Andrés Garcia Posted July 14, 2013 Share Posted July 14, 2013 I don't like the Others portrayed in the tv show coz they look like dead, awful-looking, ice zombies. How could the Night's King fall in love or make love to such creature? GRRM said they are strange, beautiful, inhuman, elegant... not like this.A Bolton would still hit it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pod The Impaler Posted July 14, 2013 Share Posted July 14, 2013 I picture the one who seduced the Night King as being something like a more etherial and icy version of this:http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1370/1153086229_edba754f97_z.jpg("Lady Of The Haven" by Alan Craddock) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King of Winters Posted July 14, 2013 Author Share Posted July 14, 2013 Interesting.It's almost like a compromise between the show & the books.They look like something that's comes from the sea to me. But it looks good.i like this idea too but what transformed them in the first place ?I think it was probably them using Ice magic in the Lands of Always Winter, or further north at their time, and it slowly turned them into The Others so they could adapt to their cold environment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osric Posted July 14, 2013 Share Posted July 14, 2013 Well since the description of the Others in the prologue of aGoT says the Others look tall, gaunt and hard as old bones I actually picture them similar to those of the show I like this one thoughhttp://data.whicdn.c...owres_large.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoneborn80 Posted July 14, 2013 Share Posted July 14, 2013 i don't see them like some ice monsters like the show presented them (i really didn't like that)i see them as more of a mystique race, a fascinating enigma , a beautiful danger that could draw you in and then destroy your soulsomething like thishttp://www.gameofthr...hite-walker.jpghttp://fc04.devianta...ckz-d5a7c2x.jpghttp://data.whicdn.c...owres_large.jpgThe third, by far the scariest. :thumbsup:But I think there's another aspect to them that makes the even scarier: their stealth. I imagine them as the things that you see in the corner of your eye, until they are on you. An ice blue aspect just outside your range of vision until they want to make themselves noticed. Like a rippling of frostbite that becomes solid without intermediate. As clear as that thin sheet of glass on the surface of the water. Casting no shadow and transparent but for the distortion of the light that falls through them. Invisible in the dark but for the glow of their eyes, which is stronger as winter comes more powerful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florina Laufeyson Posted July 14, 2013 Share Posted July 14, 2013 http://data.whicdn.com/images/21840881/OTHERSlowres_large.jpgYeah thats kinda how i pictured them myself. Masamune's link was actually closest to my own image of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
he knows nothing Posted July 14, 2013 Share Posted July 14, 2013 You know pirates of the caribean 4? with the mermaids?I think they are like that, So much beauty you wanna do the same as the nights king :PDon't like those of the series though, they look scary, but completly lost the shining ( which I believed they had) and the beauty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Ravenstark Posted July 14, 2013 Share Posted July 14, 2013 I'm the one who didn't liked the TV others? It is just... hell, we are waiting so much to see more of them and the TV series' others are just people with some scars... nothing inhuman or elegant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Light a wight tonight Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 I'd thought that the current White Walkers could be Craster's sons, so I'm glad not to be alone on that. I guess it's the Great Other who does the transformation. The comments on the TV Others made me think they were Yeti. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twizz Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 I don't like the Others portrayed in the tv show coz they look like dead, awful-looking, ice zombies. How could the Night's King fall in love or make love to such creature? GRRM said they are strange, beautiful, inhuman, elegant... not like this.I could fall in love with a women like that. Just throw on some lipstick and good to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maidenpool? Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 I like to think of an Other like a shapeshifter, or a changeling, like that guy--You ever hear of that TV show Manimal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lehnaru Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 I visualize the Others as a tall and beautiful humanoid species that happens to live in a cold climate! The Night's King was certainly enchanted enough. I wouldn't object to... ah, cultural exchange, myself. Game of Thrones got their appearance all wrong, I think. I don't think they're necessarily offensively hostile, either. I think they're just defending their territory (north of the Wall) from unwelcome human incursions. As a collective, our species tends to ruin everything we touch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Great Walrus Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 I imagine them as having some type of Elvish quality to them, as in unnaturally beautiful and enchanting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommens Cat Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 Twenty foot tall, with ice beards and balls of iron. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Techelles Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 Dr. Pepper's avatar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I know I know Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 Interesting.It's almost like a compromise between the show & the books.I was about to say that I actually am a cautious fan of the shows interpretation. But the above artwork goes in a completely third direction, and after some thought, it has changed my own conception of them - I hope the show moves the next depictions in this direction, that is beautiful and interesting.We've only seen one Other at a time so far. They're beautiful in their own strange way, but they do not have anything I would describe as elegance. The above does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Queen Elsa Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 I picture the one who seduced the Night King as being something like a more etherial and icy version of this:http://farm2.staticf...dba754f97_z.jpg("Lady Of The Haven" by Alan Craddock)Now, that's the Queen Other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bad Hound! Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 I also think the Others can also be thought of as a force of nature, as someone said.But it doesn't mean they cannot be reasoned with.I liken it to the sea. The sea is an awesome force of nature. The sea also does not reason, does not have empathy, does not obey to the laws of mankind. You can't reason with the sea, you can't defy it, and yet you can come to some sort of arrangement. Think of the Dutch with their dykes and reclaimed land; think of the Pacific islander early navigators. They didn't tame the sea as such, but worked around it. Didn't get afraid to challenge the status quo and have a go, whilst maintained a healthy respect for what it is.Maybe humankind can also work out some sort of arrangement with the Others. No idea what form it would take, though.And WIAI, I also like this image http://data.whicdn.c...owres_large.jpg. I think many other images make them look taller than they are. I don't think they are a lot taller than Westeros humans, maybe taller than the average, 6' 3'' to 6' 5'', but not much more. Smaller than the Mountain - but much more beautiful, ephemeral, mysterious, otherworldly.. like GRRM said, sithe. I want to imagine them as a silent, glacial and menacing beauty, accompanied by some strange alien-sounding trance music: as you face them, you are transported to another world. Yes, I often dream that I am Ser Waymar Royce on his last ranging mission. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florina Laufeyson Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 Dr. Pepper's avatar.Hehe!!! Its funny because video game. I picture the Other mooks like that. Poor Puddles..Now, that's the Queen Other.Queen Other must be slammin'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
he knows nothing Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 I visualize the Others as a tall and beautiful humanoid species that happens to live in a cold climate! The Night's King was certainly enchanted enough. I wouldn't object to... ah, cultural exchange, myself. Game of Thrones got their appearance all wrong, I think. I don't think they're necessarily offensively hostile, either. I think they're just defending their territory (north of the Wall) from unwelcome human incursions. As a collective, our species tends to ruin everything we touch.read the books, you're like my avatar.The great other is the opposing god of R'heallor, and I think the others are his creation, see it as a battle between god and satan. You said the others should be humanoid, but they weren't, they were being described as beautifell creatures, but nothing human among them. That's where te show fails, but hey, it is not a important detail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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