That could happen in The Winds of Winter, the long-in-coming sixth book in his series. “I am working on The Winds of Winter, it is 12 years late, but it will be done one of these days,” he said in the interview. Martin: The Winds of Winter “will be done one of these days” They didn’t build a bunch of stuff on top of the Rock of Gibralter they went in, and then then have tons of stone protecting them from any enemy who might wanna get in there and do them harm.”Īt some point, Martin hopes to set the record straight in A Song of Ice and Fire. “Someday I hope to actually get inside there in the books, to take the characters inside,” he said. “The castle is inside the rock, as fortifications were inside the Rock of Gibraltar. The way he conceived of it, Casterly Rock is literally a bit rock, not a castle on top of a rock. “That’s the way they did it in the TV show, and that’s just wrong,” he said. That said, Martin doesn’t think the show’s version of the castle is consistent with his vision. And it has so many more tunnels and caverns and halls that have been chiseled out and widened and decorated with carvings in the wall because it has thousands of more years for those to be done. It’s larger outside, it’s taller, it’s longer, it’s wider, it’s directly on the sea so there are docks underneath it where the ships can sail in. Martin explained how he used the Rock of Gibraltar as the basis for Casterly Rock during an interview with GBC News. “When you’re doing fantasy as opposed to historical fiction, you turn it up to 11,” he said. Casterly Rock is much the same thing, just way bigger, as is Martin’s wont. Casterly Rock is based on the real-life Rock of Gibraltar on the Iberian Peninsula, which is literally a big rock that’s been hollowed out from the inside to serve as a fortress. So it is with Casterly Rock, the home of the Lannister family. For instance, the Wall in the North is based on Hadrian’s Wall in England, just raised to dizzying heights and also there are ice zombies on the other side of it.

Martin based a lot of the places and events in his Song of Ice and Fire books on things in real life.

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