He wanted to publish the stories, the Silmarillion saga, along with the books we all know today, but publishers kept turning him down. Some of Tolkien’s mythological material became The Lord of the Rings. He was interested in the great stories, the great sagas, the stories that weren’t written as modern novels but as texts that could have jumped right out of the world he was creating. He mostly thought it couldn’t be published. Tolkien worked on his mythology for most of his adult life, from the trenches of World War I to his death. , and always fascinating history of Westeros. With all the scope and grandeur of Gibbon’s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Fire And Blood is the first volume in the definitive two-part history of the Targaryens, and instills in readers a new appreciation for the dynamic, often gory. Readers have glimpsed glimpses of this narrative in books such as The World of Ice And Fire, but now, for the first time, the full history of Targaryen is revealed. These are just some of the questions answered in this important chronicle, narrated by a learned citadel maester and illustrated with over eighty black and white illustrations by artist Doug Wheatley. What happened during the Dance of the Dragons? Why was visiting Valyria so deadly after Doom? What were Maegor the Cruel’s worst crimes? What was it like when dragons ruled the Westeros skies?

Fire & Blood begins its story with the legendary Aegon the Conqueror, creator of the Iron Throne, and continues to tell the generations of Targaryens who fought for this iconic seat, culminating in the civil war that almost tore their dynasty apart. Centuries before the events of Game of Thrones, House Targaryens, the only Dragonlord family to survive the Curse of Valyria, settled on Dragonstone.

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