Нешто што прочитав на интернет, ама МОРАМ да споделам тука, многу убаво напишано и многу ме замисли:
„This isn't a story that ends with "happily ever after". That's where we started. This whole series is the sequel to a book never written. A classic fantasy, about heroes who fought against an unambiguous evil, about people who took their lives and their honor into their own hands and stormed the gates of the mad king. The brave hero became king and married a beautiful woman, his friend and comrade returned home to raise his family in happiness in the keep of his forefathers, and they all lived happily ever after.
But the brave hero doesn't know how to rule, and the beautiful woman he married isn't just a trophy for being a legendary hero, but a real person with her own flaws and needs that he doesn't know how to handle. He only ever felt at home on the battlefield, and deep down he knows that that makes him a monster. He can't forget the smell of blood in his nostrils any more than he can forget the touch of a woman who is not his wife. Neither whores nor wine nor food will fill that hole. And far to the north, his loyal vassal, his comrade in arms, does what he can to raise a family, but his wife cannot rest easy either, not while another woman's child lives in her home, fathered on some stranger by her lord husband.
Last time "Happily ever after" happened, it fell apart. Because in reality, there is no end of the story. There's just a point where the author stops writing. And if he writes long enough, everyone ends up dead. Happily ever after is something that has never happened in real life. This isn't a story, it's a snapshot. There were things that happened in this world before GRRM put pen to paper in book one, and things will continue to happen after he puts his closes the book forever. We just won't get to see them.
I think the epilogue for the entire series is going to be a tavern somewhere, 300 or so years in the future after the current events are done. There will be a bard singing by the fire, and he will sing of The Song of Ice and Fire. He will sing of all the current characters in their idealized form, i.e. how Ser Jaime had a golden hand, or about Lady Brienne the Beauty, how she was the most beautiful warrior maiden in the land.
The song will not mention all of the horrible, terrible things the characters have done to each other. It will only remember their idealized versions, just how the current characters remember the legends of old as heroes of their age, and not real people.“
