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		<title>Last Supper: The Real-Life Massacre That Inspired the Game of Thrones Red Wedding</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 15:24:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ishaan Tharoor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The penultimate episode of Game of Thrones’ third season ended in a brutal scene of bloodletting that shocked countless unsuspecting viewers. In what’s dubbed the Red Wedding, both Robb Stark and his mother Catelyn, two leading protagonists from a noble house already wrecked by tragedy, are viciously murdered along with their entourage while feasting in the hall of Westerosi power broker Walder Frey. The betrayal, as Jim Poniewozik wrote, is “heartbreaking” and “horrifying.” It signals the end of the Stark war effort and, with the suddenness of its execution, leaves an emotional desolation at the heart of the Game of Thrones narrative. It’s easy to understand the anger of so many viewers, some of whom who took to Twitter to rail against the TV show, HBO and George R.R. Martin for killing their favorite characters. The massacre of the Starks is not only a surprise, but also an outrage. As Martin emphasizes in his book, the Starks were guests in the Frey home — upon arrival, they ceremonially ate the Freys’ bread and salt, long considered a guarantee of protection from the host. The treachery violates ancient customs in Martin’s fictive universe that we keenly, intuitively understand. Laws of hospitality are deeply embedded in all human societies. In the Iliad, the primordial war epic of the West, the Greeks lay siege to Troy after the Trojan prince Paris betrays the welcome extended to him at the court of the King of Sparta by slipping away with the King’s beautiful wife Helen. The rights of guests feature prominently in ancient Biblical scriptures, as well as in the Arthashastra, an ancient Indian treatise from roughly 250 B.C. intended as a proto-Machiavellian handbook for South Asian monarchs. Martin himself claims to have drawn inspiration for the Red Wedding from an infamous episode in medieval Scotland. In November 1440, the principal men of the Black Douglas clan went to dine with the young King of Scotland at the Great Hall of Edinburgh Castle. They had guarantees of safe passage. Not unlike the realms of Westeros,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=entertainment.time.com&#038;blog=24659518&#038;post=3542462&#038;subd=timeentertainment&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tongues of Ice and Fire: Creating the Languages in Game of Thrones</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 09:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ishaan Tharoor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fans of Game of Thrones now know the character of Daenerys Targaryen (played by Emilia Clarke) has truly arrived. Sure, the erstwhile heir to the Iron Throne has already eaten a horse’s heart raw, wandered barren wastelands and escaped a gaggle of amphibian-faced warlocks. But at the end of the fourth episode of season three, Daenerys utters words for the first time in her mother tongue of High Valyrian — and, in so doing, takes command of an army, orders a shock-and-awe dragon strike and emerges the Stormborn Queen she was meant to be. Never, as my TV-critic colleague Jim Poniewozik wrote, has she “been more compellingly terrifying.” A big reason for that (at least, judging from fan reactions on Twitter) is the awesome authority this language seems to give her. It’s new, of course, to viewers, but not in the universe of Game of Thrones: in the books of George R.R. Martin, High Valyrian was the language of an all-conquering empire that fell into cataclysmic ruin; the Targaryens carry its legacy. But unlike J.R.R. Tolkien — The Lord of the Rings author was also an Oxford philologist — Martin never devised actual languages for his fantasy world. For HBO’s show, the task fell to David Peterson, a California-based linguistics scholar and president of the Language Creation Society, a group of linguists who invent languages as a hobby and sometimes discuss them on a podcast; some fellow &#8220;conlangers,&#8221; as they are known, have also crafted languages for other sci-fi films and TV shows. In a phone interview with TIME last week, Peterson said he was given a largely free hand in constructing High Valyrian and Dothraki, the tongue of the book’s fearsome horse-riding nomads heard earlier in the series.“[Martin] is delighted by the fact they’re there,” says Peterson. “But he’s not really super interested in the languages in and of themselves.” Peterson, it turns out, got the job through a form of linguistic trial by combat — an exhaustive competition, held by the show producers prior to production, that pitted him against rival language creators. He<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=entertainment.time.com&#038;blog=24659518&#038;post=3538928&#038;subd=timeentertainment&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>5 Ways HBO&#8217;s Game of Thrones Exhibit Disappoints Us</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 09:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ishaan Tharoor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We caught the HBO-sponsored  &#8216;Game of Thrones&#8217; exhibit before it shut up shop in New York&#8216;s midtown on April 3. Its next stop—on a global tour that began last month in Toronto—is the Brazilian megapolis of Sao Paolo. There, it shall continue its mission of transporting &#8220;viewers into the breathtaking and enchanted world of Westeros.&#8221; We have no problem admitting our devotion to the books of George R.R. Martin and gladly bend the knee to the hit HBO TV series as well. So we approached Westeros-on-57th Street with great excitement, even when stuck in a vast line of fans that stretched a whole avenue block. &#8220;I can&#8217;t wait to see the Mother of Dragons,&#8221; said one gum-chewing prepubescent who probably should have been at school. But he was to be disappointed—Emilia Clarke was nowhere in sight (nor were any of the show&#8217;s other actors). We, too, were underwhelmed. Here&#8217;s why. 1. The Iron Throne. The line to sit upon this exact replica of the Iron Throne was too long, so we were unable to take our rightful seat and perhaps, as a result, are a bit bitter. But herein lies a problem: It&#8217;s the Iron Throne! It was forged with dragon-fire by Aegon the Conqueror! It was made out of a thousand swords of the Targaryens&#8216; subjugated foes! Unworthy kings feel the constant cut of its blades on their posterior! Yet, we watched, bemused, as all the cheery small-folk of the tri-state area ascended the dais and took their perch, grinning stupidly for pictures. We asked one of these grinners how he coped: &#8220;Dude, I think I sat on plastic,&#8221; he said. (MORE: Game of Thrones : A Graphic Refresher) 2. Blackwater Bay. We were rather excited to reenact the defense of King&#8217;s Landing through a video-game simulator where you shoot flaming arrows at pools of glowing-green wildfire in Blackwater Bay. You do this by pulling taut an actual bowstring and letting fly at Stannis Baratheon&#8217;s ships below. But one of the other visitors shoved past us rudely, sending our first arrow<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=entertainment.time.com&#038;blog=24659518&#038;post=3535931&#038;subd=timeentertainment&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TIME&#8217;s Guide to The Hobbit&#8216;s 13 Dwarves</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2012 13:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>TIME Plays the Game of Thrones, and Lives to Tell the Tale</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:16:49 +0000</pubDate>
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