/lit/ - Literature

>>18720171
GRRM did draw the map of Westeros, or at least he claims that he did. There is at least one interview where he explains that he knew ASOIAF wouldn't merely be a novella but something more when he started to draw the map. It's pretty funny, in that interview he emphasizes that "once you draw the map, you know that you're done for," and then he pauses, clearly expecting the audience to laugh at his witty remark, but they don't, so the pause turns into a moment of awkward silence.

Anyway, I guess it's possible GRRM handed over his rough sketch to an artist who refined the map for publishing. But I feel fairly certain that slapping together Britain and Ireland into a single landmass was 100% GRRM's very own brainchild. I'd like to think a professional artist wouldn't have done quite so blatant a hack job.