Game of Thrones – Dawn Over the Barrows of the First Men
Have I mentioned that my biggest problem with A Song of Ice and Fire is there are too many horses? It’s getting to the point where if someone’s outside there’s a fifty percent chance they are riding a $%&# horse! This scene is so much nicer in the show where Robert and Ned are just having a nice little picnic! Admittedly they drop the bit about the barrows completely but that is not the point.
On a side note, sunrises are wasted in pen and ink. I almost want to do this over again, in color just to show how awesome this should look. Also, I’m going to do it as a vertical composition so you can appreciate the sheer majesty of the plain.
Robert frowned. “Have we ridden onto a graveyard?”
“There are barrows everywhere in the north, Your Grace,” Ned told him. “This land is old.”
Game of Thrones – Chapter 12