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    Fantastic Member Valentis's Avatar
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    Default Game of Thrones George Martin was bad with naming places.

    As well planned out and thought-through the world of Westeros and the characters are, George Martin had the laziest and poorly constructed names in fantasy and science fiction. He could not come up with anything more obvious to save his pen. It was one of his main weaknesses. These names are lazy with a capital L.

    Winterfell
    Iron Lands
    High Garden
    The Storm lands
    Riverlands
    Kings Landing
    Essos

    The names of his fantasy places all read like crop-out names created by a writer who is not fully experienced. J R R Tolkien was much more talented in coming up with names.

    Lord of the Rings

    Rivendell
    Isengard
    Mikwood
    Gondor
    Lothlórien
    Rohan
    Minas Tirith

    JK Rowling was also above Martin, although the Harry Potter universe was not entirely made up like Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones . The names of the wizarding schools and wizard towns names were more creative.

    Wizarding World of Harry Potter

    Hogsmeade
    Godric's Hollow
    Beauxbatons
    Durmstrang
    Hogwarts
    Ilvermorny
    Castelobruxo

    Science fiction writers are more creativity than Martin. They did not leach off Mars, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn and Neptune.

    Star Wars

    Coruscant
    Tatooine
    Endor
    Naboo
    Serenno
    Hoth

    Star Trek

    Vulcan
    Qo'noS
    Ferenginar
    Romulus
    Betazed
    Cardassia

    Unlike other creators, Martin only mostly seems to be twisting and adding words to common words like Winters, Kings, Gardens, Summers, East and Rivers to name places in Westeros. Nothing seem named from scratch.
    Last edited by Valentis; 05-14-2020 at 12:11 AM.

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