Gravemaster
Знаменосец
Британское издательство Джорджа Мартина, Harper Collins, запостили в своем твиттере фотографии письма 1993 года Джорджа Мартина своему литаратурному агенту, Ральфу Вичинанце, где он кратко изложил сюжет трилогии ПЛиО. Тогда он только взялся за сагу и только наисал 13 глав, поэтому много чего из его раннего видения ПЛиО сильно отличается от ПЛиО, что мы знаем сейчас. Вот основные моменты, которые мы раньше не знали или знали частично.
- Планировалось 3 основных конфликта. Один на каждую книгу: Старки и Ланнистеры (Игра Престолов), вторжение Дейнерис с армией дотракийцев в Вестерос (Танец с Драконами) и Иные (Ветра Зимы)
- Только 5 основных персонажей должны оставаться живыми на протяжении всей трилогии: Тирион, Дейнерис, Арья, Бран и Джон.
- Перед пленением, Нед помогает Кейтлин и Арье сбежать из Королевской Гавани в Винтерфелл.
- Санса должна была родить сына от Джоффри и решающий момент предпочтесть мужа и сына родителям и братьям с сестрой.
- В ходе событий, Тирион должен был подружиться с Сансой и Арьей, но чувствовать себя чужим в своей собственной семье.
- Бран после комы занимается магией и предупреждает Робба, чтобы тот не созывал знамена против Ланнистеров, так как в момент казни Неда, он видит надвигающийся на них ужас. Робб не слушает Брана и идет на войну. Он выигрывает несколько битв и даже калечит Джоффри на поле боя, но в конце концов проигрывает войну Джейме и Тириону. Тирион осадит и сожгет Винтерфелл.
- ЛК на Стене является Бенджен Старк, а Джон разведчик. Джон потом становится ЛК. Когда Винтерфелл пал, Кэт с Арьей и Браном едут на Стену. Бенджен не может их принять, так как в Ночном Дозоре люди отрекаются от своих семей. Это создает отдаленность между Джоном и Браном, но Арья более простительна. Арья, к своему ужасу, потом осознает, что влюблена в Джона. Их страсть их мучит на протяжение всей трилогии до того момента, когда в последней книге раскрывается секрет о настоящих родителях Джона.
- Кейтлин с Арьей и Браном в поисках убежища отправляются за Стену и попадают к Мансу Налетчику. Пока они там, Иные атакуют лагерь одичалых. Арья со своей Иглой и Бран со своей магией выживают, но Кэт убивают Иные.
- Когда Дрого убивает Визериса, Дени этого не прощает. Она ждет и, когда настает подходящее время, мстит за брата, убив Дрого. Она сбегает с Джорахом Мормонтом, но их преследуют дотракийцы. Все еще в бегах, они находят драконьи яйца. Тут плохо видно, но понятно, что с драконами она обретает власть над дотракийцами и начинает планировать свое вторжение в Вестерос.
- Тирион продолжает путешествовать, строить заговоры и играть в игру престолов. Он убивает Джоффри из-за его жестокости. Джейме становится королем после Джоффри, убив всех остальных претендентов (возможно, в том числе и Сансу с ее ребенком от Джоффри, Станниса и Ренли) и обвинив во всех убийствах Тириона. В изгнании, Тирион переходит к Старкам, чтобы убрать своего брата и безответно влюбляется в Арью, что приводит к вражде между ним и Джоном Сноу.
[Концовка замазана]
Полный перевод на русский.
Вот сам текст для тех, кому сложно рязглядеть. Текст не полный, так как на стекло, через которое фоткали, падало солнце и не видно тех частей.
- Планировалось 3 основных конфликта. Один на каждую книгу: Старки и Ланнистеры (Игра Престолов), вторжение Дейнерис с армией дотракийцев в Вестерос (Танец с Драконами) и Иные (Ветра Зимы)
- Только 5 основных персонажей должны оставаться живыми на протяжении всей трилогии: Тирион, Дейнерис, Арья, Бран и Джон.
- Перед пленением, Нед помогает Кейтлин и Арье сбежать из Королевской Гавани в Винтерфелл.
- Санса должна была родить сына от Джоффри и решающий момент предпочтесть мужа и сына родителям и братьям с сестрой.
- В ходе событий, Тирион должен был подружиться с Сансой и Арьей, но чувствовать себя чужим в своей собственной семье.
- Бран после комы занимается магией и предупреждает Робба, чтобы тот не созывал знамена против Ланнистеров, так как в момент казни Неда, он видит надвигающийся на них ужас. Робб не слушает Брана и идет на войну. Он выигрывает несколько битв и даже калечит Джоффри на поле боя, но в конце концов проигрывает войну Джейме и Тириону. Тирион осадит и сожгет Винтерфелл.
- ЛК на Стене является Бенджен Старк, а Джон разведчик. Джон потом становится ЛК. Когда Винтерфелл пал, Кэт с Арьей и Браном едут на Стену. Бенджен не может их принять, так как в Ночном Дозоре люди отрекаются от своих семей. Это создает отдаленность между Джоном и Браном, но Арья более простительна. Арья, к своему ужасу, потом осознает, что влюблена в Джона. Их страсть их мучит на протяжение всей трилогии до того момента, когда в последней книге раскрывается секрет о настоящих родителях Джона.
- Кейтлин с Арьей и Браном в поисках убежища отправляются за Стену и попадают к Мансу Налетчику. Пока они там, Иные атакуют лагерь одичалых. Арья со своей Иглой и Бран со своей магией выживают, но Кэт убивают Иные.
- Когда Дрого убивает Визериса, Дени этого не прощает. Она ждет и, когда настает подходящее время, мстит за брата, убив Дрого. Она сбегает с Джорахом Мормонтом, но их преследуют дотракийцы. Все еще в бегах, они находят драконьи яйца. Тут плохо видно, но понятно, что с драконами она обретает власть над дотракийцами и начинает планировать свое вторжение в Вестерос.
- Тирион продолжает путешествовать, строить заговоры и играть в игру престолов. Он убивает Джоффри из-за его жестокости. Джейме становится королем после Джоффри, убив всех остальных претендентов (возможно, в том числе и Сансу с ее ребенком от Джоффри, Станниса и Ренли) и обвинив во всех убийствах Тириона. В изгнании, Тирион переходит к Старкам, чтобы убрать своего брата и безответно влюбляется в Арью, что приводит к вражде между ним и Джоном Сноу.
[Концовка замазана]
Полный перевод на русский.
Вот сам текст для тех, кому сложно рязглядеть. Текст не полный, так как на стекло, через которое фоткали, падало солнце и не видно тех частей.
Dear Ralph,
Here are the first thirteen chapters (170 pages) of the high fantasy novel I promised you which I'm calling "A Game of Thrones". When completed, this will be the first volume in what I see as an epic trilogy with the overall title "A Song of Ice and Fire".
As you know, I don't outline my novels. I find that if I know exactly where a book is going, I loose all interest in writing it. I do, however, have some strong notions as to the overall structure of the story I'm telling and the eventual fate of many of the principal characters in the drama.
Roughly speaking, there are three major conflicts set in motion in the chapters enclosed. These will form the major plot threads of the trilogy, intert-------- each other in what should be a complex but exciting (I hope ------- tapestry. Each of the conflicts presents a major threat ------- of my imaginary realm, the Seven Kingdoms and to the lives of my principal characters.
The first threat grows from the emnity between the great houses of Lannister and Stark as it plays out in the cycle of plot, counterplot, ambition and revenge with the iron throne of the Seven Kingdoms as the ultimate prize. This will form the backbone of the first volume of the trilogy, "A Game of Thrones".
While the lion of Lannister and the direwolf of Stark snarl and scrap, however, a second and greater threat takes shape across the narrow sea, where the Dothraki horselords mass their barbarian hordes for Daenerys Stormborn, the last of the Targaryen dragonlords. The dothraki invasion will be the central story of my second volume, "A Dance with Dragons".
The greatest danger of all, however, comes from the north, from the icy wastes of beyond the Wall, where half-forgotten demons out of legend, the inhuman Others, raise cold legions of the undead and the neverborn and prepare to ride down on the winds of winter to extinguish everything that we would call "life". The only thing that stands between the Seven Kingdoms and an endless night is the Wall and a handful of men in black called the Night's Watch. Their story will be heart of my third volume, "The Winds of Winter". The final battle will also draw together characters and plot threads left from the first two books and resolve all in one huge climax.
The thirteen chapters on hand should give you a notion as to my narrative strategy. All three books will feature a complex mosaic of intercutting points-of-view among various of my large and diverse cast of players. the cast will not always remain the same. Old characters will die and new one will be introduced. Some of the fatalities will include sympathetic viewpoint characters. I want the reader to feel that no one is ever completely safe, not even the characters who seem to be the heroes. The suspense always ratchets up a notion when you know that any character can die at any time.
Five central characters will make it through all three volumes, however, growing from children to adults and changing the world and themselves in the process. In a sense, my trilogy is a generational saga, telling the life stories of these five characters, three men and two women. The five key players are Tyrion Lannister, Daenerys Targaryen and the three of the children of Winterfell, Arya, Bran and the bastard Jon Snow. All of them are introduced in the chapters you have to hand.
This is going to be (I hope) quite an epic. Epic in its scale, epic in its sotion and epic in its length. I see all three volumes as big books, running about 700 to 800 manuscript pages, so things are barely getting underway in the thirteen chapters I've sent you.
I have quite a clear notion of how the story will unfold in the first volume, A Game of Thrones. Things will get a lot worse for the poor Starks before they get better, I'm afraid. Lord Eddard Stark and his wife Catelyn Tully are both doomed, and will parish at the hands of their enemies. Ned will discover what happened to his friend Jon Arryn, but before he can act on his knowlegde, King Robert will have an unfortunate accident and the throne will past to his ---- and brutal son Joffrey, still a minor. Joffrey will not be sympathetic and Ned will be accused of treason, but before he is taken, he will help his wife and his daughter Aryan escape back to Winterfell.
Each of the contending families will learn it has a member of dubious loyalty in its midst. Sansa Stark, wed to Joffrey Baratheon, will bear him a son, the heir to the throne and when the crunch comes, she will choose her husband and child over over her parents and siblings, a choice she will later bitterly rue. Tyrion Lannister, meanwhile, befriend both Sansa and her sister Arya, while growing more and more disenchanted with his own family.
Young Bran will come out of his coma, after a strange prophetic dream, only to discover that he will never walk again. He will turn to magic, at first in the hope of restoring his legs, but later for its own sake. When his father Eddard Stark is executed, Bran will see the shape of doom descending on all of them, but nothing he can say will stop his brother Robb from calling the banners in rebellion. All the north will be inflamed by war. Robb will win several splendid victories, and maim Joffrey on the battlefield, but in the end he will not be able to stand against Jaime and Tyrion Lannister and their allies. Robb Stark will die in battle and Tyrion Lannister will besiege and burn Winterfell.
Jon Snow, the bastard, will remain in the far north. He will mature into a ranger of great daring and ultimately will succeed his uncle as the commander of the Night's Watch. When Winterfell burns, Catelyn will be forced to flee north with her son Bran and daughter Arya. Hounded by Lannister riders, they will seek refuge at the Wall, but the men of the Night's Watch give up their families when they take the black and Jon and Benjen will not be able to help, to Jon's anguish. It will lead to a bitter estrangement between Jon and Bran. Arya will be more forgiving...until she realises, with terror, that she has fallen in love with Jon, who is not only her half-brother but a man of the Night's Watch, sworn to celibacy. Their passion will continue to torment Jon and Arya throughout the trilogy, until the secret of Jon's parentage is finally revealed in the last book.
Abandoned by the Night's Watch, Catelyn and her children will find their only hope of safety lies even further north, beyond the Wall, where they fall into the hands of Mance Rayder, the King-Beyond-the-Wall, and get a deardful glimpse of the inhuman Others as they attack the wildling encampment. Bran's magic, Arya's sword Needle and the savagery of their direwolves will help them survive. but their mother Catelyn will die at the hands of the Others.
Over across the narrow sea, Daenerys Targaryen will discover that her new husband, the Dothraki Khal Drogo, has little interest in invading the Seven Kingdoms, much to her brother's frustration. When Viserys presses his claims past the point of tact or wisdom, Khal Drogo will grow annoyed and will kill him out of hand, eliminating the Targaryen pretender and leaving Daenerys as the last of her line. Daenerys will bide her time, but she will not forget. When the moment is right, she will kill her husband to avenge her brother, and then flee with a trusted friend into the wilderness beyond Vaes Dothrak. There, hunted by Dothraki Bloodriders ------------ of her life, she stumbles on a cachet of dragon's eggs ----- of a young dragon will give Daenerys the power to bend the dothraki to her will. Then she begins to plan for her invasion of the Seven Kingdoms.
Tyrion Lannister will continue to travel, to plot, and to play the game of thrones, finally removing his nephew Joffrey in disgust at the boy king's brutality. Jamie Lannister will follow on the throne of the Seven Kingdoms, by the simple expedient of killing everyone ahead of him in the line of succession and and blaming his brother Tyrion for the murders. Exiled, Tyrion will change sides, making common cause with the with the surviving Starks to bring his brother down and falling helplessly in love with Arya Stark while he's at it. His passion is, alas, unreciprocated, but no less intense for that, and will lead to deadly rivalry between Tyrion and Jon Snow.
Замазано
But that's the second book...
I hope you will find some editors who are as excited about all of this as I am. Feel free to share this letter with anyone who wants to know how the story will go.
Here are the first thirteen chapters (170 pages) of the high fantasy novel I promised you which I'm calling "A Game of Thrones". When completed, this will be the first volume in what I see as an epic trilogy with the overall title "A Song of Ice and Fire".
As you know, I don't outline my novels. I find that if I know exactly where a book is going, I loose all interest in writing it. I do, however, have some strong notions as to the overall structure of the story I'm telling and the eventual fate of many of the principal characters in the drama.
Roughly speaking, there are three major conflicts set in motion in the chapters enclosed. These will form the major plot threads of the trilogy, intert-------- each other in what should be a complex but exciting (I hope ------- tapestry. Each of the conflicts presents a major threat ------- of my imaginary realm, the Seven Kingdoms and to the lives of my principal characters.
The first threat grows from the emnity between the great houses of Lannister and Stark as it plays out in the cycle of plot, counterplot, ambition and revenge with the iron throne of the Seven Kingdoms as the ultimate prize. This will form the backbone of the first volume of the trilogy, "A Game of Thrones".
While the lion of Lannister and the direwolf of Stark snarl and scrap, however, a second and greater threat takes shape across the narrow sea, where the Dothraki horselords mass their barbarian hordes for Daenerys Stormborn, the last of the Targaryen dragonlords. The dothraki invasion will be the central story of my second volume, "A Dance with Dragons".
The greatest danger of all, however, comes from the north, from the icy wastes of beyond the Wall, where half-forgotten demons out of legend, the inhuman Others, raise cold legions of the undead and the neverborn and prepare to ride down on the winds of winter to extinguish everything that we would call "life". The only thing that stands between the Seven Kingdoms and an endless night is the Wall and a handful of men in black called the Night's Watch. Their story will be heart of my third volume, "The Winds of Winter". The final battle will also draw together characters and plot threads left from the first two books and resolve all in one huge climax.
The thirteen chapters on hand should give you a notion as to my narrative strategy. All three books will feature a complex mosaic of intercutting points-of-view among various of my large and diverse cast of players. the cast will not always remain the same. Old characters will die and new one will be introduced. Some of the fatalities will include sympathetic viewpoint characters. I want the reader to feel that no one is ever completely safe, not even the characters who seem to be the heroes. The suspense always ratchets up a notion when you know that any character can die at any time.
Five central characters will make it through all three volumes, however, growing from children to adults and changing the world and themselves in the process. In a sense, my trilogy is a generational saga, telling the life stories of these five characters, three men and two women. The five key players are Tyrion Lannister, Daenerys Targaryen and the three of the children of Winterfell, Arya, Bran and the bastard Jon Snow. All of them are introduced in the chapters you have to hand.
This is going to be (I hope) quite an epic. Epic in its scale, epic in its sotion and epic in its length. I see all three volumes as big books, running about 700 to 800 manuscript pages, so things are barely getting underway in the thirteen chapters I've sent you.
I have quite a clear notion of how the story will unfold in the first volume, A Game of Thrones. Things will get a lot worse for the poor Starks before they get better, I'm afraid. Lord Eddard Stark and his wife Catelyn Tully are both doomed, and will parish at the hands of their enemies. Ned will discover what happened to his friend Jon Arryn, but before he can act on his knowlegde, King Robert will have an unfortunate accident and the throne will past to his ---- and brutal son Joffrey, still a minor. Joffrey will not be sympathetic and Ned will be accused of treason, but before he is taken, he will help his wife and his daughter Aryan escape back to Winterfell.
Each of the contending families will learn it has a member of dubious loyalty in its midst. Sansa Stark, wed to Joffrey Baratheon, will bear him a son, the heir to the throne and when the crunch comes, she will choose her husband and child over over her parents and siblings, a choice she will later bitterly rue. Tyrion Lannister, meanwhile, befriend both Sansa and her sister Arya, while growing more and more disenchanted with his own family.
Young Bran will come out of his coma, after a strange prophetic dream, only to discover that he will never walk again. He will turn to magic, at first in the hope of restoring his legs, but later for its own sake. When his father Eddard Stark is executed, Bran will see the shape of doom descending on all of them, but nothing he can say will stop his brother Robb from calling the banners in rebellion. All the north will be inflamed by war. Robb will win several splendid victories, and maim Joffrey on the battlefield, but in the end he will not be able to stand against Jaime and Tyrion Lannister and their allies. Robb Stark will die in battle and Tyrion Lannister will besiege and burn Winterfell.
Jon Snow, the bastard, will remain in the far north. He will mature into a ranger of great daring and ultimately will succeed his uncle as the commander of the Night's Watch. When Winterfell burns, Catelyn will be forced to flee north with her son Bran and daughter Arya. Hounded by Lannister riders, they will seek refuge at the Wall, but the men of the Night's Watch give up their families when they take the black and Jon and Benjen will not be able to help, to Jon's anguish. It will lead to a bitter estrangement between Jon and Bran. Arya will be more forgiving...until she realises, with terror, that she has fallen in love with Jon, who is not only her half-brother but a man of the Night's Watch, sworn to celibacy. Their passion will continue to torment Jon and Arya throughout the trilogy, until the secret of Jon's parentage is finally revealed in the last book.
Abandoned by the Night's Watch, Catelyn and her children will find their only hope of safety lies even further north, beyond the Wall, where they fall into the hands of Mance Rayder, the King-Beyond-the-Wall, and get a deardful glimpse of the inhuman Others as they attack the wildling encampment. Bran's magic, Arya's sword Needle and the savagery of their direwolves will help them survive. but their mother Catelyn will die at the hands of the Others.
Over across the narrow sea, Daenerys Targaryen will discover that her new husband, the Dothraki Khal Drogo, has little interest in invading the Seven Kingdoms, much to her brother's frustration. When Viserys presses his claims past the point of tact or wisdom, Khal Drogo will grow annoyed and will kill him out of hand, eliminating the Targaryen pretender and leaving Daenerys as the last of her line. Daenerys will bide her time, but she will not forget. When the moment is right, she will kill her husband to avenge her brother, and then flee with a trusted friend into the wilderness beyond Vaes Dothrak. There, hunted by Dothraki Bloodriders ------------ of her life, she stumbles on a cachet of dragon's eggs ----- of a young dragon will give Daenerys the power to bend the dothraki to her will. Then she begins to plan for her invasion of the Seven Kingdoms.
Tyrion Lannister will continue to travel, to plot, and to play the game of thrones, finally removing his nephew Joffrey in disgust at the boy king's brutality. Jamie Lannister will follow on the throne of the Seven Kingdoms, by the simple expedient of killing everyone ahead of him in the line of succession and and blaming his brother Tyrion for the murders. Exiled, Tyrion will change sides, making common cause with the with the surviving Starks to bring his brother down and falling helplessly in love with Arya Stark while he's at it. His passion is, alas, unreciprocated, but no less intense for that, and will lead to deadly rivalry between Tyrion and Jon Snow.
Замазано
But that's the second book...
I hope you will find some editors who are as excited about all of this as I am. Feel free to share this letter with anyone who wants to know how the story will go.
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