https://winteriscoming.net/2017/08/24/george-r-r-martin-was-initially-against-including-dragons-in-his-novels/;
http://wikiofthrones.com/12003/george-r-r-martin-says-he-almost-didnt-include-dragons-in-a-song-of-ice-and-fire/;
https://www.reddit.eom/r/asoiaf/comments/6u374b/spoilers_extended_grrm_interview_in_russia_talks/?st=je8trr39&sh=7ad2ee52
https: / / www. mirf. ru/book/george-martin-contact-2 017
https://7kingdoms.ru/2017/mf-grrm-writing-and-mentor/
https://www.kinopoisk.ru/interview/3024260/ (Любопытно, что «7 королевств» отредактировали цитату, выпустив вопрос про «машину убийств», получилось, что речь идет о драконе из фильма «Сердце дракона»).
https://esquire.ru/hero/28172-george-martin/
https: / /www. mirf. г u/book/george-martin-contact- 2017
http://entertainment.time.com/2011/04/18/grrm-interview-part-2-fantasy-and-history/. «One mistake I see over time in bad fantasy is they go for the high magic world. They have really powerful wizards and witches and warlocks who can destroy entire armies-and they still have entire armies! No, you got that A equals В here. If you’ve got one guy who can go, booga-booga, and your 10,000 men army is all dead, you’re not going to get together 10,000 men! But people don’t think through the consequences. They have these very powerful wizards but yet they still have kings and lords who are… why wouldn’t the wizards rule the world? I mean, power gravitates to it, you know».
Lackey М. By the Sword, DAW books Inc, 1991. P. 423.
Lackey M. Magic’s Price. Penguin Books Ltd, 1990. P. 170. В России все было просто и неказисто: колдуну со всей силы били кулаком в нос. Если из носа шла кровь, совершать магические действия он уже не мог.
Можно целый список авторов фэнтези привести, и, практически, у всех маг лимитирован в том, что он может сделать.
https://7kingdoms.ru/2011/martin-on-class-stmctures-importance/
http://entertainment.time.com/2011/04/18/grrm-interview-part-2-fantasy-and-history/
http://www.maximumfun.org/sound-young-america/george-r-r-martin-author-song-ice-and-fire-series-interview-sound-young-america
Ленин В. И. Великий почин // В. И. Ленин Полное собрание сочинений. Т. 29. М., 1950. С. 388
Если, конечно, исключить чванство и произвол.
http://www.maximumfun.org/sound-young-america/george-r-r-martin-author-song-ice-and-fire-series-interview-sound-young-america «That’s the general process for doing fantasy, is you have to root it in reality. Then you play with it a little; then you add the imaginative element, then you make it largely bigger».
Ibid. «So I made the Wall considerably bigger and made it of ice, that’s the process of fantasizing».
Ibid: «One thing in the book, which I presume is made out of whole cloth of imagination, is the religions of this world. These are not religions of the primary world that we live in, the world of your novels has several major religions, some minor sects, the continent in which most of the characters spend most of their time have two well developed religious philosophies with a new sect that’s coming to the continent and gaining inroads. I was curious as to – how does one sit down and create a religion?».
Ibid: «I based them on real world religions just tweaking it or expanding it a little. The faith of the Seven is of course based on medieval Catholic Church and their central doctrine that there is one god who has seven aspects is partly based on the Catholic belief that there is one God but he has three aspects: Father, Son, Holy Ghost. With the Seven, instead, you have The Father, The Mother, The Maiden, The Crone, The Smith, The Warrior, and a Strangers, who’s the death figure».