Martin spoke to TIME, in an rare and wide-ranging interview, in March for our cover story on Game of Thrones, whose seventh season premieres July 16. Here’s an edited transcript of that The last update we got from Martin was: "I’ve been so slow with these books," Martin told Rolling Stone. "The major points of the ending will be things I told [Benioff and Weiss] five or six years ago. But there may also be changes, and there’ll be a lot added." - mentalfloss. Also, form notablog (official communication from George R.R. Martin) Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin has criticised J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings due several questions he has about events after the War of the Ring. Martin, who has created A Song of Ice and Fire, has previously been on the record saying how fond of The Lord of the Rings he is, but also questioning Aragorn’s tax policies. The Saturday Interview George RR Martin: ‘I don’t understand how people can come to hate so much something that they once loved’ The ‘Game of Thrones’ creator sits down with Kevin E G Perry at .

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