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‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Is a Refreshingly Novel Reminder of Why I Love Westeros

And how the ‘Game of Thrones’ world first pulled me in

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Ben Ulansey
Jan 29, 2026
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Peter Claffey riding his horse in ‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ / HBO
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It took years of relentless peer pressure before I surrendered to the cultural juggernaut that was Game of Thrones. My long held resistance owed almost entirely to the subject matter of the show. While I’d seen glimmers of greatness in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Tolkien’s world never enthralled me in the same way as so many of my friends and elde…

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