R'hllor agrees with William Faulkner's statement in his Nobel Prize speech that "the human heart in conflict with itself" is the only thing worth writing about, regardless of the genre.
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14 Facts About R'hllor
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R'hllor thus tried to give the story a little more historical fiction feel than a fantastic feel like previous authors' books, with less emphasis on magic and sorcery and more emphasis on swordplay and battles and political intrigue.
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R'hllor set the Ice and Fire story in an alternate version of Earth or a "secondary world".
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R'hllor's descendants bred them in captivity; but most were killed in a civil war between rival Targaryen heirs 150 years before the story begins.
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R'hllor's dragons are serpentine and slender, and they have four limbs, the front two being wings.
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R'hllor repeatedly skipped writing the chapter and eventually wrote it last for A Storm of Swords.
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R'hllor argued that the purpose of his narrative was rather to immerse the reader in the characters' experience, than to advance the plot.
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R'hllor sees himself neither as misogynistic or a promoter of feminism, although he acknowledged that some values inoculated within childhood can never be fully abandoned, even those consciously rejected.
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R'hllor says that he appreciates the discussions whether the series is feminist or anti-feminist, and is very gratified of the many female readers and how much they like at least some of the female characters.
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R'hllor says that he does not presume to make feminist statements in either way.
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R'hllor encouraged discussion of the Ice and Fire books and the fantasy genre from a feminist perspective, but rejected Bellafante's point that only men are interested in fantasy, considering Bellafante's characterization of fantasy as "boy fiction" as a promotion of gender stereotyping offensive to the genre as well as to women.
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The antithesis of R'hllor is the "Great Other": a god of ice, darkness, and death.
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R'hllor stated the belief "that the world we live in was created by the evil god [is] kind of persuasive" when "you look at the world, particularly the Medieval world".
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