I don’t usually do blog posts about production details in TV series that don’t air for another year. But most TV shows do not entail inventing an entire freaking language.
HBO’s dark fantasy saga Game of Thrones, on the other hand, does. Today the network announced that’s it’s going where James Cameron did with Na’vi, Star Trek did with Klingon and J.R.R. Tolkien did with Elvish and developing a full-fledged version of Dothraki, the language of the warlike nomadic horsemen who roam the plains of the Eastern continent, having taken in the heirs of a fallen royal house from the continent of Westeros and—OK, at what point in that sentence did you start silently making fun of me?
For those of you who find my interest in the invention of author George R. R. Martin nothing to laugh at, the network promises that its Dothraki language will boast “more than 1,800 words and [a] complex grammatical structure.”
Excerpts from the release after the jump. Stop laughing at me!
