Comparisons between Game Of Thrones and Tolkien's Middle Earth

Hi everybody!
This is my second notebook entry and to be honest I don't had didn't have any idea of what topic to  present to you until I remembered a discussion about George R.R Martin's Game Of Thrones and Tolkien's Middle Earth which I had with my sister a couple weeks ago, so I hope you enjoy some of our points of view and of course, if you want to open this topic to a public discussion only just let me know and we can discuss some of this these ideas in a deeper way.

To begin with let me make clear that both GoT and M-E, as you may know, are representations of real historic events but with a fantasy prespective perspective and in some cases elements of mythology and epic tales of from many ancient civilizations. The next comparisons so therefore, are related with by some similarities about between names, characters and events.

Game Of Thrones Middle Earth
Tyrion Lannister Tirion, the first city built by elves
Valar Morghulis The word "Valar" which makes reference to a certain spiritual entities of great power.
Sam and Pypar (Night's watch) Sam and Pippin (Two Hobbits friends of Frodo Baggins)
Drogo (Khal) According with to TLOTR Drogo is the name of Frodo's Father
Dothraki race (lords of the horses) Rohirrim meaning (The Horse-Lords).

So, as you can see, these are only a few examples of coincidence the similarities between both stories, and like I said these are only a my personal points of view and of course both of them are extraordinary examples of creativity and talent.

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