Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-26222852-20150319173634/@comment-26222852-20150720125655

Like both Melanie Laurent and Diane Kruger as Francesca... Really enjoyed Diane's performance in Troy movie as Helen of Troy, an ulitmate beauty, and could picture her with pointy ears and straight long hair...No models for the cast such as Bundchen, just actors, perhaps not as dolly beautiful, but the beauty in an artwork actually comes from their grimasses and acting abilities, in which I agree with Joohaan.

The Witcher in my opinion, even though I am a great fan of LOTR, is incomparable to this, but I see more similarities in The Witcher and GOT-both dark fantasy, both in middle ages, both with power struggles, and you should warm up to GOT literature, it's good, although many, icluding myself, find it too diabolic and nihilistic-the message Martin sends to the readers is a hopeless one...Still not bad to read, but with a critic attitude, as with everything.

He is a genius in name invention, not just for Ciri's and Calanthe's name, but Emhyr's too, emir/emhyr was a title the Turkish rulers had had before the coming of the Ottoman Turks, when the title officialy became a sultan...Other names have Celtic and Norse roots...Needless to say that the depiction of slavic customs are flawless...being a scholar or not, just fascinating. In fact, the only main character's name that actually has slavic roots is Cirilla (Cyril-a slavic apostle who made the Slavs literate, actually a Greek sent from Byzantine empire to literate them, and today many east slavic countries use the cyrilic alphabet-Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Serbia, Macedonia...still :) ). Also like his reformed Ancient Language, elven- Zirael...etc. (he made it into a mixture of Celtic, Gaelic and elven...). Genius... :)

I guessed Slovakia right because I am a sorceress and read your mind, your energy was actually too excessive for me to guess and I felt it through the screen. :P I was actually in ambivalence around Slovakia and Czech Republic, and tried with Slovakia for I enjoyed my stay there at Bratislava, cruising the Danube...

Anjelica Huston as Siegerdriffe, and Stuart Townsend as Eredin, and king Thranduill as Avallac'h, Gary Oldman as Bonhart, and maybe... Joseph Fieness as Stefan Skellen...Just missing Foltiyarna.