Why is it Ice and Fire?

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Why is it Ice and Fire?

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Specifically, why Ice before Fire? That's not how you normally say that. It's easy to answer once and let it go. It gets messy, and interesting, if you start adding on more answers.
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Khaliban,
Specifically, why Ice before Fire? That's not how you normally say that.
Not sure what you mean here. :?

Do you think that there is significance in the title of the series?
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Others vs Dragons? :? (Winter is coming, afterall...)
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To me, "A Song of Ice and Fire" sounds better than "A Song of Fire and Ice".
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Post by Lord Mhoram »

danlo,

I agree. It's probably something like that.

Murrin,

Yes, but part of that might be because we are so used to hearing it "A Song of Ice and Fire."
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IMO, I think it's more to do with having "of F-" (breaks the flow by the tiniest amount) and ending on a "-ce" sound.
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Yeah. Sounds better. 'Nuff said.
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Lord Mhoram wrote:Khaliban,
Specifically, why Ice before Fire? That's not how you normally say that.
Not sure what you mean here. :?

Do you think that there is significance in the title of the series?
There might be. GRRM doesn't do a lot of things randomly. I tend to doubt the name of the series was chosen haphazardly.
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Zahir wrote:Yeah. Sounds better. 'Nuff said.
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Re: Why is it Ice and Fire?

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Khaliban wrote:Specifically, why Ice before Fire? That's not how you normally say that. It's easy to answer once and let it go. It gets messy, and interesting, if you start adding on more answers.
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Post by OsRavan »

theres a number of theories and it can certainyl refer to many things. imo most likely it is cause the two main themes of the series focus on ice (others) and fire (dany, dragons, and who rules westeros)
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well, there WAS a movie called Fire and Ice in the mid 80s...maybe it the order was changed so as to not confuse people or to infringe on the title...
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