I'm sure it took him a long time to name them. Now in book 6, a majority of the characters that will be present in the series have already been named, so at least we know that's not what's delaying him I guess?
nasser wiz the difference is making them work with language. remembering who is who and where they are. keeping character traits and everything for each one. not just naming and going but building a whole person.
@nasser wiz He literally said the name influences how he writes about a character. I'm not a GOT fan, but it's clear that he puts a lot of thought into pretty much everything that he writes, which is why he's still writing the series
@@SSC0002 No he doesn't. He never tried to hide that he conjured up the names for far-off lands either out of his ass or from Lovecraft. He made the wall 700ft tall not realizing how freakishingly and absurdly ginormous it would be until he saw it in the show.
@J K I don't think he found true financial success until GOT and the shows. He can now enjoy the fruits of his long labors and I imagine it's hard to scale back to what it takes to write to the detail he does. I don't think he 'owes' me anything as a fan, but I would just like to enter that world again.
everyone: "try to avoid giving your characters names that begin with the same letter" GRRM the abosulte madlad: Godrick, Godwyn, Godfrey, Godefroy, Radagon, Rennala, Ranni, Renna, Radahn, Rickard, Marika, Mohg, Morgott, Margit, Malenia, Miquella, Maliketh, Millicent, Melina
This made my attempts to understand the story basically impossible. I could not for the life of me(and still can't) remember who was Godrick and who Godfrey. When the other G's came into the mix I gave up completely. More of less the same with the other letters.
@@josequiles7430 which is why the other 2 words after the name comes in handy, Gordrick the grafted is the first demigod you kill, Godfrey is the first elden lord who appears much later in the video game, Godwyn the golden is the demigod who died in the night of the knives.
@@josequiles7430 just in case you don't wanna read all Dat godrick is a loser who steals people's body parts to get strong and Godfrey is an giant axe welding barbarian who was also a king once and is very strong Godrick is a descendent of Godfrey first elden lord he was the runt of the litter most likely born with birth defects making him weak and insecure which lead to his abuse of grafting, a sort of looked down on magic practice that allows you to graft other peoples body parts onto yourself to make you stronger hes a coward who insulted malenia another demigod and then proceeded to kiss her feet after she put him in his place, he then fled the capitalof leyndell after running of with stolen treasures, godrick is a spineless coward, Godfrey is a warrior barbarian who believes the right to be king is decided by strength and has two sons morgott (I'd you've played the game you probably hate this guy) and mohg both cursed to be omen a sort of birth defect that originally was seen as a blessing but now is looked on as a curse because of a change in religion, he killed the storm king someone of great power and committed a mass genocide on the giants because they had the power to burn the erdtree, he and his warriors were then sent away to get stronger and die then when they are needed they would be revived and tasked with becoming elden lord and killing a god
Im especially impressed by the Targaryan naming system. Because in history certain Dynasties has occuring themes in their names and for the Targaryan ones there are so many names who all look like they belong together. You have the Aegon, Jaehaerys, Viserys, Deamon, Rheagar, Dearon, Aerys. I fucking love that. Also having characters like Tywinn, Tyrion, Tytos just make sense there were like 20 fucking Louis's of France, if there is one think that nobles like more than waging war on each other its naming their kids after themselves and GoT reflects that perfectly. Every house should have their own flavor of naming to them because it gives character to that house and in extent its members.
The idea of naming your heir after yourself stems from transferring the “good” of your leadership onto their rule. Equally as vain, but not necessarily for the reason of “I love myself so much I’ll name my son the same thing”
like the freys who name every male "walder" hoping that would please 90 year old walder and that they inherit the Twin Towers once the 90 year old dies. lol
@@theforevermachine r u serious kids aren’t going to make fun of someone named Daenerys. It’s the parents that watch the show not the kids. Their too young to understand the show and by the time their all grown up they won’t even know where the name originated from. First of all that’s a dope name and this is a fictional story it’s not like their being named Adolf Hitler ( someone whose taught to have been a evil character in history) stop being a snowflake I would wear that name proud if I was a woman
true. my theory is that he wanted to maintain an outward appearance of respect for tyrion because he thought Tyrion would destroy his house, so he tried to make him seem as proper of a lannister as possible and kept his contempt for his son private. in the books especially you realize people are fooled and think Tyrion is as loved and privileged as the rest
Dwarfism manifests later in life , you can never guess if a newborn child will be a dwarf or not , so he couldn't possibly know so he named him Tyrion thinking of him as Jamie -2
This type of reactions in a social interaction happen when we don't give a fuck but we force ourselves to react to not be seen like we don't give a fuck. It's basic everyone does that. It is clear that this lady has either concentration problem/don't give a damn shit about what G.R.R.M is, saying. Sorry if my english is bad i'm french but i think it's still understandable.
@@Elkaster1 She's on her job, after all. Not everyone likes their job, and those who do, don't necessarily like every person they get to meet during their job. She's on set, doing her job as best she can. That's more than can be said of many people. Give her a break, people.
Thank you, however I did notice some first men houses dont really fit into that role entirly. House Dustin for example seems more of an Andal name than a First Man one
Those are the facial expressions and gestures of a person who is not listening to a word but wants to look like she is. She just seemed distracted and wanted to look interested.
Naming the characters is one of the most significant parts of the writing process. It gives them an identity as potentially real people and not simple assets for the narrative. I understand why George takes so much care in choosing character names, and I wish I had that ability. Instead, I do what he described the other writer was doing, except I use descriptors as placeholders instead of numbers, since they reflect some of their personality better than an arbitrary tag. Among my unnamed characters, I have: Dipshit, Pizza Face, Goth Chick, Goth Gal, Linguist, Sniper, Duke Nukem, MILF, Bastard, Granola, Dirty Dan, Blonde, Child 1, Child 2, Amazon Prime, Dickhead, Fuckboy, Deadpool, Weeb... Makes writing serious scenes a bit more difficult, but speeds up the drafting process and leaves more time for the naming.
The comments on this video: 70% About interviewers expressions 24% Claims interviewer is not a lizard person but human 5% Other miscellaneous comments about interviewer 1% about names.
I like the realistic approach to character naming, I think it not only creates a sense of realism, but it is also a great way of explaining character origins, relations, and history. Like, for example, at the Twins, there's countless descendants of Walder Frey who are al named either Walder or Walda (for girls), because the Freys are all sniveling sycophants trying to earn praise from their lord. Or like how all Ned Starks children are named after men who were important to him and that he loved, Robb after Robert Baratheon, Jon after Jon Arryn, Brandon "Bran" after Brandon Stark, Ned's older brother (in addition to Brandon being a classic Stark name), and Rickon after Rickard, his father. I would be willing to bet that if he had had a couple more sons, there'd be a Benjin/Ben as well as a Howland. Actually, how badass would that be? A Stark named after Howland Reed, "The Howling Direwolf of Winterfell"
@@landofthehazymist in the family tree of starks in the world of ice and fire there is actually a couple of Arya's and Sansa's in the stark family tree. Great grandmother's and great aunt's. That sort of thing. Honestly I'm surprised he didn't name Sansa or Arya Lyanna Stark. Due to how close ned was with his sister.
now i know why elden ring has names like: melania melina merika morgot margit millicent mohg radagon radahn rykard renna ranni rennalla godrick godfrey if i had a dime every time i confused melina and melania and radahn and radagon...
I imagine her eye's blinking sounding like Squidward's walk sound. Also immediately after she laughs, I swear i could hear the Windows XP's closing sound. I'm sure Zuckerburgs sister is a nice person though.
@@Tempusverum You can always work on your self-awareness skills. Filming yourself interacting with others helps a ton, and this is what many actors, comedians etc do when they're starting out
@@publiusventidiusbassus1232 I'm named for my grandfather, but one of my uncles is literally a junior of that grandfather, so I'm named for him too. My father is a junior, and he wanted me to be a third. There's literally another person with the same first and last name as me in my own hometown, though he's like 40 years older and we're not related. Given the email address I was assigned in college, I was the 7th person with the same first-last name combo to attend. I've looked it up, and there are over a dozen people who share my whole name, middle included, in the US alone. One Summer as a kid, the place where we took swimming lessons one year had 4 other Richards in my class alone. We all had to go by different variations to differentiate: Richard, Richie, Ricky, Rich, and we used the last name of the last guy. I had never met any of them before that Summer, and I don't think I ever saw any of them ever again after. How many James/Jim/Jimmy's, John/Jon/Jonathan's, William/Will/Bill's, or Joseph/Joe/Joey's are there in the world? I definitely graduated HS with multiples of each of those names. Same with Kelly/Kelley and Kaitlyn/Kaitlin/Caitlin. There were even 2 Siobhans, and I'm in the US, not the UK. It's only realistic for people to share names.
@@tichondriusstormrage The 2nd R in George RR Martin is Richard... Edit: I don't think I was ever notified about your comment... 4 years? Wow I feel old.
GREETINGS FELLOW HUMANS. I CAN ALSO LAUGH WITH MY HUMAN MOUTH. HAHAHAHA I'M LAUGHING SO HARD MY HUMAN TAIL IS GETTING CRAMPS. HAHAHA (PSST. HUMANS DON'T HAVE THOSE) NEVERMIND.
I feel like GRRM almost went there in a bit where he is like "I'm worried about all these little girls called Daenerys" but then he smoothly goes into "....which is a really hard-to-write name"
When George mentioned the Stark and Lannister naming conventions were proper family customs, it made me wonder why Jaime wasn't the one named Tyrion. With Robb I just explained it away as Ned honoring Robert, since he was born around the end of the rebellion. But I'm not sure why Tywin waited with Tyrion. My guess is he resented the naming convention since his father was so weak, and planned to put an end to it. But he used it on his last son as a punishment for "killing" his mother.
The Ty- thing isn’t super strong in the Lannister family. There’s, Jason, Gerion, Lancel, and Kevan Lannister. Also Jaime was a twin and I don’t think there are female Ty- named Lannisters.
At first I was all, "OH MY GOSH THE LAUGH IS SO ANNOYING!" Then I realized she's probably totally fangirling and trying to listen and pay attention but inside her head she's going "OHMYGOSHOHMYGOSH I'M ON THE SAME STAGE AS HIM AND TALKING TO HIM DON'T BE WEIRD ACT NORMAL!" and totally failing at it because she's so nervous and awestruck. Or maybe I'm projecting how I would be if I were sitting chatting to him. IDK.
^ It actually does mean that. Davos was the first in his family to be elevated in his status at all, by Stannis, and in the process of becoming a lord he was able to make his own house. He didn't know what to call it but as he was a smuggler and someone who was worthy of the sea, so to speak, he comes up with the name rather abruptly as I recall it. But no he was POOR growing up, he grew up in one of the worst basically "ghettos" in Westeros. Flea Bottom, in King's Landing. He was only given the title by Stannis after successfully defending one of the Baratheon castles prior to the events of the show but Stannis also took a few knuckles from his as well for his previous acts as a smuggler. As for his Dad though, his Dad was so common I wouldn't be surprised if he doesn't even have a first name. Forget a last one, though. That was all Davos.
That fake laugh is so distracting and many more things! In the original 1 hour plus video the comment section has been disabled thanks to that laugh!!!
Dickon was once a very common name, especially in northern England. "The Secret Garden" was published in 1910 but is still one of the most popular children's stories ever written, and one of the main characters is called Dickon. It's kind of like Richard: people shortened it to Dick, and then Dick became slang for male genitalia, and thenceforth life sucked for all the innocent Richards out there just trying to stay under the radar. Manwoody is still a pretty damn ridiculous to pair with any variation of Dick, though.
One of the keys also, which he did as well C.S. Lewis and Brian Jacques is to make character names which you would never hear in real life, but names that still sound plausible and natural. For example, Sansa. That's not a name you would ever hear, or Tyrion, and Tywin, yet throw in something slightly familiar like Margaery etc. That makes the characters even more relatable somehow.
How to create a name in the ASOIAF universe: when not giving them normal names (Jon, Robert, Brandon, Gregor and so forth) simply take a common name and change two or three letters. Edward = Eddard Circe = Cersei Jamie = Jaime Jeffrey = Joffrey Marcella = Myrcella Thomas = Tommen Kevin = Kevan Peter = Petyr Lance = Lancel Stanley = Stannis Samuel = Samwell Ramsay = Ramsey Margery = Margaery Richard = Rickard, Rickon and Dickon Benjamin (Benji) = Benjen Darius = Daario etc. Is that starting to become obvious? Well, then just throw some randomly exotic names in the mix.
i write campaigns for d&d and it's super fun to just write a bunch of fantasy sounding names at once and then assigning them later. i usually start off with parts of a word or sound and build off it like one character i have,"cloufrid" is just cloud and fridge
I'm currently writing a novel that I hope will turn into a series of novels. For my names, I simply use a name generator. For character names, I'm using old Celtic names as I feel those kinds of names fit with the vibe of the novel's setting
I love this look of naming the characters. I am more into stories that are based in long ago times. People back then were very much name after their fathers. My family still does this and our middle names are all after other family members and my brother is a Jr.
It's funny how George is explaining everything and the lady keeps looking at the camera trying to keep a straight face to prevent her face from showing disinterest, she was clearly not caring about the details of what George was talking about and was just trying to get through the interview.
When the cam looks at her or when the mic picks up her voice, that would be me. Just totally enthralled. Such a charmed speaker. As always, bravo George. So down to earth yet so far beyond in terms of success.
I think seaworth was made for him by stannis. I may be wrong but I don't think Davos ever had two names as a smuggler, and after his aid at the siege at storms end Stannis named him a lord and since lords must have two names gave him the name seaworth.
@yung turt You are correct about all of the stuff you said in your first comment. Davos often refers to himself as “Davos of Flea Bottom” because he didn’t have a surname prior to becoming the Onion Knight and Stannis giving him his choice of a surname. He also is nicknamed Davos Halfhand.
I know it's not professional by any means but if I were speaking with a mind like this I would probably be laughing uncontrollably at anything he says out of nervousness.
She does her job so smoothly that people find nothing else to do besides criticise meaningless bullshit, like its perfectly acceptable not to like fantasy books, if she does her job well thats it.
There are many ways to approach naming. I quite enjoy making names on the spot, based on sound, and revising them from there. Another alternative is making a list, based on nationality, race, species, so on, and giving these names based on these variables. These methods work very well together if you don't mind putting all the work at the end.
Sauron and Saurumon is a fascinating case of characters having similar names purely because of the linguistic depth behind the story. (pronunciation is also a factor in that case)
Her laugh...it sounds so similar it just helped me diagnose a rattling sound in my truck. Same laugh also made me want to drive that fixed truck into a river with a scratch and sniff sticker on the floor board....then proceed to scratch AND sniff that sticker....while still underwater.
The only advice I have for naming sibling characters or real life siblings is to do what my parents did: give all their names different sounding endings. The reason for this is when someone calls out your name, often you only hear the end part of a name. So my name is Amanda but if you call out, "Daaaaaaaa!" I'll show up assuming I was called. For example my siblings and I are: Aman-da, Dan-iel, Nata-lie, Jilli-an. For my written character siblings names I wanted them all to have names starting with E because triplets and twins run in their family/race and having single child births are less common. But for my characters it's a single birth eldest child and then brother and sister twins but their parents decided to continue with E names. Elwyn, Everett and Everly.
I knew a pair of identical twins in school growing up that were called Morgan and Megan, reading this is making me wonder if they ever had problems with being confused when trying to hear their names.
“Don’t give characters names that start with the same letter” That would be hard if I use my father’s family as inspiration. All 9 of his siblings start with the same letter.
Some of the name in GOT are very similar to Persian names! some a bit modified and some exactly the same name! , Shireen, Arslan, Arya, Rhaegar (Negar) and so many other names that can't remember now!
1:53 Thank you George for the naming in Elden Ring, it totally make sense why it is so easy to understand and remember: Radagon, Radahn, Rykard, Ranni, Renna, Renala Godfrey, Godwyn, Godefroy, Gorick, Marika, Mohh, Morgott, Margit, Malenia, Miquella, Maliketh, Millicent, Melina Fortissax, Lansseax, Placidusax, Granssax,
Me trying to come up names for my characters in stories. Put random letters or put words together until I hear something that I find nice enough to fit my ears.
I'm with Mr. Martin on this one, I too can't write a story unless I at least have an idea for character names, even if I do later change a character name or two down the road for whatever reason. Growing up, I often came up with nicknames for pets and other animals based on wordplay, like my family had a Rottweiler named Kemo and I came up with nicknames for him like Kemosabe, Kemotherapy, and Kemogloblin. So if I could come up with clever nicknames then I could create character names through trial and error.
KTChamberlain Interesting. I do that with my characters too, but only the ones with complicated and/or long names that are hard to pronounce(so...a lot of them, lol).
Let's just say I respect her question.. Quite an underrated one and a one I'd like to hear about, but yes, she's a bit too giggly which isn't a rare trait, should've maybe had her mic volume lowered a bit, just my 50c though :)
Makes you realize how much work he put into the novels when it takes that much effort just to name your characters
I'm sure it took him a long time to name them. Now in book 6, a majority of the characters that will be present in the series have already been named, so at least we know that's not what's delaying him I guess?
nasser wiz the difference is making them work with language. remembering who is who and where they are. keeping character traits and everything for each one. not just naming and going but building a whole person.
@nasser wiz He literally said the name influences how he writes about a character. I'm not a GOT fan, but it's clear that he puts a lot of thought into pretty much everything that he writes, which is why he's still writing the series
@@SSC0002 No he doesn't. He never tried to hide that he conjured up the names for far-off lands either out of his ass or from Lovecraft. He made the wall 700ft tall not realizing how freakishingly and absurdly ginormous it would be until he saw it in the show.
@J K I don't think he found true financial success until GOT and the shows. He can now enjoy the fruits of his long labors and I imagine it's hard to scale back to what it takes to write to the detail he does. I don't think he 'owes' me anything as a fan, but I would just like to enter that world again.
everyone: "try to avoid giving your characters names that begin with the same letter"
GRRM the abosulte madlad: Godrick, Godwyn, Godfrey, Godefroy, Radagon, Rennala, Ranni, Renna, Radahn, Rickard, Marika, Mohg, Morgott, Margit, Malenia, Miquella, Maliketh, Millicent, Melina
To be fair, that's probably mostly on Miyazaki. He's been doing it since Gwyn.
based GRRM naming the main characters after his initials
This made my attempts to understand the story basically impossible. I could not for the life of me(and still can't) remember who was Godrick and who Godfrey. When the other G's came into the mix I gave up completely. More of less the same with the other letters.
@@josequiles7430 which is why the other 2 words after the name comes in handy, Gordrick the grafted is the first demigod you kill, Godfrey is the first elden lord who appears much later in the video game, Godwyn the golden is the demigod who died in the night of the knives.
@@josequiles7430
just in case you don't wanna read all Dat
godrick is a loser who steals people's body parts to get strong
and Godfrey is an giant axe welding barbarian who was also a king once and is very strong
Godrick is a descendent of Godfrey first elden lord he was the runt of the litter most likely born with birth defects making him weak and insecure which lead to his abuse of grafting, a sort of looked down on magic practice that allows you to graft other peoples body parts onto yourself to make you stronger hes a coward who insulted malenia another demigod and then proceeded to kiss her feet after she put him in his place, he then fled the capitalof leyndell after running of with stolen treasures, godrick is a spineless coward, Godfrey is a warrior barbarian who believes the right to be king is decided by strength and has two sons morgott (I'd you've played the game you probably hate this guy) and mohg both cursed to be omen a sort of birth defect that originally was seen as a blessing but now is looked on as a curse because of a change in religion, he killed the storm king someone of great power and committed a mass genocide on the giants because they had the power to burn the erdtree, he and his warriors were then sent away to get stronger and die then when they are needed they would be revived and tasked with becoming elden lord and killing a god
George RR Martin: *breathes
Lady: HAHAHAHAAHAHHAAHAHA
Gerge
@@floga10 where? 😎
Literally wanted to gag her to stop fucking laughing
She must be flayed!
Her vagina was very wet cuz georgie is such a fat artist hehehehehehehehhaaahajhuuhuuhuh
99% comments conclude that the interviewer is Terminator
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She's super annoying 👺
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yeah she does do that like a robot :D
Lol
why did we keep getting all these reaction shots of her sayin nowt an cacklin'!? made my skin crawl
I checked the comments just to see if someone made fun of her for that yet.
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Im especially impressed by the Targaryan naming system. Because in history certain Dynasties has occuring themes in their names and for the Targaryan ones there are so many names who all look like they belong together. You have the Aegon, Jaehaerys, Viserys, Deamon, Rheagar, Dearon, Aerys. I fucking love that.
Also having characters like Tywinn, Tyrion, Tytos just make sense there were like 20 fucking Louis's of France, if there is one think that nobles like more than waging war on each other its naming their kids after themselves and GoT reflects that perfectly. Every house should have their own flavor of naming to them because it gives character to that house and in extent its members.
*Targaryen. Daemon. Rhaegar. Daeron. Tywin.
The idea of naming your heir after yourself stems from transferring the “good” of your leadership onto their rule.
Equally as vain, but not necessarily for the reason of “I love myself so much I’ll name my son the same thing”
Well that's nothing, in roman times names were inherited not given
like the freys who name every male "walder" hoping that would please 90 year old walder and that they inherit the Twin Towers once the 90 year old dies. lol
Then there's Jaime. Makes no sense.
Anyone noticed how Ned (GRRM) named Jon and Robb after Robert Baratheon and Jon Arryn? Two men he felt closely related to, i just did lol
Khalil El Fakhri I didn’t know there was a time frame in which I had to find out
Jay Amezcua at least you did. Many don't know who tf is Lord Jon Arryn lol
Jay Amezcua yes
Jay Amezcua yep! And Jon and Ned both named their first sons after Robert
Yes, I noticed that with the initial introduction of each character.
We're all waiting for the new character in "winds of winter", he's gonna be called, "Freddard Stark"
Or Nedward 🤣
Nedaerys Targarathister
@@Peter_File69 sounds like one he would use
@@Peter_File69 Mike Tyson trying to speak High Valyrian
That's Xfreddard Stark
Imagine what those mothers that named there kid Daenerys are thinking right now after what happened in S8 Ep 5
@@theforevermachine Bruh I wished I was named Daenerys lmao.
@@theforevermachine fr who in their right mind would ruin a kids life because they like a show lol like grow up
@@theforevermachine r u serious kids aren’t going to make fun of someone named Daenerys. It’s the parents that watch the show not the kids. Their too young to understand the show and by the time their all grown up they won’t even know where the name originated from. First of all that’s a dope name and this is a fictional story it’s not like their being named Adolf Hitler ( someone whose taught to have been a evil character in history) stop being a snowflake I would wear that name proud if I was a woman
@@theforevermachine "kid can be vicious" u sound traumatized
@@theforevermachine wow you love adverbs you should be a writer. absolutely horrendously?
Who's hyped for Fred in The Winds of Winter?
Freddard Stark😂
Frederys Targaryan
The Fred
Still waiting on Winds of Winter
Ser Fredrick Targaryen
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haha grrm sounds like a mysthical wanderer of a fantasy film passing by the woods hahaha
where is that
HOTS Diablo Channel it’s just a dramatization haha
0:39 OMG that head tilt was so scary 😂😂😂 whoever is playing with her control panel, please stop!
Laniakea -000- 😬
And the eyes
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Ive seen other ppl move like that suddenly ngl but yeah keep that in a horror movie where it belongs
It's kind of weird that Tywin named his first born male Jamie and his dwarf child Tyrion. You would think it would be the opposite.
true. my theory is that he wanted to maintain an outward appearance of respect for tyrion because he thought Tyrion would destroy his house, so he tried to make him seem as proper of a lannister as possible and kept his contempt for his son private. in the books especially you realize people are fooled and think Tyrion is as loved and privileged as the rest
Tyrion may have already had a name chosen by his mother before he was born
I don't understand, why would that matter?
Azor ahai,is jaimw
Dwarfism manifests later in life , you can never guess if a newborn child will be a dwarf or not , so he couldn't possibly know so he named him Tyrion thinking of him as Jamie -2
Lady is clearly getting her social interaction lessons from Mark Zuckerberg
haha insane comment
This type of reactions in a social interaction happen when we don't give a fuck but we force ourselves to react to not be seen like we don't give a fuck. It's basic everyone does that. It is clear that this lady has either concentration problem/don't give a damn shit about what G.R.R.M is, saying. Sorry if my english is bad i'm french but i think it's still understandable.
@@Elkaster1 She's on her job, after all. Not everyone likes their job, and those who do, don't necessarily like every person they get to meet during their job. She's on set, doing her job as best she can. That's more than can be said of many people. Give her a break, people.
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Mental health buff here, she's clearly on crontrolled substances (psychiatric drugs) or slightly drunk.
Martin: First men have descriptive names like Stark, Strong, Mud ...
Lady: Seaworth.
As in Davos Seaworth ... the family that is like 20 Years old
I thought the same thing and was about to make a comment
I giggled at that idiocy... 😂
Thank you, however I did notice some first men houses dont really fit into that role entirly. House Dustin for example seems more of an Andal name than a First Man one
I also liked how Martin subtly decided to ignore her comment
@@jamesdooling4139 it's spelled idiocracy*
Those are the facial expressions and gestures of a person who is not listening to a word but wants to look like she is. She just seemed distracted and wanted to look interested.
Exactly
Its social fobia that make her look so robótica, you can see she is not usted to be in front of lots of People
The laugh I do back when I was in retail
She's trying to get the perfect angle for a silent fart
She's ripped hard on _something_ Watch 0:37 without sound, just checking the body language. My guess is ecstasy.
Naming the characters is one of the most significant parts of the writing process. It gives them an identity as potentially real people and not simple assets for the narrative. I understand why George takes so much care in choosing character names, and I wish I had that ability.
Instead, I do what he described the other writer was doing, except I use descriptors as placeholders instead of numbers, since they reflect some of their personality better than an arbitrary tag.
Among my unnamed characters, I have: Dipshit, Pizza Face, Goth Chick, Goth Gal, Linguist, Sniper, Duke Nukem, MILF, Bastard, Granola, Dirty Dan, Blonde, Child 1, Child 2, Amazon Prime, Dickhead, Fuckboy, Deadpool, Weeb... Makes writing serious scenes a bit more difficult, but speeds up the drafting process and leaves more time for the naming.
Tolkien was also a genius at coming up with names that resonate well in the sword and sorcery context.
The money I’d pay to see him and GRRM have a conversation cannot be overstated
he was a linguist after all, coming up with names and words would be a lot easier for him lol
Mmm yes Sauron and Saruman. Quite different and easy to differentiate in a spoken conversation
@@aidanchilton7899 ...they are though?
Tolkien was the only author genius, George Martin is mediocre
Elon Musk probably watched this vid before naming his son
He’s still waiting to decide like that science fiction writer
@@vittovioletcreeper LMFAOOOOO
He didn’t finish it though
If you Google “Faustian bargain”, you get a bunch of stories about having a kid with Elon Musk
🤣🤣
The comments on this video:
70% About interviewers expressions
24% Claims interviewer is not a lizard person but human
5% Other miscellaneous comments about interviewer
1% about names.
And ur comment about the other comments
I like the realistic approach to character naming, I think it not only creates a sense of realism, but it is also a great way of explaining character origins, relations, and history. Like, for example, at the Twins, there's countless descendants of Walder Frey who are al named either Walder or Walda (for girls), because the Freys are all sniveling sycophants trying to earn praise from their lord. Or like how all Ned Starks children are named after men who were important to him and that he loved, Robb after Robert Baratheon, Jon after Jon Arryn, Brandon "Bran" after Brandon Stark, Ned's older brother (in addition to Brandon being a classic Stark name), and Rickon after Rickard, his father. I would be willing to bet that if he had had a couple more sons, there'd be a Benjin/Ben as well as a Howland.
Actually, how badass would that be? A Stark named after Howland Reed, "The Howling Direwolf of Winterfell"
Sansa and Arya are named after his Stark (in Arya's case her namesake Arya Flint married a Stark) ancestors too.
@@landofthehazymist in the family tree of starks in the world of ice and fire there is actually a couple of Arya's and Sansa's in the stark family tree. Great grandmother's and great aunt's. That sort of thing. Honestly I'm surprised he didn't name Sansa or Arya Lyanna Stark. Due to how close ned was with his sister.
Kinda lame how he didnt name Sansa Lyanna
now i know why elden ring has names like:
melania
melina
merika
morgot
margit
millicent
mohg
radagon
radahn
rykard
renna
ranni
rennalla
godrick
godfrey
if i had a dime every time i confused melina and melania and radahn and radagon...
don't forget godefroy
It’s a lot of G’s, R’s, and M’s. Definitely away for him to sign his name into the lore.
@@toastytoast9800 and Godwin
@@photon816 hes already denied
now we’ve got the dlc, and you’ve got rellana and messmer too
Missandei and Milisandre were always confusing to me.
Kris Hammer Oh thank god I was the only one! 😂
@@TheOscarFrancois lol we are not alone my friend.
And what makes it worse cuz they're both fine as hell
Willi six in the books missandei is like 10
@@jackfarns6448 tv show son, tv show
I imagine her eye's blinking sounding like Squidward's walk sound.
Also immediately after she laughs, I swear i could hear the Windows XP's closing sound.
I'm sure Zuckerburgs sister is a nice person though.
Good comment lol
“It’s a robot!”
4:45 the way the robot switches from her happy face to her understanding face makes me giggle
Jonathan Hult so scary
Man I think I do this same shit now I'm worried. When I'm not interested and pretend to be.
Man of Honor [yung turt] it’s a terrifying thought that we can never see ourselves as others see us
@@Tempusverum You can always work on your self-awareness skills. Filming yourself interacting with others helps a ton, and this is what many actors, comedians etc do when they're starting out
she knows how to flirt, bruv
People being named after family members, friends, or other figures is just realistic. It's not as if I'm the only Richard out there.
or aaaare you...?
Does anyone call ya dick?
There's a very common male name in my family that my dad, grandad and several cousins all share.
@@publiusventidiusbassus1232
I'm named for my grandfather, but one of my uncles is literally a junior of that grandfather, so I'm named for him too.
My father is a junior, and he wanted me to be a third.
There's literally another person with the same first and last name as me in my own hometown, though he's like 40 years older and we're not related.
Given the email address I was assigned in college, I was the 7th person with the same first-last name combo to attend.
I've looked it up, and there are over a dozen people who share my whole name, middle included, in the US alone.
One Summer as a kid, the place where we took swimming lessons one year had 4 other Richards in my class alone. We all had to go by different variations to differentiate: Richard, Richie, Ricky, Rich, and we used the last name of the last guy. I had never met any of them before that Summer, and I don't think I ever saw any of them ever again after.
How many James/Jim/Jimmy's, John/Jon/Jonathan's, William/Will/Bill's, or Joseph/Joe/Joey's are there in the world? I definitely graduated HS with multiples of each of those names. Same with Kelly/Kelley and Kaitlyn/Kaitlin/Caitlin. There were even 2 Siobhans, and I'm in the US, not the UK.
It's only realistic for people to share names.
@@tichondriusstormrage
The 2nd R in George RR Martin is Richard...
Edit: I don't think I was ever notified about your comment... 4 years? Wow I feel old.
*I AM A HUMAN*
ok now I'm suspicious...
*HA HA HA HA* GOOD ONE FELLOW GEORGE RR MARTIN
Disagree.
Kakegurui?
GREETINGS FELLOW HUMANS.
I CAN ALSO LAUGH WITH MY HUMAN MOUTH.
HAHAHAHA
I'M LAUGHING SO HARD MY HUMAN TAIL IS GETTING CRAMPS. HAHAHA
(PSST. HUMANS DON'T HAVE THOSE)
NEVERMIND.
is this lady somehow related to jimmy fallon?
tiny lama underrated comment
😊
He has an immense imagination and his books are timeless, Thanks for the upload
Mommy, why did you name me after a mass murderer?
I did not know son. I did not know😔
Mom stopped at season 6. LuL
@Richard Animations I did not have a daughter, okay!
And if life give you lemons, you name your only son Daenerys!
I feel like GRRM almost went there in a bit where he is like "I'm worried about all these little girls called Daenerys" but then he smoothly goes into "....which is a really hard-to-write name"
5:20 I think he almost spoiled it and stopped himself.
"First Men names like Stark, Strong or Mudd"
"SEAWORTH"
Bruh
But xaro xhoan daxos though, cmon George
Sounds like a dish at a chinese restaurant :D
Like, omagad, I know, right?
Not to mention all those Ghiscari names...
That has to be his sense of humor, especially considering the way those characters were introduced.
Or Alayaya, or those Ghiscari names that sound like you’re doing an impression of a bee.
*HAHAHA*
*HAHAHA*
*HAHAHAHAHA*
Yeah, they should switch her off
When George mentioned the Stark and Lannister naming conventions were proper family customs, it made me wonder why Jaime wasn't the one named Tyrion. With Robb I just explained it away as Ned honoring Robert, since he was born around the end of the rebellion. But I'm not sure why Tywin waited with Tyrion. My guess is he resented the naming convention since his father was so weak, and planned to put an end to it. But he used it on his last son as a punishment for "killing" his mother.
Maybe he and the mother agreed beforehand
The Ty- thing isn’t super strong in the Lannister family. There’s, Jason, Gerion, Lancel, and Kevan Lannister. Also Jaime was a twin and I don’t think there are female Ty- named Lannisters.
This man is a great speaker and storyteller. He should write a book.
4:00 she was so psyched to throw an answer in there real quick haha
And that's why Elden ring has Godrick, Godwin, Godfrey and Godefrey. Millicent, Malenia, Melina e Marika
Don't forget rykard, radagon, renny rannala, radahn
I think the interviewer is on some serious drugs😂😂😂😂
GRR: open his mouth to say a word
Interwiever: 😂😂😂😂😂
Gopi Chintala HA HA HA HA HA
Nah she is just not interested and has no clue what he is talking about. Trying to fool everyone with her fake attitude is also very ignorant.
At first I was all, "OH MY GOSH THE LAUGH IS SO ANNOYING!"
Then I realized she's probably totally fangirling and trying to listen and pay attention but inside her head she's going "OHMYGOSHOHMYGOSH I'M ON THE SAME STAGE AS HIM AND TALKING TO HIM DON'T BE WEIRD ACT NORMAL!" and totally failing at it because she's so nervous and awestruck.
Or maybe I'm projecting how I would be if I were sitting chatting to him. IDK.
Aliens dont exist.
Me, pointing at this lady.
0:38
4:35 nope house seaworth is a rather new house
Kurt Cobain yeah that was quite the fuckup
still dont mean his dad or his before him didn carry it
^ It actually does mean that. Davos was the first in his family to be elevated in his status at all, by Stannis, and in the process of becoming a lord he was able to make his own house. He didn't know what to call it but as he was a smuggler and someone who was worthy of the sea, so to speak, he comes up with the name rather abruptly as I recall it. But no he was POOR growing up, he grew up in one of the worst basically "ghettos" in Westeros. Flea Bottom, in King's Landing. He was only given the title by Stannis after successfully defending one of the Baratheon castles prior to the events of the show but Stannis also took a few knuckles from his as well for his previous acts as a smuggler. As for his Dad though, his Dad was so common I wouldn't be surprised if he doesn't even have a first name. Forget a last one, though. That was all Davos.
She said she read the books
Best part was how he stalled for a second, deciding just to ignore it.
3:48
Why is she looking at us!?
And why did that scare the shit out of me XD
She's psychoanalyzing us to see our deepest fears before she can devour us
I’m doneeee hahahahah
The humans are onto me... must execute laughter procedure 5.2...
Because you touch yourself at night
That fake laugh is so distracting and many more things! In the original 1 hour plus video the comment section has been disabled thanks to that laugh!!!
My favourite name in the books is probably Xaro Xoan Daxos
"Don't give two characters names starting with the same letter"
Tolkien: Finwë, Feanor, Fingolfin, Finarfin, Fingon, Finrod Felagund, Finduilas, Frodo, Frodo, Faramir...
Martin: Aegon, Aemon, Aemond, Aeron, Aerion, Aerys, Aenys,Arya, Alys, Alyssa Alysanne, Alicent, Azor Ahai...
Dickon Manwoody. I want to know how he came up with that name.
Dickon was once a very common name, especially in northern England. "The Secret Garden" was published in 1910 but is still one of the most popular children's stories ever written, and one of the main characters is called Dickon. It's kind of like Richard: people shortened it to Dick, and then Dick became slang for male genitalia, and thenceforth life sucked for all the innocent Richards out there just trying to stay under the radar. Manwoody is still a pretty damn ridiculous to pair with any variation of Dick, though.
Manwoody. ..😌😝
Manhoody xD
Hey Oberyn how is your head feeling?
I think that in the interviewer's mind all eyes are on her.
Dickon is the funniest name 😂😂😂😂😂
Don't forget Aenys!
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go get my Dickon!
He must have been named after Monty Python
Bronn would agree with that
To me it's Sansa, as in italian it means the remains of the olives after oil is made XD
Someone was having too much fun with the robot on stage
One of the keys also, which he did as well C.S. Lewis and Brian Jacques is to make character names which you would never hear in real life, but names that still sound plausible and natural. For example, Sansa. That's not a name you would ever hear, or Tyrion, and Tywin, yet throw in something slightly familiar like Margaery etc. That makes the characters even more relatable somehow.
How to create a name in the ASOIAF universe: when not giving them normal names (Jon, Robert, Brandon, Gregor and so forth) simply take a common name and change two or three letters.
Edward = Eddard
Circe = Cersei
Jamie = Jaime
Jeffrey = Joffrey
Marcella = Myrcella
Thomas = Tommen
Kevin = Kevan
Peter = Petyr
Lance = Lancel
Stanley = Stannis
Samuel = Samwell
Ramsay = Ramsey
Margery = Margaery
Richard = Rickard, Rickon and Dickon
Benjamin (Benji) = Benjen
Darius = Daario
etc.
Is that starting to become obvious? Well, then just throw some randomly exotic names in the mix.
Michael Ciano Gartrell stannis is actually a real name which comes from the slavic name stannislaw
@@Ernesto10241 How unfortunate. That's linguistically less creative than I previously thought.
Jaime is a pretty common name in Spain.
Stannis most likely comes from Stanislaus and Jaime is already a real name.
Arya is a name in India.
i write campaigns for d&d and it's super fun to just write a bunch of fantasy sounding names at once and then assigning them later. i usually start off with parts of a word or sound and build off it
like one character i have,"cloufrid" is just cloud and fridge
George:
Interviewer: AHGAGHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAAHAH
The most beautiful names in his entire series are:
Female: Rhaenyra, Nymeria, Daenerys, Margaery
Male: Viserys, Renly, Beric Dondarrian, Varys
I think Sansa is a very pretty name too❤️
Rhaegar
Ned
I loved Arya ❤️
Visenya, Rhaenys, Aegon, Rhaegar, Viserys, Daenerys, Aerys, Rhaella, Tywin, Tyrion, basically almost any Targaryen names and a few other characters
I'm currently writing a novel that I hope will turn into a series of novels. For my names, I simply use a name generator. For character names, I'm using old Celtic names as I feel those kinds of names fit with the vibe of the novel's setting
Wish you luck!
3:48 gave me chills
George rr Martin: *breathes
Interviewer: HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAH
0:38
That neck twist tho. Somebody needs to call an exorcist!
Aly le renard BJ hahahaha
She's an android.
Who let her out of the tikki room?
When she says Seaworth is a name of the first men, I died inside
I love this look of naming the characters. I am more into stories that are based in long ago times. People back then were very much name after their fathers. My family still does this and our middle names are all after other family members and my brother is a Jr.
That lady could beat Jimmy Fallon in a fake laughing contest with ease . Wow 😂
It's funny how George is explaining everything and the lady keeps looking at the camera trying to keep a straight face to prevent her face from showing disinterest, she was clearly not caring about the details of what George was talking about and was just trying to get through the interview.
I'm gonna name my kid "GRRM", I don't care. "HEY! GRRRRMMM! You got an F in school!?", "GRRRRRM! Time time for dinner!"
Chicken Draws Dogs please don't, he'll never finish anything!
Give them a middle name that consists of only vowels to make up for their first name being all consonants
When the cam looks at her or when the mic picks up her voice, that would be me. Just totally enthralled. Such a charmed speaker. As always, bravo George. So down to earth yet so far beyond in terms of success.
There's something wrong with this lady
Shes probably incredibly nervous and excited that shes having a conversation with who she appears to incredibly idolize.
Mopsi Boli she’s got the jimmy Fallon thing going
@@boppob1343 I love that cold and rational summary
She's in there dawg
There's no congruency to her emoting. Hard to trust someone that presents that way on a first impression even if they're really not a bad person.
Lady: Seaworth
George: umm *looks away in disgust
Me: 💀☠ dead
I think he's brilliant at naming characters
You know nothing X13
I love listening to this guy talk. He just speaks with such brilliance.
This is the mad man who decided to name twins Arryk and Erryk.
Ah yes. The Seaworths. A proud house of First Men origins. GTFO
I think seaworth was made for him by stannis. I may be wrong but I don't think Davos ever had two names as a smuggler, and after his aid at the siege at storms end Stannis named him a lord and since lords must have two names gave him the name seaworth.
Wait disregard that I didnt realize the lady said seaworth
@yung turt You are correct about all of the stuff you said in your first comment. Davos often refers to himself as “Davos of Flea Bottom” because he didn’t have a surname prior to becoming the Onion Knight and Stannis giving him his choice of a surname. He also is nicknamed Davos Halfhand.
It’s a strange situation, she didn’t get it, but she knew of Davos, who doesn’t appear till the second book
@@manofhonor1685 yeah when stannis knighted him and raised him to nobility he chose the name for his house which was Seaworth.
I know it's not professional by any means but if I were speaking with a mind like this I would probably be laughing uncontrollably at anything he says out of nervousness.
So that’s why we ended up with Elden Ring names: Godfrey, Godwin and Godrick.
she's a good interviewer...she asked uncommon questions, deviating from questions George probably answered hundreds of times...and she interacts well.
She does her job so smoothly that people find nothing else to do besides criticise meaningless bullshit, like its perfectly acceptable not to like fantasy books, if she does her job well thats it.
George rr Martin looks like he's the elder leader of a hobbit village
Her fake-laughing at the wrong time
There are many ways to approach naming. I quite enjoy making names on the spot, based on sound, and revising them from there. Another alternative is making a list, based on nationality, race, species, so on, and giving these names based on these variables. These methods work very well together if you don't mind putting all the work at the end.
Sauron and Saurumon is a fascinating case of characters having similar names purely because of the linguistic depth behind the story.
(pronunciation is also a factor in that case)
Not gonna lie, as a child, I did get these names mixed up.
Good god, this is like if George was interviewed in the Hunger Games universe.
Her laugh...it sounds so similar it just helped me diagnose a rattling sound in my truck.
Same laugh also made me want to drive that fixed truck into a river with a scratch and sniff sticker on the floor board....then proceed to scratch AND sniff that sticker....while still underwater.
JESUS PLS STOP LAUGHIN
Anyone who names their kid after Dany hasn't thought very hard about what Targs represent.
The only advice I have for naming sibling characters or real life siblings is to do what my parents did: give all their names different sounding endings. The reason for this is when someone calls out your name, often you only hear the end part of a name. So my name is Amanda but if you call out, "Daaaaaaaa!" I'll show up assuming I was called.
For example my siblings and I are: Aman-da, Dan-iel, Nata-lie, Jilli-an.
For my written character siblings names I wanted them all to have names starting with E because triplets and twins run in their family/race and having single child births are less common. But for my characters it's a single birth eldest child and then brother and sister twins but their parents decided to continue with E names.
Elwyn, Everett and Everly.
I knew a pair of identical twins in school growing up that were called Morgan and Megan, reading this is making me wonder if they ever had problems with being confused when trying to hear their names.
“Don’t give characters names that start with the same letter”
That would be hard if I use my father’s family as inspiration. All 9 of his siblings start with the same letter.
RR say something...This lady: 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
3:03 of all the places he could have chose for Henry, he chose Henry of YORK lol
Some of the name in GOT are very similar to Persian names! some a bit modified and some exactly the same name! , Shireen, Arslan, Arya, Rhaegar (Negar) and so many other names that can't remember now!
Did she say Seaworth?
Respect -2
Kartik Choudhary exactly i was like wutt?..
Kartik Choudhary F
nope,she said "key words"* clean your ears
@xellossaxon nope,she says kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkey words
@@Batnano are you deaf? how do you stress a K and make it sound like Ssssssseaworth?
1:53 Thank you George for the naming in Elden Ring, it totally make sense why it is so easy to understand and remember:
Radagon, Radahn, Rykard, Ranni, Renna, Renala
Godfrey, Godwyn, Godefroy, Gorick,
Marika, Mohh, Morgott, Margit, Malenia, Miquella, Maliketh, Millicent, Melina
Fortissax, Lansseax, Placidusax, Granssax,
Ballssax
Me trying to come up names for my characters in stories.
Put random letters or put words together until I hear something that I find nice enough to fit my ears.
I'm with Mr. Martin on this one, I too can't write a story unless I at least have an idea for character names, even if I do later change a character name or two down the road for whatever reason. Growing up, I often came up with nicknames for pets and other animals based on wordplay, like my family had a Rottweiler named Kemo and I came up with nicknames for him like Kemosabe, Kemotherapy, and Kemogloblin. So if I could come up with clever nicknames then I could create character names through trial and error.
my nickname for you is Borefest
And my nickname for you is Pratt.
even your insults are boring
Look who's talking?
KTChamberlain Interesting. I do that with my characters too, but only the ones with complicated and/or long names that are hard to pronounce(so...a lot of them, lol).
If Arya would watch this she would note to her prayer "... Ser Meryn Trant, Weese, weird Lady interviewing GRRM"
Edward becomes Eddard. Benjamin becomes Benjen. Catelyn becomes Catelyn pronounced as Cat instead of Kate.
Some of them are easy, others not so much.
Let's just say I respect her question.. Quite an underrated one and a one I'd like to hear about, but yes, she's a bit too giggly which isn't a rare trait, should've maybe had her mic volume lowered a bit, just my 50c though :)
What a charming guy, love these interviews
2:52 "Shit, I don't know them, lets just laugh."
The interviewer thinks she's at a comedy show
“Oh I just use Fantasy Name Generator.”
Naming is extreme difficult and also extremely crucial, the names of people and places are a lot of the genius of ASOIAF.
All those parents that named their kids that are named danaerys are in for a shock