{"id":7921,"date":"2022-11-20T20:32:53","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T03:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=7921"},"modified":"2022-11-20T20:32:53","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T03:32:53","slug":"talking-tolkien-and-my-stuff-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2022\/11\/20\/talking-tolkien-and-my-stuff-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking Tolkien &#8212; and My Stuff Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My appearance with Stephen Colbert was another highlight of my trip back east.<\/p>\n<p>You may have seen the episode as aired, but that one was cut for time.\u00a0\u00a0 The full version appeared only on line.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;I Wish I Had A Dragon I Could Fly To The Kremlin&quot; - EXTENDED INTERVIEW with George R.R. Martin\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QgCxVdsQH_k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This was the second time I&#8217;ve appeared on the Colbert show.\u00a0\u00a0 It is always a lot of fun.\u00a0\u00a0 Stephen is a big a fanboy (did someone say nerd?) as I am, a fan of science fiction, fantasy, comic books, and all the other stuff I love.\u00a0 He knows Niven, he knows Zelazny, he knows Arthur C. Clarke&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and don&#8217;t <em>ever<\/em> try to out-Tolkien him.\u00a0 After the show wrapped, we hung out in the green room for a couple of hours, talking TV shows and movies and books and Roger Z (a dear friend and mentor to me, and one of Stephen&#8217;s favorites), and in the course of time the subject of Gil-Galad came up (as it will).\u00a0\u00a0 I immediately said&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Gil-Galad was an elven king<br \/>\nof him the harpers sadly sing<br \/>\nthe last whose realm was fair and free<br \/>\nbetween the mountains and the sea<\/p>\n<p>Which is, alas, the only part I have memorized<\/p>\n<p>Stephen stepped in at once, and recited the rest of the poem.<\/p>\n<p>Well, of course he did.\u00a0\u00a0 The man speaks Elvish.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t even speak High Valyrian.\u00a0 Much.<\/p>\n<p><em>Valar dohaeris<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Oooh&#8230; and I almost forgot the cold open.<\/p>\n<p>That was fun too.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Will Our New Writer George R.R. Martin Finish The Monologue On Time?\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tl5zk0ivMM0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My appearance with Stephen Colbert was another highlight of my trip back east. You may have seen the episode as aired, but that one was cut for time.\u00a0\u00a0 The full version appeared only on line. This was the second time I&#8217;ve appeared on the Colbert show.\u00a0\u00a0 It is always a lot of fun.\u00a0\u00a0 Stephen is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[218],"tags":[50,89,62,71,11,76],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7921"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7921"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7926,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7921\/revisions\/7926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}