The friendship of Robert Jordan and George R.R. Martin
Robert Jordan (James Oliver Rigney, Jr.) was the author of The Wheel of Time, which was published by Tor Books. In March 1997, he wrote a letter to GRRMās editor, requesting a signed copy ofĀ A Game of Thrones:
I see in āLocusā that George says he thinks he can no longer finish the story in a trilogy. Good. Not that his story will be longer, but that he isnāt going to try shoe-horning his story into the form everybody seems to say such stories must follow. Writing what you want to write, in the way you want to write it, isnāt easy when lots of people are telling you that you canāt do it that way because it isnāt done that way.Ā
In the 1990s and early 2000s, āRobert Jordan was a significantly bigger name in the fantasy genre than Martin, so his endorsement carried a lot of weight.ā [x]
The inscription in the signed copy that Robert Jordan received from GRRM:
May your winters all be short, and your summers bountiful
A Storm of Swords (published Aug 2000), Tyrion V:
Bronn scanned the ranks of the approaching Dornishmen. āThe lastās a golden feather on greenĀ checks.ā
āA golden quill, ser. Jordayne of the Tor.ā
Tyrion laughed. āNine, and well done.ā
Robert Jordanās ninth book,Ā Winterās Heart, was to be published in November 2000. Upon its release, it immediately rose to the #1 position on the New York Times hardcover fiction bestseller list, making it the second Wheel of Time book to reach the #1 position on that list. It remained on the list for the next two months. [x]
The name of the current lord of the Tor is Trebor, which is āRobertā spelled backwards. [x]
Myria Jordayne, heir to the Tor.
Harriet McDougal Rigney, Robert Jordanās wife and editor:
No, I donāt correct inconsistencies. Robert has a wonderful assistant, Maria Simons, who helps enormously in this regard, together with her sidekick Alan Romanczuk. Robert writes long lists of questions for them, and they come up with the answers in time, so that inconsistencies mostly just donāt happen. Maria also checks all proper nouns in the manuscript against our own super-glossary, and picks up the occasional glitch that way.
A Feast for Crows (published Nov 2005), The Krakenās Daughter:
āArchmaester Rigney once wrote that history is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again, he said.ā
InĀ The Sworn Sword, part ofĀ The Tales of Dunk and Egg,Ā LadyĀ Rohanne WebberĀ ofĀ ColdmoatĀ has her hair tied in a long braid and tugs on it in moments of high stress, similar to the character of Nynaeve alāMeara in JordanāsĀ Wheel of TimeĀ novels. [x]
