![]() The show gave us men of icy substance, initially with a strange type of language of their own in S3 when they attack the Night’s Watch, but have remained mum ever since. And when we do that, it becomes instantly clear which source is the least reliable, but alas also the best well known one: the show Game of Thrones. And he says that “ spoke a lot about what were not, but what they were was harder to put into words.” And well, we have to do the same to start out with: clarify what they are not. For example Tom Patterson helped to illustrate the graphic novels of a Song of Ice and Fire. There are several sources that can shed a light on this, some more trustworthy than others, while some conflict with one another: the books (including peripheral ones set in Planetos), George’s own words in interviews and to illustrators who had to draw them, prior writing of George that falls outside the Planetos universe, and the show. Meanwhile, season 8 of the show was about to start, and this generated several discussions between myself, the Fattest Leech and Kissdbyfire on the nature of the Others, and ultimately the decision to write an analysis and formulate a proposal about them. ![]() But as I have been working on drafts for other essay, I keep bumping into them, and for those drafts to work, I cannot but expand on them, and thus write an article on them. (Top illustration: metaphorical reaper Others riding Ice Spiders, by Jon Howe, for 2020 aSoIaF Calendar)įor the first time in years I touch upon the Others, a subject I sidelined.
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