I read the book Dune many many years ago back in college and although it always stood out in my mind as a phenomenal book, the details got fuzzy over time.
Watching the new movie last week suddenly made me realize how much Frank Herbert's work influenced GRRM.
The Houses of Atreides and Stark are incredibly similar in philosophy and Leto and Ned are almost interchangeable in how honorable, inspiring, courageous etc they are.
The fates of Paul and Daenerys also overlap a lot - both barely escape while their House is shattered and find themselves in a new environment where a society that is structured around power and survival with fierce warriors adopts and supports them and both find their way back to vengeance by gaining special powers.
I haven't delved into further details about parallels but GoT being much fresher in my mind I suddenly found similarities very obvious.
Submitted October 27, 2021 at 03:30PM by Vigolo216 https://ift.tt/3bhfydP
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