George R Martin's Core Beliefs: Life is very full of sex, or should be - Why Post-Modernism in Literature cannot die fast enough
And many other exclamations of frustration
In the Lord of the Rings, Faramir says at one point to Samwise Gamgee and Frodo Baggins, the line; “War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”
This is a very fascinating quote, one that was apparently one of the favourites’ of John Ronald Reul Tolkien. It has the echo of the Truth, of life itself and is arguably one of the most sincere lines ever written. It smacks of the ideal of Honour, of Chivalry, of Bushido, of the belief in defence of what one loves, of the righteousness of those who fight solely to defend their homelands, who fight to protect their children.
It is a line that speaks to a notion I spoke of the other day in Notes; that of Duty. It also speaks of the ideal of Honour, Self-Discipline and Sacrifice. All of them fine ideas, and ones that have had a great deal of influence over men since Homer first began to sing of the Wrath of Achilles and of the Nobility of Hektor.
It is an ideal that has transcended the Myceneans, those of the Greeks who joined Leonidas to hold off the Persians.
These are the same sentiments that inspired the Norse when they sang of course of the heroics of Odin, and of how he sought to delay Ragnarok, and sacrifice bits of his body, of his self for humanity. It is also the very same ideal that inspired the later Chivalric myths that involved the likes of Roland at Roncevalles when he blew his horn, and also of course the noble King Arthur who fell in battle against Mordred, Arthur sought to defend his Breton Kingdom against the Saxons who would despoil it or so the myths go.
We must now examine what motivated men since the days of Leonidas; politics, honour, love, hatred and of course, desire.
Let us determine what it was that motivated Charlemagne to counter the Saxon raids into his lands; faith. He believed in God, he felt that the despoiling of his lands by the Saxons was wrong and had to be countered permanently and what was the best way of doing that? By converting the Saxons.
Then you have the actions of the likes of the defenders of Constantinople in 1453, could anyone say they were motivated by anything less than their faith and their love for their country?
What of those in World Wars One & Two? What motivated Charles DeGaulle? What motivated those men who marched to their doom on D-Day?
“War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”
Seems the appropriate words.
Yet let us now examine that most pedophilic of propagandists- I mean that most obtuse of writers and ‘post-modernist’ of ‘literary’ ‘thinkers’. George R. Martin.
Martin has a new quote making the rounds over on twitter. Sadly this new quote is dumber than the first. Where the first was him being deliberately obtuse as he sought to sneer at Tolkien, now he reveals his contempt very much openly once more yet reveals more about himself than honestly anyone likely cared to see.
And as people on twitter have poor powers of discernment, and a certain inability to my understanding to know how to counter Martin’s honestly stupid arguments. I find myself once more picking up the baton, and having to counter his boring statement.
First part to analyze; ‘Life is very full of sex’ this is an obvious statement, and certainly true. It is not however it that is so ridiculous, but it does give insight into what Martin values; he does not hold the ideals in the quote; “War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.” in very high regard but rather holds up sex itself as a value.
He then says that he admires Tolkien and that; ‘he was a giant of fantasy and a giant of literature, and I think he wrote a great book that will be read for many years,’ this is a very true statement in and of itself.
The trouble though is that this statement is followed by a ‘buuuuuut’ which completely disregards the supposed ‘admiration’ (in reality resentment) of Martin.
But one cannot help but hasten to add if one wished to be petty that certainly Lord of the Rings and even the Hobbit will be read for many a years to come. The Truth is that Game of Thrones and its ilk has already faded from the public memory and will be replaced by the next fad.
The reason for this? The sole thing that inspires and motivates Game of Thrones is sex. Martin has admitted that it is what he views as most transcendent. Because he views Sex in this light, he cannot imagine a higher state of man, a man aiming to achieve more than just Sex. He must pour the whole of his characters existence into it, he must place it above real ideals and real thought.
Because of this Ned Stark is very much a buffoon, and the likes of the incompetent sex-addled, drunkard Lannisters must triumph. Why? Because Sex must win.
I understand many will be offended when I say that Martin is typical of the civilizational rot that has set in where people in the Media refuse to tell tales of heroism and goodness. The Truth is that one can tell a lot about a Civilization by the stories it tells about itself.
Now let us ask ourselves what Britain used to say about itself? In the same years that Lord of the Rings was written, there was Narnia, there was Nigel Tranter’s History of Scotland series, there was Cue for Treason and so many more.
What of America? Hour of the Dragon, the various Conan and Kull tales, Lloyd Alexander’s Prydain stories, there were the magnificent stories of heroism on the part of Zorro, the Shadow, Doc Strange, Superman and so many others.
These were once upon a time the stories that America told about herself. The stories she spread throughout her Empire.
What is more is that at one time Lloyd Alexander, that most famous of children’s authors, and genial old man extraordinaire was dubbed the ‘Tolkien of America.’ Once upon a time. America took pride in him.
But now his tales are no longer passed down. Why? Because the fad of the 2010s was post-modernist nonsense that rots a nation. It was similar nihilistic ideas that rotted Rome, rotted the Han, rotted the Greek Empire of Constantinople and that has now come home to roost in the land of the Yankees.
And with it comes decadence and the worship of Sex.
Now it is Martin who is dubbed the ‘Tolkien of America’ a farcical notion that has no basis in the practical reality. The reason for this is that Martin is incapable of writing tales of honour, of chivalry, of faith, of goodness because let us be honest… he has precious little of it in him. He has no belief in it. He has only scorn for it, as is evident in all his tales.
The ideal of Sex spoken so highly of in this quote bespeaks to a man in despair, a man who hates the good, hates the ideals for which Tolkien nearly sacrificed his life, the ideals he lost his surrogate family the TCBS for, and the ideals for which he wrote about the rest of his life. The same ideals deep down of honour, goodness and Truth that Howard wrote about before he tragically took his life.
The next part is; ‘you do have to wonder where all those Hobbits came from, since you can’t imagine Hobbits having sex, can you?’
Why would we even want this? What he’s seemingly advocating for is Hobbit porn. Naturally no one with two brain-cells actually believes he believes this is what he wants. The Truth is far more sinister; he seeks to subvert and destroy Tolkien, as this is the task he assigned himself since the 90s.
It is why his books and show got pushed forward so hard in the 2010s. Subversion, deconstruction/destruction. The idea here if we’re being honest is to destroy Tolkien’s good name and the status he enjoys throughout the world, by making him a figure of mockery and ridicule.
Here’s something interesting; in China did you know dear Readers that the Chinese hold Tolkien in high regard? There are conventions, and they are very warmly treated, respected and honoured. Yes, that very same China that is supposed to be opposed to America and the Anglosphere deep down loves the greatest epics ever written in the English language and every year thousands if not millions gather together to celebrate him on Hobbit Day and Tolkien Reading Day. Is there talk of Hobbit porn? Perhaps, though it is unlikely to be something that is taken terribly seriously by the avid fans there, from when I spoke to some of them who love my Brothers Arda channel over on youtube, many of them loved Tolkien for the themes of brotherhood, romance, chivalry and of course masculinity and femininity all things Martin has always spoken out against.
The notion being that we should sneer at Tolkien for not having Hobbits romping, even the momentary consideration of sneering at him or laughing at this joke is what Martin intends. Because if he can get us to momentarily disregard Tolkien, he will have scored a MASSIVE victory against one of the greatest pillars of the present day Anglo-American Civilization.
Now that said, with regards to Tolkien’s actual in-universe treatment here of sex between Hobbits, Samwise Gamgee and Rosie were to have 13 kids in the actual story with Aragorn & Arwen in turn having at least one son and several daughters. So sex does play a role, the difference is that Tolkien doesn’t concentrate upon it, because he has a story to tell, and is not writing a porno.
Martin’s next line is; ‘Well, sex is an important part of who we are.’
No Martin, this is an important part of degenerates. The Truth is that sex is important to every marriage, and many romances certainly, however the reality is that anyone who defines themselves by their sexual impulses are little more than the lowliest of animals. I say so because even animals value things such as their cubs, their mates and their pack-members more than those who value only sex.
This is more than we might expect from the likes of Martin though, and if you feel I have been unduly harsh with him up to this point it is that I am fatigued. I do not hate him but am exhausted by his resolve to be obtuseness, his pushing degeneracy and his blatant and proud attempt to corrupt and sink post-modernist fangs into what I consider to be the greatest genre in literary history. So defense must be made.
Let us continue (apologies for dilly-dallying there); ‘It drives us, it motivates us, it makes us do sometimes very noble things and it makes us do sometimes incredibly stupid things.’
What King Moron means here is that sex is an energy field it binds us, and ties us together- oh wait that’s the Force in Star Wars.
Sex doesn’t drive us, motivate us or make us do noble things. It is an impulse borne from our desire to procreate or seek physical pleasure. Let us not glorify it. The fact is that what drives us individually are certainly wants, but likely those of us who can think desire say a home, a family, a dog, or even a girl, or a boy, or a thing such as a book.
Sex in itself can be a motivation but to say it is all that motivates or that it is the primary one is a fallacy. We are not as a species motivated by it inherently, but oddly enough by Faith. All men need a god. Some have God. Some have Buddha, some have feminism, some have the state, some have capitalism, some have communism. These are all things people worship.
Aragorn in LOTR worships his friendship with others and his love for Arwen. Love and sex are two entirely different things. Love comes from the soul, sexual desire from the body.
Sex by its very nature cannot motivate us to do noble things. It is a bodily function, that on a purely scientific level is intended for procreation. And what if I was to say ‘peeing is what motivates us to nobility’, what’s the difference? When I need to go, it is all that motivates me. What if I argue that the reason Stark did not immediately deal with Cersei was because he had to pee? You see how ridiculous it is? But if I was obsessed with this, or with dung, or with breathing, or with arms I could say these things motivated him to nobility, or Jon Snow to kill Daenaerys? You see how ridiculous it sounds?
I pour scorn because it is merited. The ‘West’ built a good chunk of itself upon the ideals proposed by Jesus in the Bible, and upon the Stoic ideals of the Classical Thinkers, and also upon the ideals of Chivalry that the heirs of Charlemagne loved more dearly than their own lives. This is fact. These are the ideals that have pushed the ‘Men of the West’ to do noble things. Therefore to say Sex motivated them is one of the stupidest statements ever made, and the Fact is that in literature those characters primarily motivated by their carnal desires were used as warnings and were rightfully treated with scorn by readers and listeners and other characters. Why? Because Man must aspire higher than bestialness.
This always was what motivated our ancestors. Their literature and myths reflect this. Those of present day America scorns these things. That is to say those not written by Indie writers, those who are vastly superior minds, thinkers and philosophers (and even better at writing in terms of prose, counterpoint and poetry) than Martin.
As to making us do stupid things. Certainly, those ruled by their loins tend to out themselves. The most debauched in society often evoke horror and disgust by normal people. And why is this? Most people have better sense than post-modernist thinkers like to believe. Normies are smarter than this, why? Simply ask them. What do you value?
I have. I’ve been told things like; ‘my kids’, or ‘my dog’, or ‘my wife’, or ‘my husband’, ‘my books’, ‘my dad’, ‘my mom’ and so on. What might Martin say of these things? Would he say those who said their dad or their dog wish to mate with them? This was not the case with these people, so that the statement would be a fallacy and even he would know it. But his job as an agent of destruction isn’t to mock these people but rather to discredit them, to try to bring them down to his level and his peers’ in academia’s level.
‘Leave it out, and you’ve got an incomplete world.’
This last quote shows how openly he disdains Tolkien. I know it has been said he’s a fan of Tolkien. But I’m tired of pretending that he is. He isn’t. No fan speaks of Tolkien in this manner.
I’ve offered criticism towards Tolkien’s works (check it out on Brothers Arda), I’ve complained about the repeated use of the word ‘said’ when say ‘hiss’ or ‘declared’ or ‘yelled’ might have served better. I’ve complained endlessly about the Mariner’s Wife to any who will listen about that story. I also have complaints about Denethor and kind of give Jackson a little slack therewith his portrayal as I think there was a good reason he depicted him in unlikeable manner. Jackson took it too far and some nobility and complexity of the book character should have shone through.
But the truth is Tolkien was a master. To suggest his world is incomplete because it doesn’t have a single sex scene, or doesn’t emphasize sex above all else is insulting.
The reason Martin does this though is because he’s inherently dishonest. We all know he is. He wishes to tear down the myth-maker professor. Because if we stop to love Tolkien, if we stop to hold him up, if we stop passing down his stories because we would prefer to read porn and would prefer to believe in sex over the ideals of Chivalry, of Goodness, over the value of the Truth, we will have truly fallen. And we will never get back up.
If you think I’m reading too much into it, fine. But I’m tired. I’m so very, very, very tired of Martin’s bs. I’m tired of seeing him held up, am weary of his nonsensical statements and am tired of pretending he’s some authority. He’s sold because the Media pushed him forward.
If the Media were to say champion
or or let’s say myself, we’d sell no less well than Martin. Why is that? Martin sold fairly well before the Media jumped on him, but then when they did in 2011 he became a Millionaire.His series is mediocre at best. It is not true Fantasy. It does not uphold the traditional values one should aspire to, it is not blessed with the Spirit of Truth that Fantasy embodies (this phrase is taken from
and it is mediocre in its descriptions, it is middling in its world-building with regards to the ‘religious structure’ as all religious characters are insane, and the Church is mocked and shown to be little more than a political organization, and one that we don’t know the rituals, ceremonies, and the ideals of.Now Martin has done a good job with the baronial structure of his world. He has done a good job structuring the history of the noble families.
But the plot, the pacing of his GoT story, of his Duck- I mean Dunk story, of his F&B story is nothing to write home about.
He’s no Gemmell, he’s no Tolkien, no Howard, nor is he Lewis or Alexander or even one of the proud, great writers of Fantasy in the 80s.
What is more is that the world a ‘Fantasy-Writer’ builds is a reflection of the writer, or so a journalist once said about Tolkien. Sneering at him that there is no relations between boys and girls, all the good little boys come home from the war and all live happily ever after.
Yes, a journalist said something to this effect look it up, Tolkien mentions this in a video.
Academia has said this for decades about Howard, because he had Conan liberate black-men and call them ‘blacks’. Conan was shown to love them as brothers, and Howard believed in defending them, yet his world was said to be a reflection of his soul, because he wrote a character inspired by the likes of Emperors Zeno of Constantinople and also by Charlemagne. What does Howard’s love of barbarians and love of the most primitive side of man say about him? He loves and believes Man is deep down good.
What does Martin’s world say about him?
You know what it says about him? He has a black soul. He has a wicked heart, and doesn’t believe in goodness. He doesn’t believe in righteousness.
I’m always careful about what I write, I’m always keen to play nice with my readers. I love you all. Every word, every comment, every criticism, every praise is as gold to me. I love every interaction. I also love how much people like my humble essays.
I have a problem with the post-modernist ideology. I have a problem with attempts to normalize through my favourite genre, the most heinous of crimes. I have a problem with intellectual dishonesty.
Because I believe men are motivated by more than just sex. There’s fear, there’s anger, there’s love, there’s honour, there’s sadness, there’s reason, there’s logic, there’s liberalism, there’s Christianity. Same goes for women, they can be honourable, kind, funny, genial, courteous, angry, whiny, fussy, unpleasant, endearing, pious, and beautiful.
We all have good in us. Sex is not good or evil. But to say it is all we can aspire to, and that it is the sum total of what those who love world-building fantasy worlds should aspire to is wrong. It is also from a philosophical point of view dangerous.
Especially when we ought to be aiming for the heavens, to help one another, and to inspire one another.
Middle-Earth is incomplete without sex he says? Tolkien’s work is incomplete and ergo ought to be considered no longer as legitimate as GOT because it does not espouse the ‘Faith of Sex’? Wrong, Martin has it backwards. If one’s story is focused entirely on Sex with nothing else to it, it becomes incomplete.
And if you’ve read this far, here’s a superior story to any and all of Martin’s;
The Darkspire Conspiracy Substack novel is one about the pursuit of Justice, after a girl’s father-figure is brutally murdered for a map he had to the Kingdom’s Darkest Secret, so that she sets out to avenge him and prove herself.
Or why not if you like books instead the Crown of Blood here’s a blurb about it;
Three Kingly Lines – One Crown…
The King is dead, and the throne lies empty. Many vie for the crown, slaying any who stand between them and the power it grants. But can any survive the curse that plagues the Kings of Caledonia?
Pretty cool right? Great, so buy a copy and see for yourself.
I market myself, because why not? Am I motivated by sex here? Non. I’m motivated by frustration. I’m motivated by exasperation, and by the desire to put this post tearing apart Martin’s silly comment to shreds to use.
Why? I do have a Susbtack and a book to market/sell.
But if you prefer a less self-interested view; check out
or for those who like philosophy; might all be up your alleys.But let us put this ‘Sex vs Tradition’ argument to rest. So if you see someone lugging the above image with Martin’s preposterous quote around. Share him this article. Heck send it to Martin I do not care.
I simply advocate for us to select what we consume mentally with the same care we consume food with. Your mind and heart deserves better.
The nerve of the fat goblin to talk of incompleteness!
Know what's really incomplete? George's series!
I'm sure plenty of noble trolls and regular humans have thrown that one in his face.
This is the reminder that the two Rs in George's name both stand for rape.
Isn't it interesting that Tolkien's works are thrown to the dogs in TV media with Rings of Powah, but George's House of the Dragon doesn't get such a sham of a production?
It's enough to make one put on a tinfoil crusader helm.
What's funny is I've been one of the few who was always against Martin's writings, but if I speak out I'm shut down. But now that's changing—now that he's speaking against Tolkien, people have jumped off his bandwagon and it's becoming normal to criticize him. He thought himself on Tolkien's level and his arrogance has backfired.