Tue 6 May 2014 07.32 EDT. Fantasy author George RR Martin has said that omitting scenes of rape and sexual violence from the epic Game of Thrones series "would have been fundamentally false and ^{Tolkien would go on to inspire countless other fantasy writers, one of them being the man who is now regarded as “the American Tolkien”: George R.R. Martin. The author of the A Song of Ice and Fire (ASOIAF) series has always been candid about his admiration for Tolkien. Tolkien’s impact on Martin has remained prevalent throughout Martin} 3JWlBM.