I’ve heard the argument that the GoT universe is similar to Middle Earth. Ridiculous. GoT is godless, cruel, and nowhere I’d like to live. Good and evil are relative. In Middle Earth good and evil are clearly defined. There’s a God that’s supposed to be the same as the Biblical one, though he rarely shows up. The civilized people have respect for one another. I don’t think the movie did enough justice to the book, but maybe it’s the same with GoT. I didn’t read it.
I don’t buy into the middle earth comparison either. Both shows the Authors were envisioning different story lines.
Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings was written in a different voice then Game of Thrones. Meaning that Tolkien faced the same problem, I.E gods and deities and general belief in them. He just used a unique way to deal with it. He ignored it and wrote around it.
“In Middle Earth good and evil are clearly defined. There’s a God that’s supposed to be the same as the Biblical one, though he rarely shows up. “
I never spotted any God in LotR. There is good and evil but nothing that looked like religion or God.
I assumed that was deliberate by Tolkien as he was a believer, eg he was involved in the translation of the Jerusalem bible.
http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/The_Jerusalem_Bible