1. George R. R. Martin was given a few matchups between Lord of the Rings characters and A Song of Ice and Fire characters and asked who would win in a fight. He answered them all and laughed a lot.

    There is kind of a spoiler for the third book/a scene that is probably going to happen in the first episode of this next season, so don’t watch this if you don’t want to hear that.

     
  2. Ned Stark explaining his son’s condition to well-meaning friends.

    Ned Stark explaining his son’s condition to well-meaning friends.

     
  3. Part of me wishes that Stanley Kubrick and the Beatles had made that Lord of the Rings adaptation together.