[Nepeta]

I read the first 2 GOT books, but stopped when I realized that while they were briskly told, and the pace swift, I did not care what happened to any of the characters. The story just flowed on and on, like series television, which is where GRRM comes from.

I read Tolkien for the first time about 50 years ago. Tolkien's work is less unique than many fans realize, but what it does, it does masterfully and brings together elements of many aspects of "the northern thing." I love these characters.

ERR Eddison hatched out an imaginary universe in great detail, and was published before Tolkien, but he's almost unreadable, and that's if you are curious about the genre.

There are other fantasy universes to come along after Tolkien that I recall more vividly than GRRM: Moorcock's Elric saga, Norton's Witch World, Kurtz's Deryni stories.

The LOTR movies were generally much, much better than my wildest hopes for them; my quibbles are minor (Aragorn's horse rescue).

[Perdogg]

I am wondering if Tolkein could typed or afford a typist how much more material he would have produced.

[TexasFreeper2009]

It’s hard to get attached to any GoT characters, because the minute to do, they die.

At this point I have decided it no longer worth liking anyone besides the surviving Stark children (including john snow), daneries, and tyrion because everyone else is obviously going to die

[reed13k]

Elric rocked my world many years back; deryni I just discovered a few years ago and it was amazing