This type of reactions in a social interaction happen when we don't give a fuck but we force ourselves to react to not be seen like we don't give a fuck. It's basic everyone does that. It is clear that this lady has either concentration problem/don't give a damn shit about what G.R.R.M is, saying. Sorry if my english is bad i'm french but i think it's still understandable.
@@Elkaster1 She's on her job, after all. Not everyone likes their job, and those who do, don't necessarily like every person they get to meet during their job. She's on set, doing her job as best she can. That's more than can be said of many people. Give her a break, people.
everyone: "try to avoid giving your characters names that begin with the same letter" GRRM the abosulte madlad: Godrick, Godwyn, Godfrey, Godefroy, Radagon, Rennala, Ranni, Renna, Radahn, Rickard, Marika, Mohg, Morgott, Margit, Malenia, Miquella, Maliketh, Millicent, Melina
This made my attempts to understand the story basically impossible. I could not for the life of me(and still can't) remember who was Godrick and who Godfrey. When the other G's came into the mix I gave up completely. More of less the same with the other letters.
@@josequiles7430 which is why the other 2 words after the name comes in handy, Gordrick the grafted is the first demigod you kill, Godfrey is the first elden lord who appears much later in the video game, Godwyn the golden is the demigod who died in the night of the knives.
@@josequiles7430 just in case you don't wanna read all Dat godrick is a loser who steals people's body parts to get strong and Godfrey is an giant axe welding barbarian who was also a king once and is very strong Godrick is a descendent of Godfrey first elden lord he was the runt of the litter most likely born with birth defects making him weak and insecure which lead to his abuse of grafting, a sort of looked down on magic practice that allows you to graft other peoples body parts onto yourself to make you stronger hes a coward who insulted malenia another demigod and then proceeded to kiss her feet after she put him in his place, he then fled the capitalof leyndell after running of with stolen treasures, godrick is a spineless coward, Godfrey is a warrior barbarian who believes the right to be king is decided by strength and has two sons morgott (I'd you've played the game you probably hate this guy) and mohg both cursed to be omen a sort of birth defect that originally was seen as a blessing but now is looked on as a curse because of a change in religion, he killed the storm king someone of great power and committed a mass genocide on the giants because they had the power to burn the erdtree, he and his warriors were then sent away to get stronger and die then when they are needed they would be revived and tasked with becoming elden lord and killing a god
I'm sure it took him a long time to name them. Now in book 6, a majority of the characters that will be present in the series have already been named, so at least we know that's not what's delaying him I guess?
nasser wiz the difference is making them work with language. remembering who is who and where they are. keeping character traits and everything for each one. not just naming and going but building a whole person.
@nasser wiz He literally said the name influences how he writes about a character. I'm not a GOT fan, but it's clear that he puts a lot of thought into pretty much everything that he writes, which is why he's still writing the series
@@Chowder12345able No he doesn't. He never tried to hide that he conjured up the names for far-off lands either out of his ass or from Lovecraft. He made the wall 700ft tall not realizing how freakishingly and absurdly ginormous it would be until he saw it in the show.
@J K I don't think he found true financial success until GOT and the shows. He can now enjoy the fruits of his long labors and I imagine it's hard to scale back to what it takes to write to the detail he does. I don't think he 'owes' me anything as a fan, but I would just like to enter that world again.
Im especially impressed by the Targaryan naming system. Because in history certain Dynasties has occuring themes in their names and for the Targaryan ones there are so many names who all look like they belong together. You have the Aegon, Jaehaerys, Viserys, Deamon, Rheagar, Dearon, Aerys. I fucking love that. Also having characters like Tywinn, Tyrion, Tytos just make sense there were like 20 fucking Louis's of France, if there is one think that nobles like more than waging war on each other its naming their kids after themselves and GoT reflects that perfectly. Every house should have their own flavor of naming to them because it gives character to that house and in extent its members.
The idea of naming your heir after yourself stems from transferring the “good” of your leadership onto their rule. Equally as vain, but not necessarily for the reason of “I love myself so much I’ll name my son the same thing”
like the freys who name every male "walder" hoping that would please 90 year old walder and that they inherit the Twin Towers once the 90 year old dies. lol
@@theforevermachine r u serious kids aren’t going to make fun of someone named Daenerys. It’s the parents that watch the show not the kids. Their too young to understand the show and by the time their all grown up they won’t even know where the name originated from. First of all that’s a dope name and this is a fictional story it’s not like their being named Adolf Hitler ( someone whose taught to have been a evil character in history) stop being a snowflake I would wear that name proud if I was a woman
true. my theory is that he wanted to maintain an outward appearance of respect for tyrion because he thought Tyrion would destroy his house, so he tried to make him seem as proper of a lannister as possible and kept his contempt for his son private. in the books especially you realize people are fooled and think Tyrion is as loved and privileged as the rest
Dwarfism manifests later in life , you can never guess if a newborn child will be a dwarf or not , so he couldn't possibly know so he named him Tyrion thinking of him as Jamie -2
I feel like GRRM almost went there in a bit where he is like "I'm worried about all these little girls called Daenerys" but then he smoothly goes into "....which is a really hard-to-write name"
Those are the facial expressions and gestures of a person who is not listening to a word but wants to look like she is. She just seemed distracted and wanted to look interested.
I imagine her eye's blinking sounding like Squidward's walk sound. Also immediately after she laughs, I swear i could hear the Windows XP's closing sound. I'm sure Zuckerburgs sister is a nice person though.
now i know why elden ring has names like: melania melina merika morgot margit millicent mohg radagon radahn rykard renna ranni rennalla godrick godfrey if i had a dime every time i confused melina and melania and radahn and radagon...
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Thank you, however I did notice some first men houses dont really fit into that role entirly. House Dustin for example seems more of an Andal name than a First Man one
Naming the characters is one of the most significant parts of the writing process. It gives them an identity as potentially real people and not simple assets for the narrative. I understand why George takes so much care in choosing character names, and I wish I had that ability. Instead, I do what he described the other writer was doing, except I use descriptors as placeholders instead of numbers, since they reflect some of their personality better than an arbitrary tag. Among my unnamed characters, I have: Dipshit, Pizza Face, Goth Chick, Goth Gal, Linguist, Sniper, Duke Nukem, MILF, Bastard, Granola, Dirty Dan, Blonde, Child 1, Child 2, Amazon Prime, Dickhead, Fuckboy, Deadpool, Weeb... Makes writing serious scenes a bit more difficult, but speeds up the drafting process and leaves more time for the naming.
GREETINGS FELLOW HUMANS. I CAN ALSO LAUGH WITH MY HUMAN MOUTH. HAHAHAHA I'M LAUGHING SO HARD MY HUMAN TAIL IS GETTING CRAMPS. HAHAHA (PSST. HUMANS DON'T HAVE THOSE) NEVERMIND.
@@Tempusverum You can always work on your self-awareness skills. Filming yourself interacting with others helps a ton, and this is what many actors, comedians etc do when they're starting out
I like the realistic approach to character naming, I think it not only creates a sense of realism, but it is also a great way of explaining character origins, relations, and history. Like, for example, at the Twins, there's countless descendants of Walder Frey who are al named either Walder or Walda (for girls), because the Freys are all sniveling sycophants trying to earn praise from their lord. Or like how all Ned Starks children are named after men who were important to him and that he loved, Robb after Robert Baratheon, Jon after Jon Arryn, Brandon "Bran" after Brandon Stark, Ned's older brother (in addition to Brandon being a classic Stark name), and Rickon after Rickard, his father. I would be willing to bet that if he had had a couple more sons, there'd be a Benjin/Ben as well as a Howland. Actually, how badass would that be? A Stark named after Howland Reed, "The Howling Direwolf of Winterfell"
@@landofthehazymist in the family tree of starks in the world of ice and fire there is actually a couple of Arya's and Sansa's in the stark family tree. Great grandmother's and great aunt's. That sort of thing. Honestly I'm surprised he didn't name Sansa or Arya Lyanna Stark. Due to how close ned was with his sister.
@@publiusventidiusbassus1232 I'm named for my grandfather, but one of my uncles is literally a junior of that grandfather, so I'm named for him too. My father is a junior, and he wanted me to be a third. There's literally another person with the same first and last name as me in my own hometown, though he's like 40 years older and we're not related. Given the email address I was assigned in college, I was the 7th person with the same first-last name combo to attend. I've looked it up, and there are over a dozen people who share my whole name, middle included, in the US alone. One Summer as a kid, the place where we took swimming lessons one year had 4 other Richards in my class alone. We all had to go by different variations to differentiate: Richard, Richie, Ricky, Rich, and we used the last name of the last guy. I had never met any of them before that Summer, and I don't think I ever saw any of them ever again after. How many James/Jim/Jimmy's, John/Jon/Jonathan's, William/Will/Bill's, or Joseph/Joe/Joey's are there in the world? I definitely graduated HS with multiples of each of those names. Same with Kelly/Kelley and Kaitlyn/Kaitlin/Caitlin. There were even 2 Siobhans, and I'm in the US, not the UK. It's only realistic for people to share names.
@@tichondriusstormrage The 2nd R in George RR Martin is Richard... Edit: I don't think I was ever notified about your comment... 4 years? Wow I feel old.
It's funny how George is explaining everything and the lady keeps looking at the camera trying to keep a straight face to prevent her face from showing disinterest, she was clearly not caring about the details of what George was talking about and was just trying to get through the interview.
At first I was all, "OH MY GOSH THE LAUGH IS SO ANNOYING!" Then I realized she's probably totally fangirling and trying to listen and pay attention but inside her head she's going "OHMYGOSHOHMYGOSH I'M ON THE SAME STAGE AS HIM AND TALKING TO HIM DON'T BE WEIRD ACT NORMAL!" and totally failing at it because she's so nervous and awestruck. Or maybe I'm projecting how I would be if I were sitting chatting to him. IDK.
When George mentioned the Stark and Lannister naming conventions were proper family customs, it made me wonder why Jaime wasn't the one named Tyrion. With Robb I just explained it away as Ned honoring Robert, since he was born around the end of the rebellion. But I'm not sure why Tywin waited with Tyrion. My guess is he resented the naming convention since his father was so weak, and planned to put an end to it. But he used it on his last son as a punishment for "killing" his mother.
The Ty- thing isn’t super strong in the Lannister family. There’s, Jason, Gerion, Lancel, and Kevan Lannister. Also Jaime was a twin and I don’t think there are female Ty- named Lannisters.
In universe it makes no sense really unless Joanna picked the name ahead of time. But as a 'theme' it shows that Tyrion is actually the most like Tywin.
^ It actually does mean that. Davos was the first in his family to be elevated in his status at all, by Stannis, and in the process of becoming a lord he was able to make his own house. He didn't know what to call it but as he was a smuggler and someone who was worthy of the sea, so to speak, he comes up with the name rather abruptly as I recall it. But no he was POOR growing up, he grew up in one of the worst basically "ghettos" in Westeros. Flea Bottom, in King's Landing. He was only given the title by Stannis after successfully defending one of the Baratheon castles prior to the events of the show but Stannis also took a few knuckles from his as well for his previous acts as a smuggler. As for his Dad though, his Dad was so common I wouldn't be surprised if he doesn't even have a first name. Forget a last one, though. That was all Davos.
Dickon was once a very common name, especially in northern England. "The Secret Garden" was published in 1910 but is still one of the most popular children's stories ever written, and one of the main characters is called Dickon. It's kind of like Richard: people shortened it to Dick, and then Dick became slang for male genitalia, and thenceforth life sucked for all the innocent Richards out there just trying to stay under the radar. Manwoody is still a pretty damn ridiculous to pair with any variation of Dick, though.
Enough's been said about this robot woman, so I won't.... but I will say....this actually WAS a question I've thought about watching the show.....so I was thrilled to hear his answer about that....
I think seaworth was made for him by stannis. I may be wrong but I don't think Davos ever had two names as a smuggler, and after his aid at the siege at storms end Stannis named him a lord and since lords must have two names gave him the name seaworth.
@yung turt You are correct about all of the stuff you said in your first comment. Davos often refers to himself as “Davos of Flea Bottom” because he didn’t have a surname prior to becoming the Onion Knight and Stannis giving him his choice of a surname. He also is nicknamed Davos Halfhand.
I'm currently writing a novel that I hope will turn into a series of novels. For my names, I simply use a name generator. For character names, I'm using old Celtic names as I feel those kinds of names fit with the vibe of the novel's setting
i write campaigns for d&d and it's super fun to just write a bunch of fantasy sounding names at once and then assigning them later. i usually start off with parts of a word or sound and build off it like one character i have,"cloufrid" is just cloud and fridge
How to create a name in the ASOIAF universe: when not giving them normal names (Jon, Robert, Brandon, Gregor and so forth) simply take a common name and change two or three letters. Edward = Eddard Circe = Cersei Jamie = Jaime Jeffrey = Joffrey Marcella = Myrcella Thomas = Tommen Kevin = Kevan Peter = Petyr Lance = Lancel Stanley = Stannis Samuel = Samwell Ramsay = Ramsey Margery = Margaery Richard = Rickard, Rickon and Dickon Benjamin (Benji) = Benjen Darius = Daario etc. Is that starting to become obvious? Well, then just throw some randomly exotic names in the mix.
One of the keys also, which he did as well C.S. Lewis and Brian Jacques is to make character names which you would never hear in real life, but names that still sound plausible and natural. For example, Sansa. That's not a name you would ever hear, or Tyrion, and Tywin, yet throw in something slightly familiar like Margaery etc. That makes the characters even more relatable somehow.
I know it's not professional by any means but if I were speaking with a mind like this I would probably be laughing uncontrollably at anything he says out of nervousness.
There are many ways to approach naming. I quite enjoy making names on the spot, based on sound, and revising them from there. Another alternative is making a list, based on nationality, race, species, so on, and giving these names based on these variables. These methods work very well together if you don't mind putting all the work at the end.
I love this look of naming the characters. I am more into stories that are based in long ago times. People back then were very much name after their fathers. My family still does this and our middle names are all after other family members and my brother is a Jr.
When the cam looks at her or when the mic picks up her voice, that would be me. Just totally enthralled. Such a charmed speaker. As always, bravo George. So down to earth yet so far beyond in terms of success.
Me trying to come up names for my characters in stories. Put random letters or put words together until I hear something that I find nice enough to fit my ears.
“Don’t give characters names that start with the same letter” That would be hard if I use my father’s family as inspiration. All 9 of his siblings start with the same letter.
I need to turn my volume up to hear and understand GRRM in videos like these, but always end up having to crank it right down again when his interviewer begins squeaking
She does her job so smoothly that people find nothing else to do besides criticise meaningless bullshit, like its perfectly acceptable not to like fantasy books, if she does her job well thats it.
Her laugh...it sounds so similar it just helped me diagnose a rattling sound in my truck. Same laugh also made me want to drive that fixed truck into a river with a scratch and sniff sticker on the floor board....then proceed to scratch AND sniff that sticker....while still underwater.
It's described in the books as since Walder Frey (the 90 year old) has so so many sons and grandsons and so forth, Freys started naming their sons Walder to gain slight leeway in obtaining some type of succession when OG Walder finally dies. They are basically just kissing his ass.
That fake laugh is so distracting and many more things! In the original 1 hour plus video the comment section has been disabled thanks to that laugh!!!
It was while reading one of the Dune books that I really paused to think about the feel of names. Number of syllables, even vs. odd counts, balance between name parts, types of sounds used, etc.
George RR Martin: *breathes
Lady: HAHAHAHAAHAHHAAHAHA
Gerge
@@floga10 where? 😎
Literally wanted to gag her to stop fucking laughing
She must be flayed!
Her vagina was very wet cuz georgie is such a fat artist hehehehehehehehhaaahajhuuhuuhuh
Lady is clearly getting her social interaction lessons from Mark Zuckerberg
haha insane comment
This type of reactions in a social interaction happen when we don't give a fuck but we force ourselves to react to not be seen like we don't give a fuck. It's basic everyone does that. It is clear that this lady has either concentration problem/don't give a damn shit about what G.R.R.M is, saying. Sorry if my english is bad i'm french but i think it's still understandable.
@@Elkaster1 She's on her job, after all. Not everyone likes their job, and those who do, don't necessarily like every person they get to meet during their job. She's on set, doing her job as best she can. That's more than can be said of many people. Give her a break, people.
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Mental health buff here, she's clearly on crontrolled substances (psychiatric drugs) or slightly drunk.
everyone: "try to avoid giving your characters names that begin with the same letter"
GRRM the abosulte madlad: Godrick, Godwyn, Godfrey, Godefroy, Radagon, Rennala, Ranni, Renna, Radahn, Rickard, Marika, Mohg, Morgott, Margit, Malenia, Miquella, Maliketh, Millicent, Melina
To be fair, that's probably mostly on Miyazaki. He's been doing it since Gwyn.
based GRRM naming the main characters after his initials
This made my attempts to understand the story basically impossible. I could not for the life of me(and still can't) remember who was Godrick and who Godfrey. When the other G's came into the mix I gave up completely. More of less the same with the other letters.
@@josequiles7430 which is why the other 2 words after the name comes in handy, Gordrick the grafted is the first demigod you kill, Godfrey is the first elden lord who appears much later in the video game, Godwyn the golden is the demigod who died in the night of the knives.
@@josequiles7430
just in case you don't wanna read all Dat
godrick is a loser who steals people's body parts to get strong
and Godfrey is an giant axe welding barbarian who was also a king once and is very strong
Godrick is a descendent of Godfrey first elden lord he was the runt of the litter most likely born with birth defects making him weak and insecure which lead to his abuse of grafting, a sort of looked down on magic practice that allows you to graft other peoples body parts onto yourself to make you stronger hes a coward who insulted malenia another demigod and then proceeded to kiss her feet after she put him in his place, he then fled the capitalof leyndell after running of with stolen treasures, godrick is a spineless coward, Godfrey is a warrior barbarian who believes the right to be king is decided by strength and has two sons morgott (I'd you've played the game you probably hate this guy) and mohg both cursed to be omen a sort of birth defect that originally was seen as a blessing but now is looked on as a curse because of a change in religion, he killed the storm king someone of great power and committed a mass genocide on the giants because they had the power to burn the erdtree, he and his warriors were then sent away to get stronger and die then when they are needed they would be revived and tasked with becoming elden lord and killing a god
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yeah she does do that like a robot :D
Lol
why did we keep getting all these reaction shots of her sayin nowt an cacklin'!? made my skin crawl
I checked the comments just to see if someone made fun of her for that yet.
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George: I...
Interviewer: JAHHAHAHAHAHAA OMFG ROFL LMAO. HELP TROLOLOLOLOL
George: ..
haha grrm sounds like a mysthical wanderer of a fantasy film passing by the woods hahaha
where is that
HOTS Diablo Channel it’s just a dramatization haha
Makes you realize how much work he put into the novels when it takes that much effort just to name your characters
I'm sure it took him a long time to name them. Now in book 6, a majority of the characters that will be present in the series have already been named, so at least we know that's not what's delaying him I guess?
nasser wiz the difference is making them work with language. remembering who is who and where they are. keeping character traits and everything for each one. not just naming and going but building a whole person.
@nasser wiz He literally said the name influences how he writes about a character. I'm not a GOT fan, but it's clear that he puts a lot of thought into pretty much everything that he writes, which is why he's still writing the series
@@Chowder12345able No he doesn't. He never tried to hide that he conjured up the names for far-off lands either out of his ass or from Lovecraft. He made the wall 700ft tall not realizing how freakishingly and absurdly ginormous it would be until he saw it in the show.
@J K I don't think he found true financial success until GOT and the shows. He can now enjoy the fruits of his long labors and I imagine it's hard to scale back to what it takes to write to the detail he does. I don't think he 'owes' me anything as a fan, but I would just like to enter that world again.
Elon Musk probably watched this vid before naming his son
He’s still waiting to decide like that science fiction writer
@@vittovioletcreeper LMFAOOOOO
He didn’t finish it though
If you Google “Faustian bargain”, you get a bunch of stories about having a kid with Elon Musk
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She's super annoying 👺
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Hahahaa… why are we laughing…?
We're all waiting for the new character in "winds of winter", he's gonna be called, "Freddard Stark"
Or Nedward 🤣
Nedaerys Targarathister
@@Peter_File69 sounds like one he would use
@@Peter_File69 Mike Tyson trying to speak High Valyrian
That's Xfreddard Stark
Im especially impressed by the Targaryan naming system. Because in history certain Dynasties has occuring themes in their names and for the Targaryan ones there are so many names who all look like they belong together. You have the Aegon, Jaehaerys, Viserys, Deamon, Rheagar, Dearon, Aerys. I fucking love that.
Also having characters like Tywinn, Tyrion, Tytos just make sense there were like 20 fucking Louis's of France, if there is one think that nobles like more than waging war on each other its naming their kids after themselves and GoT reflects that perfectly. Every house should have their own flavor of naming to them because it gives character to that house and in extent its members.
*Targaryen. Daemon. Rhaegar. Daeron. Tywin.
The idea of naming your heir after yourself stems from transferring the “good” of your leadership onto their rule.
Equally as vain, but not necessarily for the reason of “I love myself so much I’ll name my son the same thing”
Well that's nothing, in roman times names were inherited not given
like the freys who name every male "walder" hoping that would please 90 year old walder and that they inherit the Twin Towers once the 90 year old dies. lol
Then there's Jaime. Makes no sense.
Imagine what those mothers that named there kid Daenerys are thinking right now after what happened in S8 Ep 5
@@theforevermachine Bruh I wished I was named Daenerys lmao.
@@theforevermachine fr who in their right mind would ruin a kids life because they like a show lol like grow up
@@theforevermachine r u serious kids aren’t going to make fun of someone named Daenerys. It’s the parents that watch the show not the kids. Their too young to understand the show and by the time their all grown up they won’t even know where the name originated from. First of all that’s a dope name and this is a fictional story it’s not like their being named Adolf Hitler ( someone whose taught to have been a evil character in history) stop being a snowflake I would wear that name proud if I was a woman
@@theforevermachine "kid can be vicious" u sound traumatized
@@theforevermachine wow you love adverbs you should be a writer. absolutely horrendously?
0:39 OMG that head tilt was so scary 😂😂😂 whoever is playing with her control panel, please stop!
Laniakea -000- 😬
And the eyes
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Ive seen other ppl move like that suddenly ngl but yeah keep that in a horror movie where it belongs
It's kind of weird that Tywin named his first born male Jamie and his dwarf child Tyrion. You would think it would be the opposite.
true. my theory is that he wanted to maintain an outward appearance of respect for tyrion because he thought Tyrion would destroy his house, so he tried to make him seem as proper of a lannister as possible and kept his contempt for his son private. in the books especially you realize people are fooled and think Tyrion is as loved and privileged as the rest
Tyrion may have already had a name chosen by his mother before he was born
I don't understand, why would that matter?
Azor ahai,is jaimw
Dwarfism manifests later in life , you can never guess if a newborn child will be a dwarf or not , so he couldn't possibly know so he named him Tyrion thinking of him as Jamie -2
Anyone noticed how Ned (GRRM) named Jon and Robb after Robert Baratheon and Jon Arryn? Two men he felt closely related to, i just did lol
Khalil El Fakhri I didn’t know there was a time frame in which I had to find out
Jay Amezcua at least you did. Many don't know who tf is Lord Jon Arryn lol
Jay Amezcua yes
Jay Amezcua yep! And Jon and Ned both named their first sons after Robert
Yes, I noticed that with the initial introduction of each character.
Mommy, why did you name me after a mass murderer?
I did not know son. I did not know😔
Mom stopped at season 6. LuL
@Richard Animations I did not have a daughter, okay!
And if life give you lemons, you name your only son Daenerys!
I feel like GRRM almost went there in a bit where he is like "I'm worried about all these little girls called Daenerys" but then he smoothly goes into "....which is a really hard-to-write name"
5:20 I think he almost spoiled it and stopped himself.
Who's hyped for Fred in The Winds of Winter?
Freddard Stark😂
Frederys Targaryan
The Fred
Still waiting on Winds of Winter
Ser Fredrick Targaryen
Those are the facial expressions and gestures of a person who is not listening to a word but wants to look like she is. She just seemed distracted and wanted to look interested.
Exactly
Its social fobia that make her look so robótica, you can see she is not usted to be in front of lots of People
The laugh I do back when I was in retail
She's trying to get the perfect angle for a silent fart
She's ripped hard on _something_ Watch 0:37 without sound, just checking the body language. My guess is ecstasy.
Tolkien was also a genius at coming up with names that resonate well in the sword and sorcery context.
The money I’d pay to see him and GRRM have a conversation cannot be overstated
he was a linguist after all, coming up with names and words would be a lot easier for him lol
Mmm yes Sauron and Saruman. Quite different and easy to differentiate in a spoken conversation
@@aidanchilton7899 ...they are though?
Tolkien was the only author genius, George Martin is mediocre
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Yeah, they should switch her off
I think the interviewer is on some serious drugs😂😂😂😂
GRR: open his mouth to say a word
Interwiever: 😂😂😂😂😂
Gopi Chintala HA HA HA HA HA
Nah she is just not interested and has no clue what he is talking about. Trying to fool everyone with her fake attitude is also very ignorant.
I imagine her eye's blinking sounding like Squidward's walk sound.
Also immediately after she laughs, I swear i could hear the Windows XP's closing sound.
I'm sure Zuckerburgs sister is a nice person though.
Good comment lol
“It’s a robot!”
Missandei and Milisandre were always confusing to me.
Kris Hammer Oh thank god I was the only one! 😂
@@TheOscarFrancois lol we are not alone my friend.
And what makes it worse cuz they're both fine as hell
Willi six in the books missandei is like 10
@@jackfarns6448 tv show son, tv show
now i know why elden ring has names like:
melania
melina
merika
morgot
margit
millicent
mohg
radagon
radahn
rykard
renna
ranni
rennalla
godrick
godfrey
if i had a dime every time i confused melina and melania and radahn and radagon...
don't forget godefroy
It’s a lot of G’s, R’s, and M’s. Definitely away for him to sign his name into the lore.
@@toastytoast9800 and Godwin
@@photon816 hes already denied
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5% Other miscellaneous comments about interviewer
1% about names.
And ur comment about the other comments
Martin: First men have descriptive names like Stark, Strong, Mud ...
Lady: Seaworth.
As in Davos Seaworth ... the family that is like 20 Years old
I thought the same thing and was about to make a comment
I giggled at that idiocy... 😂
Thank you, however I did notice some first men houses dont really fit into that role entirly. House Dustin for example seems more of an Andal name than a First Man one
I also liked how Martin subtly decided to ignore her comment
@@jamesdooling4139 it's spelled idiocracy*
Naming the characters is one of the most significant parts of the writing process. It gives them an identity as potentially real people and not simple assets for the narrative. I understand why George takes so much care in choosing character names, and I wish I had that ability.
Instead, I do what he described the other writer was doing, except I use descriptors as placeholders instead of numbers, since they reflect some of their personality better than an arbitrary tag.
Among my unnamed characters, I have: Dipshit, Pizza Face, Goth Chick, Goth Gal, Linguist, Sniper, Duke Nukem, MILF, Bastard, Granola, Dirty Dan, Blonde, Child 1, Child 2, Amazon Prime, Dickhead, Fuckboy, Deadpool, Weeb... Makes writing serious scenes a bit more difficult, but speeds up the drafting process and leaves more time for the naming.
is this lady somehow related to jimmy fallon?
tiny lama underrated comment
Lady: Seaworth
George: umm *looks away in disgust
Me: 💀☠ dead
*I AM A HUMAN*
ok now I'm suspicious...
*HA HA HA HA* GOOD ONE FELLOW GEORGE RR MARTIN
Disagree.
Kakegurui?
GREETINGS FELLOW HUMANS.
I CAN ALSO LAUGH WITH MY HUMAN MOUTH.
HAHAHAHA
I'M LAUGHING SO HARD MY HUMAN TAIL IS GETTING CRAMPS. HAHAHA
(PSST. HUMANS DON'T HAVE THOSE)
NEVERMIND.
Aliens dont exist.
Me, pointing at this lady.
0:38
4:45 the way the robot switches from her happy face to her understanding face makes me giggle
Jonathan Hult so scary
Man I think I do this same shit now I'm worried. When I'm not interested and pretend to be.
Man of Honor [yung turt] it’s a terrifying thought that we can never see ourselves as others see us
@@Tempusverum You can always work on your self-awareness skills. Filming yourself interacting with others helps a ton, and this is what many actors, comedians etc do when they're starting out
she knows how to flirt, bruv
George:
Interviewer: AHGAGHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAAHAH
I like the realistic approach to character naming, I think it not only creates a sense of realism, but it is also a great way of explaining character origins, relations, and history. Like, for example, at the Twins, there's countless descendants of Walder Frey who are al named either Walder or Walda (for girls), because the Freys are all sniveling sycophants trying to earn praise from their lord. Or like how all Ned Starks children are named after men who were important to him and that he loved, Robb after Robert Baratheon, Jon after Jon Arryn, Brandon "Bran" after Brandon Stark, Ned's older brother (in addition to Brandon being a classic Stark name), and Rickon after Rickard, his father. I would be willing to bet that if he had had a couple more sons, there'd be a Benjin/Ben as well as a Howland.
Actually, how badass would that be? A Stark named after Howland Reed, "The Howling Direwolf of Winterfell"
Sansa and Arya are named after his Stark (in Arya's case her namesake Arya Flint married a Stark) ancestors too.
@@landofthehazymist in the family tree of starks in the world of ice and fire there is actually a couple of Arya's and Sansa's in the stark family tree. Great grandmother's and great aunt's. That sort of thing. Honestly I'm surprised he didn't name Sansa or Arya Lyanna Stark. Due to how close ned was with his sister.
Kinda lame how he didnt name Sansa Lyanna
People being named after family members, friends, or other figures is just realistic. It's not as if I'm the only Richard out there.
or aaaare you...?
Does anyone call ya dick?
There's a very common male name in my family that my dad, grandad and several cousins all share.
@@publiusventidiusbassus1232
I'm named for my grandfather, but one of my uncles is literally a junior of that grandfather, so I'm named for him too.
My father is a junior, and he wanted me to be a third.
There's literally another person with the same first and last name as me in my own hometown, though he's like 40 years older and we're not related.
Given the email address I was assigned in college, I was the 7th person with the same first-last name combo to attend.
I've looked it up, and there are over a dozen people who share my whole name, middle included, in the US alone.
One Summer as a kid, the place where we took swimming lessons one year had 4 other Richards in my class alone. We all had to go by different variations to differentiate: Richard, Richie, Ricky, Rich, and we used the last name of the last guy. I had never met any of them before that Summer, and I don't think I ever saw any of them ever again after.
How many James/Jim/Jimmy's, John/Jon/Jonathan's, William/Will/Bill's, or Joseph/Joe/Joey's are there in the world? I definitely graduated HS with multiples of each of those names. Same with Kelly/Kelley and Kaitlyn/Kaitlin/Caitlin. There were even 2 Siobhans, and I'm in the US, not the UK.
It's only realistic for people to share names.
@@tichondriusstormrage
The 2nd R in George RR Martin is Richard...
Edit: I don't think I was ever notified about your comment... 4 years? Wow I feel old.
"First Men names like Stark, Strong or Mudd"
"SEAWORTH"
Bruh
It's funny how George is explaining everything and the lady keeps looking at the camera trying to keep a straight face to prevent her face from showing disinterest, she was clearly not caring about the details of what George was talking about and was just trying to get through the interview.
But xaro xhoan daxos though, cmon George
Sounds like a dish at a chinese restaurant :D
Like, omagad, I know, right?
Not to mention all those Ghiscari names...
That has to be his sense of humor, especially considering the way those characters were introduced.
Or Alayaya, or those Ghiscari names that sound like you’re doing an impression of a bee.
3:48
Why is she looking at us!?
And why did that scare the shit out of me XD
She's psychoanalyzing us to see our deepest fears before she can devour us
I’m doneeee hahahahah
The humans are onto me... must execute laughter procedure 5.2...
Because you touch yourself at night
George rr Martin: *breathes
Interviewer: HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAH
I think that in the interviewer's mind all eyes are on her.
4:00 she was so psyched to throw an answer in there real quick haha
Dickon is the funniest name 😂😂😂😂😂
Don't forget Aenys!
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go get my Dickon!
He must have been named after Monty Python
Bronn would agree with that
To me it's Sansa, as in italian it means the remains of the olives after oil is made XD
This man is a great speaker and storyteller. He should write a book.
At first I was all, "OH MY GOSH THE LAUGH IS SO ANNOYING!"
Then I realized she's probably totally fangirling and trying to listen and pay attention but inside her head she's going "OHMYGOSHOHMYGOSH I'M ON THE SAME STAGE AS HIM AND TALKING TO HIM DON'T BE WEIRD ACT NORMAL!" and totally failing at it because she's so nervous and awestruck.
Or maybe I'm projecting how I would be if I were sitting chatting to him. IDK.
When George mentioned the Stark and Lannister naming conventions were proper family customs, it made me wonder why Jaime wasn't the one named Tyrion. With Robb I just explained it away as Ned honoring Robert, since he was born around the end of the rebellion. But I'm not sure why Tywin waited with Tyrion. My guess is he resented the naming convention since his father was so weak, and planned to put an end to it. But he used it on his last son as a punishment for "killing" his mother.
Maybe he and the mother agreed beforehand
The Ty- thing isn’t super strong in the Lannister family. There’s, Jason, Gerion, Lancel, and Kevan Lannister. Also Jaime was a twin and I don’t think there are female Ty- named Lannisters.
In universe it makes no sense really unless Joanna picked the name ahead of time. But as a 'theme' it shows that Tyrion is actually the most like Tywin.
I'm gonna name my kid "GRRM", I don't care. "HEY! GRRRRMMM! You got an F in school!?", "GRRRRRM! Time time for dinner!"
Chicken Draws Dogs please don't, he'll never finish anything!
Give them a middle name that consists of only vowels to make up for their first name being all consonants
When she says Seaworth is a name of the first men, I died inside
And that's why Elden ring has Godrick, Godwin, Godfrey and Godefrey. Millicent, Malenia, Melina e Marika
Don't forget rykard, radagon, renny rannala, radahn
4:35 nope house seaworth is a rather new house
Kurt Cobain yeah that was quite the fuckup
still dont mean his dad or his before him didn carry it
^ It actually does mean that. Davos was the first in his family to be elevated in his status at all, by Stannis, and in the process of becoming a lord he was able to make his own house. He didn't know what to call it but as he was a smuggler and someone who was worthy of the sea, so to speak, he comes up with the name rather abruptly as I recall it. But no he was POOR growing up, he grew up in one of the worst basically "ghettos" in Westeros. Flea Bottom, in King's Landing. He was only given the title by Stannis after successfully defending one of the Baratheon castles prior to the events of the show but Stannis also took a few knuckles from his as well for his previous acts as a smuggler. As for his Dad though, his Dad was so common I wouldn't be surprised if he doesn't even have a first name. Forget a last one, though. That was all Davos.
She said she read the books
Best part was how he stalled for a second, deciding just to ignore it.
He has an immense imagination and his books are timeless, Thanks for the upload
That lady could beat Jimmy Fallon in a fake laughing contest with ease . Wow 😂
0:38
That neck twist tho. Somebody needs to call an exorcist!
Aly le renard BJ hahahaha
She's an android.
Who let her out of the tikki room?
Dickon Manwoody. I want to know how he came up with that name.
Dickon was once a very common name, especially in northern England. "The Secret Garden" was published in 1910 but is still one of the most popular children's stories ever written, and one of the main characters is called Dickon. It's kind of like Richard: people shortened it to Dick, and then Dick became slang for male genitalia, and thenceforth life sucked for all the innocent Richards out there just trying to stay under the radar. Manwoody is still a pretty damn ridiculous to pair with any variation of Dick, though.
Manwoody. ..😌😝
Manhoody xD
Hey Oberyn how is your head feeling?
My favourite name in the books is probably Xaro Xoan Daxos
There's something wrong with this lady
Shes probably incredibly nervous and excited that shes having a conversation with who she appears to incredibly idolize.
Mopsi Boli she’s got the jimmy Fallon thing going
@@boppob1343 I love that cold and rational summary
She's in there dawg
There's no congruency to her emoting. Hard to trust someone that presents that way on a first impression even if they're really not a bad person.
The most beautiful names in his entire series are:
Female: Rhaenyra, Nymeria, Daenerys, Margaery
Male: Viserys, Renly, Beric Dondarrian, Varys
I think Sansa is a very pretty name too❤️
Rhaegar
Ned
I loved Arya ❤️
Visenya, Rhaenys, Aegon, Rhaegar, Viserys, Daenerys, Aerys, Rhaella, Tywin, Tyrion, basically almost any Targaryen names and a few other characters
JESUS PLS STOP LAUGHIN
3:48 gave me chills
George rr Martin looks like he's the elder leader of a hobbit village
Someone was having too much fun with the robot on stage
Enough's been said about this robot woman, so I won't....
but I will say....this actually WAS a question I've thought about watching the show.....so I was thrilled to hear his answer about that....
Ah yes. The Seaworths. A proud house of First Men origins. GTFO
I think seaworth was made for him by stannis. I may be wrong but I don't think Davos ever had two names as a smuggler, and after his aid at the siege at storms end Stannis named him a lord and since lords must have two names gave him the name seaworth.
Wait disregard that I didnt realize the lady said seaworth
@yung turt You are correct about all of the stuff you said in your first comment. Davos often refers to himself as “Davos of Flea Bottom” because he didn’t have a surname prior to becoming the Onion Knight and Stannis giving him his choice of a surname. He also is nicknamed Davos Halfhand.
It’s a strange situation, she didn’t get it, but she knew of Davos, who doesn’t appear till the second book
@@manofhonor1685 yeah when stannis knighted him and raised him to nobility he chose the name for his house which was Seaworth.
I'm currently writing a novel that I hope will turn into a series of novels. For my names, I simply use a name generator. For character names, I'm using old Celtic names as I feel those kinds of names fit with the vibe of the novel's setting
Wish you luck!
i write campaigns for d&d and it's super fun to just write a bunch of fantasy sounding names at once and then assigning them later. i usually start off with parts of a word or sound and build off it
like one character i have,"cloufrid" is just cloud and fridge
How to create a name in the ASOIAF universe: when not giving them normal names (Jon, Robert, Brandon, Gregor and so forth) simply take a common name and change two or three letters.
Edward = Eddard
Circe = Cersei
Jamie = Jaime
Jeffrey = Joffrey
Marcella = Myrcella
Thomas = Tommen
Kevin = Kevan
Peter = Petyr
Lance = Lancel
Stanley = Stannis
Samuel = Samwell
Ramsay = Ramsey
Margery = Margaery
Richard = Rickard, Rickon and Dickon
Benjamin (Benji) = Benjen
Darius = Daario
etc.
Is that starting to become obvious? Well, then just throw some randomly exotic names in the mix.
Michael Ciano Gartrell stannis is actually a real name which comes from the slavic name stannislaw
@@Ernesto10241 How unfortunate. That's linguistically less creative than I previously thought.
Jaime is a pretty common name in Spain.
Stannis most likely comes from Stanislaus and Jaime is already a real name.
Arya is a name in India.
I think he's brilliant at naming characters
One of the keys also, which he did as well C.S. Lewis and Brian Jacques is to make character names which you would never hear in real life, but names that still sound plausible and natural. For example, Sansa. That's not a name you would ever hear, or Tyrion, and Tywin, yet throw in something slightly familiar like Margaery etc. That makes the characters even more relatable somehow.
"Don't give two characters names starting with the same letter"
Tolkien: Finwë, Feanor, Fingolfin, Finarfin, Fingon, Finrod Felagund, Finduilas, Frodo, Frodo, Faramir...
Martin: Aegon, Aemon, Aemond, Aeron, Aerion, Aerys, Aenys,Arya, Alys, Alyssa Alysanne, Alicent, Azor Ahai...
I know it's not professional by any means but if I were speaking with a mind like this I would probably be laughing uncontrollably at anything he says out of nervousness.
There are many ways to approach naming. I quite enjoy making names on the spot, based on sound, and revising them from there. Another alternative is making a list, based on nationality, race, species, so on, and giving these names based on these variables. These methods work very well together if you don't mind putting all the work at the end.
I love listening to this guy talk. He just speaks with such brilliance.
“Lannister is an Andal name” I never thought I would be able to correct GRRM but the Lannisters are actually from the First men from Lann the Clever”
So that’s why we ended up with Elden Ring names: Godfrey, Godwin and Godrick.
I love this look of naming the characters. I am more into stories that are based in long ago times. People back then were very much name after their fathers. My family still does this and our middle names are all after other family members and my brother is a Jr.
When the cam looks at her or when the mic picks up her voice, that would be me. Just totally enthralled. Such a charmed speaker. As always, bravo George. So down to earth yet so far beyond in terms of success.
Me trying to come up names for my characters in stories.
Put random letters or put words together until I hear something that I find nice enough to fit my ears.
“Oh I just use Fantasy Name Generator.”
Anyone who names their kid after Dany hasn't thought very hard about what Targs represent.
What a charming guy, love these interviews
“Don’t give characters names that start with the same letter”
That would be hard if I use my father’s family as inspiration. All 9 of his siblings start with the same letter.
Did she say Seaworth?
Respect -2
Kartik Choudhary exactly i was like wutt?..
Kartik Choudhary F
nope,she said "key words"* clean your ears
@xellossaxon nope,she says kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkey words
@@Batnano are you deaf? how do you stress a K and make it sound like Ssssssseaworth?
3:03 of all the places he could have chose for Henry, he chose Henry of YORK lol
4:35
GRRM mentioning First Men names over a thousand years old
The Interviewer: *S E A W O R T H*
This video is FILLED with layers of information, love it
You know nothing X13
There was a 5 year old girl in my sons class called Kahleesi😜
Bet her parents kinda regret that now😂
Kahleesi or khaleesi? If it was the first one, well, parents kinda fucked up.
I need to turn my volume up to hear and understand GRRM in videos like these, but always end up having to crank it right down again when his interviewer begins squeaking
she's a good interviewer...she asked uncommon questions, deviating from questions George probably answered hundreds of times...and she interacts well.
She does her job so smoothly that people find nothing else to do besides criticise meaningless bullshit, like its perfectly acceptable not to like fantasy books, if she does her job well thats it.
2:52 "Shit, I don't know them, lets just laugh."
If Arya would watch this she would note to her prayer "... Ser Meryn Trant, Weese, weird Lady interviewing GRRM"
Her laugh...it sounds so similar it just helped me diagnose a rattling sound in my truck.
Same laugh also made me want to drive that fixed truck into a river with a scratch and sniff sticker on the floor board....then proceed to scratch AND sniff that sticker....while still underwater.
I’ve never heard George speak before
I always imagined him with a really soft deep voice
I wonder what the thought process was for naming multiple Walder Freys.
It's described in the books as since Walder Frey (the 90 year old) has so so many sons and grandsons and so forth, Freys started naming their sons Walder to gain slight leeway in obtaining some type of succession when OG Walder finally dies. They are basically just kissing his ass.
Also the name Hizdhar amongst the rulers of Meeren is pretty popular
Don’t give two characters a name that starts with the same letter.
Meanwhile Jojo: George, Joseph, Jotaro, Josuke, Giorno Giovanna, ….
Being a JoJo named George is one of the gentlest fates you can ask for in that universe
Let's not forget Jonathan Joestar, George JoestarI, Jack. Haha. If you're talking about Jojo's Bizarre adventure, please forgive me if you're not.
Johnathan, joline, johnny
Jolynes a good one
But there's a lot of characters in GRRM's books that start with the same letter.
This is the mad man who decided to name twins Arryk and Erryk.
Meanwhile he named some Tullys after the characters from the Muppets and Sesame Street, like Grover, Kermit, Elmo and Oscar Tully
And wonder why in god’s s name he did so
That fake laugh is so distracting and many more things! In the original 1 hour plus video the comment section has been disabled thanks to that laugh!!!
George: **exists**
Interviewer: 👁️👄👁️ 💭 0:55 1:31 2:04 2:11 2:17 2:32 2:44 2:47 2:52 2:55
(5:15 wth?) 5:26 5:31 5:34
Somebody let the mannequins out of the tikki room
It was while reading one of the Dune books that I really paused to think about the feel of names. Number of syllables, even vs. odd counts, balance between name parts, types of sounds used, etc.
I imagine that woman standing in front of her mirror practicing her fake laugh for hours before this interview.