORY.
JBTechCon the fact you know lil' Jon lyrics sums you up entirely.
Oh yeah, Self Righteous Jerk? Well you're a self righ-- Oh. Nevermind.
JBTechCon nice, lol.
Walls work.
Unless they have a Dragon.
I knew it!!!!!!!!!!!
Maria, rose ,sina...
Hadrian's Wall + Great Wall Of China + French Foreign Legion?
The sound (volume) is very low.