Go to the Map With George R.R. Martin | House of the Dragon (HBO)

[@tmwk__]

Cool to hear the lore straight from the creator's mouth.

[@loremasterxp3635]

Yeah authors that are passionate about their creations even after all this time is sadly a rarity these days.

[@SSGoatanks]

We're all still looking forward to your final books "The Winds of Winter" and "A Dream of Spring" Can't wait to read about how the White Walkers conquer all of Westeros and which survivors barely managed to escape across the Narrow Sea 🌊

[@loremasterxp3635]

@@SSGoatanks That actually sounds like a pretty cool outcome that could set the stage for an entirely new story. The battle to reclaim Westeros!

[@Polo-wk7zl]

Would be even cooler to have the books right from the author’s hands

[@BobSaysWhat22]

Yeah not Dumb and Dumber !!

[@hannescanopus1383]

So cool to have George narrate this video like a really historian

[@KumarAnshs]

He sounds so tired. So unenthusiastic. Which makes sense since he stopped caring about the books. I think making this video was torture for him

[@carsonfortner3775]

@@KumarAnshs if you actually believe this is true you are so stupid.

[@LastRedStar]

​@@KumarAnshsI think it's just that he's overwhelmed with the work he has to do. Finishing the books, helping create the shows for us, making spin off books. He is possibly suffering from writers block which is something every writer gets. He still likes his universe, no doubt about it. Otherwise he wouldn't be apart of the shows creation.

[@deepbluebeer]

@@KumarAnshs You're such an empath

[@KumarAnshs]

@@deepbluebeer call me an empath again and I will fart in your dinner direction, ur mother es a hamster and ur father smelts of elderberrys

[@Divine_Chareka]

I can watch George RR Martin talking about his universe the whole day and never get tired of it. Gods! I love everything about this franchise ❤

[@Quazi-Moto]

How do you feel about the very high likelihood that the book series won't ever be finished? Legitimate question. I'm simply curious to know what new-ish fans think about the story they love never getting an ending. Me, personally? I despise that fact. I used to be like you are now, loving and absorbing every single bit of information about the story that was available. I fell more deeply in love with this series than any other fictional creation I've come across in over 5 decades -- and it wasn't even close.

[@sh4d0w-r0ss-8]

@@Quazi-Moto Personally, I wouldn't be very happy if TWOW doesn't get released, but i'll survive if he doesn't get round to ADOS. I find that the show having an ending is almost enough for me, now if the show never existed and he just never finished the books,, that would be a different story haha.

[@Quazi-Moto]

@@sh4d0w-r0ss-8 I get where you're coming from as far as having SOMEthing to sink our teeth into story-wise due the show existing. But I differ greatly in one major aspect: -If we don't get- Since we won't get a finish to the series in book form, that means the show will be the closest thing to canon we'll get. That fact eats me up. *D*ipshit & *D*umbass completely blew it. It's the one time in my life that I've seen nearly the entire fanbase of ANYthing come together to pan the material. Even the Star Wars prequels didn't get that level of hate -- and they were definitely hated.

[@brilianwastudyatmika7313]

​@@Quazi-Moto😮😮😮😮

[@animethronesfandom]

Same here. They can make a separate series with just GRRM Talking about this series.

[@TihetrisWeathersby]

The geography of GOT is pretty brilliant, Each region has its own unique feel and characteristic

[@zegrasisinnocent]

Bro really liked his own comment with 3 accounts

[@elian_m]

​@@zegrasisinnocent bro's hating for no reason 💀

[@zegrasisinnocent]

@elian_m It's incredibly cringe when you see someone comment 30 seconds ago and they are literally racing to go on their alt accts to upvote their comment.

[@jamesthorogood1479]

@@zegrasisinnocent No... its because its a channel with 4.7 million subscribers, so of course things comments can be liked fast...

[@TihetrisWeathersby]

​@@zegrasisinnocenthater

[@LeornianCyng]

The animation and art style is simply gorgeous. It’s up there with the work Alan Lee did with the Lord of the Rings.

[@Justin1an]

And i can't believe they make this only for a 3 minutes, it should had been an hour explaining a full map 😢

[@dreamfyres]

I would happily listen to George speak about his world all day

[@xshandy5812]

Me too

[@vikingthedude]

You probably already know this, but for those curious, there are some really good youtube channels that go in depth. AltShiftX, David Lightbringer, In Deep Geek, Quinn the GM, The Disputed Lands, Hills Alive, to name a few

[@b0bbuffet]

​@@vikingthedudeyes, but hearing grrm himself speak about this is different

[@Cinemaniac1981]

This could be a series and I would watch intently. Just went on the site, I could look at that map all day. Looking forward to them hopefully adding more to it in the future.

[@Weirwood256]

Where is that

[@antonironstag5085]

@@Weirwood256 the link is onscreen at the end of the video

[@aidanrogers4438]

0:01 _When someone asks me if I’ve “seen that Game of Thrones show.”_

[@andersonfernandes4058]

Same and I literally have a Westeros' map on the wall of my bedroom 😂

[@InJouHande]

​same, above my head right now😂@@andersonfernandes4058

[@patilvs5191]

Mee😂❤

[@tng_abu3201]

😂😂😂

[@Sam__The__Slayer]

This man is doing literally everything, but not finishing his last two books 😭😭. I wish him good health tho ❤️

[@chrissmith6453]

Yep.

[@Sam__The__Slayer]

@@chrissmith6453 😮‍💨🥲

[@ilect1690]

Lot of people forget the guys in his mid 70s

[@Sam__The__Slayer]

@@ilect1690 yeah 🥲

[@Khaled91]

He has also got to finish the Dunk and Egg novellas...He has only completed 3 out of a total of 9 planned short stories. HBO announced a TV adaptation of these stories so we don't want a repeat of what happened with Game of Thrones.

[@RH126B]

It makes my head explode just thinking about how a guy creates a world with such detail and realism.

[@AaronNorton-x6n]

wait until you hear about lord of the rings...

[@temuulenamartuvshin1204]

​@@AaronNorton-x6nthe lord of the rings is good in it's own term as fantasy. Both has big lores and good written histories While a song of ice and fire is good in it's realistic term. The lore is much more realistic and also mysterious as followed by many theories

[@AaronNorton-x6n]

@@temuulenamartuvshin1204 how is it more realistic

[@chamirus1]

​@@AaronNorton-x6n in lotr everything is about fantasy, and it's always a battle between good and evil. Asoiaf has a few fantasy elements, and the story isnt about them at all, it's about the characters and their complexity, each one of them being good and evil in their own ways

[@احمدحاجي-ر3ه]

same

[@Andre_APM]

I keep forgetting that this world isn't real because it's so well fleshed out

[@cloudstrife6986]

My man doing everything except writing his book

[@Rancor9000]

Fr, they need to stop giving his distractions.

[@krollic]

it's kind of a major concern considering his age and weight

[@IsabelaLyriot]

right??? JUST FINISH ALREADY😭

[@kieran6417]

He's never finishing the books. You gotta let it go.

[@cloudstrife6986]

@@kieran6417 I can’t🥹

[@DrHannibal1105]

If you found this interesting, Read 'The world of Ice and Fire'. You will not regret it. The history and lore of Essos, Sothoryos, the summer isles, the basilisk isles, Yi Ti, Naath, Asshai etc is a very fascinating read. Just skip the Targaryen and westerosi history section if you don't want spoilers for HOTD.

[@steffensolhaug4678]

More of this please!!

[@ciandryl]

A petition for more of this with the George!!!!

[@盧璘壽로인수]

nah write more distractions less

[@edvinjohn1316]

He's a goldmine for HBO Max. Rival streamers with competing fantasy shows only wish they had a writer and producer as dedicated to his work.

[@sit-insforsithis1568]

HBO is ruling fantasy rn, and they are also gonna make a Harry Potter series p. They have the fantasy fans by the balls haha

[@legoforbeginners6950]

As long as he doesn't need to finish a book series. Yes, I'm a salty fan.

[@doublestrokeroll]

@@legoforbeginners6950he finished it. Whiners don't like his ending choices and now he doesn't know what to do. Hopefully he either releases them with no changes or doesn't finish them at all as a giant middle finger to all the season 7 and 8 complainers.

[@legoforbeginners6950]

@@doublestrokeroll I mostly just want to see where he'd go with Stannis in the books. I really love that storyline and don't think that he'd go the same route.

[@doublestrokeroll]

@@legoforbeginners6950Fair enough.

[@Justin1an]

There is no way a great quality animation editing like this are only for a 3 minutes video 😢. We want an hour full documentary on GRRM just explaining full map of ASOIAF, especially Essos!!

[@TihetrisWeathersby]

We forget how huge this world is and it's not just the Seven Kingdoms

[@jeffescanto]

He forget it's actually made up 😂

[@rodrigobola]

Im reading the book while waiting for the s2 and its amazing how big this history is. The series took place in the half of the book. Its amazing. I wish to see a show about Jaehaerys and Alysanne too, it would be an awesome novela.

[@svh9]

Always such a treat to hear George explain parts of his own world!

[@kieran6417]

The world of asoiaf is so interesting, especially the unknown lands beyond

[@TridentCapital]

The creativity and depth of the backstory for each and every element of the GoT world is just incredible. GRRM is clearly quite a genius.

[@Jordan77831]

I wish we could see the next book in our lifetime...

[@DaMowner]

A man can dream

[@manuelgutierrez9932]

@@DaMowner… of spring?

[@GoofyCheeks]

​@@manuelgutierrez9932you wish 😂😂

[@loza2101]

You mean his lifetime.

[@EarlofDarling]

I know this is a stretch - but WHAT IF..... just go with me for a second here.... WHAT IF.... the reason he's taken so long is because the book series grew another book or two? What if it's Winds of Winters (and then....) The Nights King (and then ummmm) The Lord of Light AND THENNNN A Dream of Spring. could you imagine? OR... what if he was secretly writing WOW and ADOS together? I wanna stay positive here and at least pretend stuff like this could happen.

[@yuvrajgupta7052]

Please make more series about the world of "Game of Thrones". No show can even come close to these shows ♥♥♥

[@sample2681]

A knight of the seven kingdoms based on the Dunk and Egg Novellas by George RR Martin will be coming soon. Some consider it better than the main story.

[@SerHuntsReviews]

George should narrate all the explanations for background information Lore for each season. I volunteer as co host!

[@jordan9503]

what an amazing story and world ! too bad it will never be finished 😢

[@ryanm.6005]

We need Winds of Winter, Dream of Spring, Fire and Blood V2, Dunk and Egg novellas in that order.

[@ninjakiwi2476]

how about reverse that order or take out Winds coz you know we aint getting that 😂😭

[@Michaelonyoutub]

Honestly I am find with either Winds of Winter and Dream of Spring, or the Dunk and Egg novellas. Either or, and I would be happy. I don't need both, but both would definitely be appreciated.

[@sabrina63]

Ugh, the entitlement of this comment

[@ryanm.6005]

@@sabrina63 I was being hyperbolic. "Need" as in I love the stories and the world building and desperately want the these stories to continue to find out their resolution in this preferred order. Not I demand these stories, now, in this order. Is that better? Do I meet your approval?

[@Benji-jj2bg]

@@ryanm.6005 no ryan, you are the dissapointment of the family. We do not approve of you.

[@zico739]

One of the greatest fictional universes of all time.

[@jon-umber]

I love this man, he rules and Kicks Ass.

[@saldanamoreno]

Hearing him explain the Doom of Valyria was amazing!

[@BehuraStudio]

I love it whenever George talks about anything really, absolute treasure of a man o7

[@rubaiyattrina183]

Is it just me or we all are way more fascinated about the Kingdom of Valeria then Westeros & Esos combined ! I think we all want an entire novel & a series about this great mysterious Kingdom.

[@mero7731]

Why? They're every advanced society that kills themselves by getting to close to the sun. It's an archetype more than a fleshed out society with history. Just read about the fall of Rome

[@SabbiaVivo]

Every thing new about or with George is an instant click.

[@盧璘壽로인수]

basically not a status update of "Winds of Winter"

[@ClaireYunFarronXIII]

I'm surprised by this video. Nice to have Martin himself talk about the politics of the realm once again, now holding up a cool map.

[@RobbStark068]

Son univers est tellement bien fait qu’on a l’impression qu’il est réel , on voit qu’il s’est inspiré de l’histoire de l’humanité

[@yassinemiri3555]

Tout à fait ! Les fer nés : Vikings Les Dothraki : Les huns, et les mongoles Le conflit des cinq rois : la guerre des roses entre les york (stark) et les lancasters ( lannisters) mais aussi un peu de la guerre de cent ans. Aegon est inspiré de william le batard/le conquerant (de Normandie) Même le mûr : il a eu son inspiration en se tenant debout sur le rubicon ou Mûr d'Hadrian qui sépare l'écosse de l'angleterre et qui de son temps séparait les terres romaines (monde civilisé) et qui gardait les pictes (sauvageons) de l'autre côté au Nord.

[@RobbStark068]

@@yassinemiri3555 exactement il a su créer un univers fictif tellement réaliste

[@rtan8780]

2:15 me on the first date trying to make small talk

[@HackerArmy03]

Imagine the potential and the worldwide acclaim of GOT if D&D just followed the books plots closely and postponed the series to wait for George's next book, saving the series' reputation and not only that, but also making George an incentive to hurry his writings more and for more fans to wait in anticipation. It's just sad, really, to see GOT being talked about almost everywhere and people suddenly act like it never existed after it's "ending".

[@doublestrokeroll]

He told them all the major plot points for the endings so people like you really need to shut the.........up.

[@HackerArmy03]

@@doublestrokerollFor the rest of the story after the books. What I meant is for D&D to follow the books 1 to 1 and also hoped they postponed for the next book. But excluding the waiting part, the major plots Martin had laid out for them would make more sense if they, again, followed the books 1 to 1.

[@doublestrokeroll]

@@HackerArmy03They made perfect sense.

[@HackerArmy03]

@@doublestrokeroll Not for me and the majority of the fandom. There's a reason why GoT was almost forgotten after the last seasons, whilst the likes of LOTR still has very heavy presence.

[@doublestrokeroll]

@@HackerArmy03Assumption. You just think it's the majority but really all the whiners are a small part of the audience. People who liked it just don't waste their energy complaining. So unless you can show me the actual numbers, you're just conformation biased in your own little bubble. Same thing for your second point. You're just pulling stuff out of your ........ what proof do you have for your claims? Right....none. House of the Dragon has done very well so there's some proof plenty of people haven't forgotten. As for Lord of the Rings...I don't care. Good for you if you enjoy it....I personally always thought it was boring. Lame "good vs evil" one dimensional story telling.

[@tomurg]

All fuss about wether we like the series or not aside, I absolutely love the geography and history of the world of Ice & Fire.

[@LacosteTK]

Wooow I Wish This Man Explained The Map Of Game Of Thrones For 3 Hours Straight

[@Galo994]

This guy seems to know a lot about A Song of Ice & Fire Lore. Maybe HBO should hire him

[@SuyashK-b7r]

Maybe be a fan or something

[@jas8815]

What a fabulous imagination. Thank you for sharing it with all of us who love this imaginary world so much!

[@thelasonj]

What an absolute JOY to hear this from GRRM himself. More! More! ❤❤❤

[@Yennxfer]

I'd love to see a series based on events that are south of essos or even about the nobles houses before the doom

[@andrewpatrick4254]

It's wonderful to see this geography after reading the books and not really knowing where everything was.

[@rodneycarr2972]

Raw lore from the creator, Ramin Djawadi, and geography?! Gimme more!!!!

[@zillionfurball1451]

Its really cool how he can talk about this like hes a historian talking about a piece of history hes knowledgeable about

[@smisomajola3098]

Martin is a pure genius

[@storyrhymezbycecedaun1944]

July 2024 is ALMOST HERE, PATIENTLY WAITING for Season 2 of HOTD!!!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@Drakarys]

Glad to see you're working hard on book 6, George! 👍

[@rohaankhan7523]

I'm in school and this is the most entertaining thing I've seen so far.

[@Sparrow.......]

I can't wait for season 2 of House Of The Dragon 🐲🐲

[@mathewhosier9739]

There has always been something about Tolkiens middle earth, the elder scrolls and a song of ice and fire that has always captivated me, how an author or game designer could create an entire world with hidden lore and geography is just awesome, each of these three worlds could make really cool single player open world action RPGs similar to the mainline elder scrolls games but based on the whole world, kinda like the elder scrolls online but in a single player game

[@adensanchez4086]

Now this is Worldbuilding at its finest!

[@BigDaddy-vk6rv]

This is soo deliciously educational!

[@suggy_123]

Love how he explains a lot of the POIs - you can tell in his voice 'yeah mf'ers this was all from my brain'.

[@zacharyjones4232]

Imagine how many chapters he could have written during the time of this shoot.

[@perlundgren7797]

During the shoot of a 3,5 minute KZbin video? Not an overwhelming amount of chapters, I imagine.

[@zacharyjones4232]

Nah few hours guaranteed. That’s like 1 paragraph he could have written bro.

[@perlundgren7797]

@@zacharyjones4232 And how many chapters is that? 🙂

[@zacharyjones4232]

@@perlundgren7797 less than 1 😂 hey that’s still progress for us

[@alexander9703]

​@perlundgren7797 It's been 12 years and counting, and he's got two books still to write. Even one paragraph is progress!

[@perrysmith1838]

Loved this ..... could have watched for another hour.

[@HanifAli96]

This world would make for a good open world game

[@rowdyverboven9286]

we need a serie off prime Valyria

[@iphillydi]

Why are other shows like The Witcher & The Last Kingdom not as good as GoT&HoTD? One big reason is because the world building is much more fleshed out in the Game of Thrones world.

[@loremasterxp3635]

I think it's unfair to compare The Last Kingdom to Game of Thrones, one is historical fiction & the other a complete fiction fantasy. Not to mention The Last Kingdom focuses primarily on the story of one man & Dark Ages England whereas Game of Thrones/House of The Dragon take us all over the place & tells multiple peoples story.

[@Michaelonyoutub]

The key difference in my opinion why Game of Thrones stands out compared to other shows that tried to do what it did, is that Game of Thrones' source material was meticulously laid out over decades of writing, where as other shows often only have a few years of writing at most. Other shows often have amazing first seasons as those are the ones with the most time and effort put into their writing as the creators work to get the story picked up for production by studios, but their later seasons often only have one or two years of writing put into them, as they have to produce a new season every year or two, leading to padding and a noticeable decrease in quality.

[@vaahtobileet]

@@Michaelonyoutub I would dispute that: The Witcher novels were published from 1990 to 2013 and the Saxon Tales ("The Last Kingdom" in TV) from 2004-2020. So the source material of The Witcher show had been out for longer than the source material of Game of Thrones, and was of course actually finished, lol. As for the television screenplays, clearly Game of Thrones faltered there also. So the source material had not been out for any longer and wasn't even nearly finished(!), and the screenplays maybe were given more time to develop in the last season and maybe others (?), but it didn't save the prolonged quality of the show. edit: although, I wasn't thinking of the English translations of The Witcher, which were only published from 2007 on. But still, the GOT seasons all aired with one-year gaps, except the last one, which was universally panned.

[@nebsi-85]

Just take a moment to imagine for urself a whole world over 10000+ years every civilisation so deep to every character how they speak live eat even breath different... even the names the culture the is stuff for so many more books tv shows i mean cmon I love it & Thank you so much Sir

[@puma12345ace]

I really hope someday we get a video game where we can travel through the whole map

[@8thdb]

I'm delighted with the immense possibilities and stories this map can bring and excited to discover new cities, locations, bastions and landscapes 🤩

[@pyromaniac709]

How's the book going,george?

[@I-nepukka-I]

More stuff like this please

[@Urantia_]

0:15 Country Aria and Black Sea

[@mayuyumii]

I'm watching hotd and dang Dragonstone and Kingslanding are literally just across the freaking sea

[@akumaszn]

GRRM THE GOAT

[@smurffest6438]

give us more this is fantastic

[@smrutikhemani2234]

Please complete the winds of winter.

[@slavkodesik855]

I know much of the lore, but darn it's so nice listening to this man!

[@dondraper3871]

Thanks... but stop procrastinating and get back to finishing Winds of Winter. And yes. After 12 years of waiting and being told the book is just around the corner, I DO FEEL ENTILTED to tell you what you should do.

[@markkoetsier6475]

Nice world you've built there, George. You should write a book about it.

[@ziggy8253]

My man is the personification of procrastination.

[@TeamTimeRiders]

I truly hope they bring back the show with the same actors after grrm finishes his books. The show was exquisitely cast and those actors are that character and that world. Say what you want about D&D’s writing abilities, but they had a hell of an ability to adapt.

[@serarthurdayne9490]

A Dance With Dragons was published in July 2011. Let that sink in.

[@simplywicked]

I love how these characters are based off real people though out our earth's history

[@boromirfernandes4324]

GRRM: opens mouth Tolkien fanboys: this guy is a fraud

[@Matt..S]

This year it will have been *13* years since the last book came out. 17 if we consider Feast as some of those stories have had cliffhangers since 2007

[@a.r.stephen2835]

Game of thrones the masterpiece

[@jessicaburrell8687]

We need a show on Valyria

[@zegrasisinnocent]

I wanna smoke weed with George R. R. Martin

[@vanbeet5105]

Yeah, he looks like a chill dude

[@jjww30]

My man George only eats Cheetos when he’s high. He eats a lot of Cheetos, loves ‘em.

[@lyndsey1133]

them using Rhaenyra’s Welcome in the beginning is just so real

[@nexus1698]

Lets expand on this epic epicness by finishing the books!

[@childofpersia1213]

Well, that was unbelievably helpful

[@handleformi]

Where is the next book?

[@gabzito240p]

Here I was thinking the stepstones was right next to the castle in kings landing

[@JD29081996]

When is bro going to sit down and actually finish the books

[@CoolsBreeze]

This needs a whole series of episodes.

[@timelordhonour]

I see he has time to make videos now ...

[@fettfan91]

Tbh one of my favorite things about Westeros (and Essos) is how well thought out all of the regions are.

[@magmafang]

he should break down why Winds of Winter is taking so lo-

[@Michaelonyoutub]

An entire series about the Doom of Valyria seems like it might remove some of the mystery of the world since it would likely show Valyrian society, but I would love if there was ever a scene in one of the shows, maybe one of the Targeryan's dreams, that shows the doom.

[@hanshawks5088]

Put down the map and get to writing

[@Muhammad_Sharif]

😂😊

[@jacki8211]

free israel 🇮🇱

[@osakemind]

How dare you lol

[@shubhampaintsimpossible6232]

😂😂😂

[@WhoIsCalli]

This was so much fun. Thanks

[@titantv4567]

Man....... He really is the Tolkien of our generation.

[@vaahtobileet]

I don't think anyone can be compared to Tolkien because of his very unique combination of talents, focuses, and experiences. He was a very specific and singular person, whereas his work spawned numerous writers similar to GRRM who attempt to imitate some facets of the original work. A Song of Ice and Fire is now the most known of these post-Tolkien fantasy stories, but the genre that came to be defined by these countless imitations is very different from Tolkien's work itself.

[@ieradossantos]

I need 90 minutes of animated lore with snippets from the show

[@headrecker]

Fuck the map finish the books!

[@m.williams4971]

The musical theme(s) creates a perfect atmosphere!

[@HismumYT]

This man is doing side quests and forgetting the main story mission.