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A Song of Ice and Fire, the series of fantasy novels by George R. R. Martin, has formed the basis of several works in different media. Novellas Dunk and Egg Main article: Tales of Dunk and Egg Martin wrote three separate novellas set ninety years before the events of the novels. These novellas are known as the Tales of Dunk and Egg after the main protagonists, Ser Duncan the Tall and his ...
The so-called "War of the Five Kings" is in full progress by the middle of the second book, A Clash of Kings. The second part of the story takes place in the far north of Westeros, where an 8,000-year-old wall of ice, simply called " the Wall ", defends the Seven Kingdoms from supernatural creatures known as the Others .
A Game of Thrones is the first novel in A Song of Ice and Fire, a series of fantasy novels by American author George R. R. Martin.It was first published on August 1, 1996. The novel won the 1997 Locus Award [1] and was nominated for both the 1997 Nebula Award [1] and the 1997 World Fantasy Award.
These are lists of works of fiction that have been made into feature films.The title of the work and the year it was published are both followed by the work’s author and the title of the film, and the year of the film.
Game of Thrones is an American fantasy drama television series created by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss for HBO.It is an adaptation of A Song of Ice and Fire, a series of fantasy novels by George R. R. Martin, the first of which is A Game of Thrones.
In the series, the Iron Throne is both a physical seat of office as well as a metonym for the monarchy of Westeros. Martin establishes in A Game of Thrones (1996) that after seizing control of six of the Seven Kingdoms, Targaryen ruler Aegon the Conqueror had made a throne for himself from the swords of his vanquished enemies, fused by dragonfire.
A Clash of Kings is the second of seven planned novels in A Song of Ice and Fire by American author George R. R. Martin, an epic fantasy series. It was first published in the United Kingdom on November 16, 1998; the first United States edition followed on February 2, 1999. [2]
The Thracian religion comprised the mythology, ritual practices and beliefs of the Thracians, a collection of closely related ancient Indo-European peoples who inhabited eastern and southeastern Europe and northwestern Anatolia throughout antiquity and who included the Thracians proper, the Getae, the Dacians, and the Bithynians.