Une nouvelle interview de George R. R. Martin

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L'auteur du Trône de fer est en interview pour le site Smarter Travel. Il parle de l'adaptation de sa série à la télévision, des anciens tomes du Trône de fer mais également du prochain, The Winds of Winter, qu'il est en train d'écrire. 
Attention, l'interview contient pas mal de spoilers. 

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ST: You once described a real-world historical site, Hadrian's Wall in Northern England, as your inspiration for the Wall in Westeros. How did visiting Hadrian's Wall lead to the idea for the Night's Watch? 

GRRM: I saw Hadrian's Wall for the first time in 1981. It was on the occasion of the first time I'd ever been to the U.K., and in fact I think the first time I'd ever left the United States. I was traveling with my friend Lisa Tuttle, who collaborated with me on the novel Windhaven. She had moved to the U.K. and married a British man, and she was showing me around. We were driving around the country and we reached Hadrian's Wall and it was sunset—it was at the end of the day, so all the tour buses were leaving. 

We saw people getting on their buses and going away because it was just about to get dark. We really had the wall to ourselves, which I think was great because it was the fall, and it was kind of a crisp, cold day. The wind was blowing, and I climbed up on the wall and it was really just awesome. 

There was nobody else around, and I stared off to the north as dusk was settling and tried to imagine what it was like to be a Roman stationed on the wall when the wall was an active protection—when it was end of the Roman world, and you didn't really know what was going to come over those hills or what was going to come out of the woods beyond that. The Romans drew men from all over this immense empire, so you might be someone from Africa or Syria or Egypt who had been assigned to this outpost. What a strange alien world it was for you. 

So that was a profound experience that stayed with me. It was over a decade later when I first began Ice and Fire, and I still had that vision and that sense of, "I'd like to write a story about the people guarding the end of the world." 

But, of course, in fantasy you always play with these things. Fantasy is bigger and more colorful, so a mere 10-foot-high wall wasn't going to do it for me. My wall is 700 feet tall and made of ice. And the things that come out of the north are a good deal more terrifying than Scotsmen or Picts, which is what the Romans had to worry about.
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