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Post by Some Pig No Doubt on Feb 27, 2016 19:43:29 GMT
One of the inspirations for the character of Jon Snow was... Jesus. I'm cereal. Unusual/mysterious conception and birth. After a period of deliberately being kept from the public eye, joins a brotherhood and rises to the top as a leader, then is betrayed and killed but rises from the dead, thereby proving who he is. Boom. Jesus. What? Get outta town. No similarities at all. I mean, what the hell are you thinking, man? Jesus! Jesus.
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Post by Weasel Pie on Feb 27, 2016 20:04:25 GMT
One of the inspirations for the character of Jon Snow was... Jesus. I'm cereal. Unusual/mysterious conception and birth. After a period of deliberately being kept from the public eye, joins a brotherhood and rises to the top as a leader, then is betrayed and killed but rises from the dead, thereby proving who he is. Boom. Jesus. What? Get outta town. No similarities at all. I mean, what the hell are you thinking, man? Jesus! Jesus. As a parochial school kid, George would have seen lots of imagery like that, fo sho. Another common image if you went to catholic school: (I'm sensing a new project)
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Post by Some Pig No Doubt on Feb 27, 2016 22:22:54 GMT
You know it...and every time I am confronted by that passage of "the slim sad-eyed girl in a white gown splattered with gore" with eyes weeping blood, I imagine a grade-school George down on his knees and bored as hell at Mass looking up at: Seriously, the imagery.
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Post by snowfyre on Feb 27, 2016 22:32:38 GMT
Barristan Selmy was ordered to lose that final tilt at the Harrenhal Touney.
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Post by jnr on Feb 27, 2016 23:43:15 GMT
Maester Aemon could correctly have answered some of the questions in the Small Questions thread.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2016 3:02:35 GMT
Jon was born due to a virgin birth.
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Post by Weasel Pie on Feb 28, 2016 16:32:11 GMT
Jon was born due to a virgin birth. this is awesome, I can be on board with this
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Post by snowfyre on Mar 2, 2016 0:29:33 GMT
Archmaester Walgrave... skinchanges ravens.
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Post by Maester Flagons on Mar 2, 2016 0:39:14 GMT
The kindly man has lived beyond the normal life span.
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Post by Weasel Pie on Mar 2, 2016 0:52:40 GMT
Maester Walys Flowers is very, very important to Lyanna's story
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Post by Melifeather on Mar 3, 2016 17:22:24 GMT
Queen Rhaella took Lyanna hostage in order to have a bargaining chip to treat with the northern alliance of Stark, Baratheon, and Arryn.
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Post by snowfyre on Mar 3, 2016 22:41:41 GMT
The remnants of the Kingswood Brotherhood reconvened at Lord Whent's Harrenhal tourney, and a young Tom o'Sevens met them there.
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Post by snowfyre on Mar 3, 2016 22:44:51 GMT
Symeon Star-Eyes was a knight... ...of the mind.
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Post by snowfyre on Mar 3, 2016 23:23:29 GMT
Each small theory here could become a thread. This does make a nice little incubator thread for potentially larger conversations.
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Post by freyfamilyreunion on Mar 8, 2016 23:06:49 GMT
I don't know if this qualifies as a small theory, but it doesn't really deserve its own thread, and I thought this the best place to present it. In my spare time (I have no life) I've been trying to look up the origin of the name of some of the Houses in Westeros. One in particular because it is also the name of one of the roads that lead into King's Landing, is Rosby. The only thing I could find for Rosby is as a variant of the surname, Roseby. But according to this article: www.surnamedb.com/Surname/RosebyRoseby derives from a medieval village of Roseberry which in turn was first recorded as Othensberg which in turn is a corruption of "Odin's burg" aka the fortress of Odin. You still with me? Now this is where it gets interesting (at least to me). If you look up Odin's castle or house, it is named Gladsheim, which means the "home of joy". books.google.com/books?id=CoYqAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA299&lpg=PA299&dq=Odin's+House&source=bl&ots=iFWo69VzhL&sig=VJ4uJmhD_vvvPehwubah9-awnCU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi96eeZmbLLAhWGtYMKHeJTCNE4ChDoAQgoMAI#v=onepage&q=Odin's%20House&f=false Basically, long story short, this is the circuitous route I took to find out that Odin's palace was named "the home of joy" which of course makes me think of "the tower of joy". Which in turn means the assumption made by many on the Westeros board that the tower of joy is a reference to Lancelot's Joyous Garde, may not be correct, instead it may be a reference to Odin's home Gladsheim.
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