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Yes, nothing is fool proof. I also try to stay away from long grass. Agree.

Long trousers are not complete protection, even if tucked into socks or gaiters. Ticks will climb up clothing and try to find a way under it. They often attach themselves around people's waists. A manual or visual check of your whole lower body once you are home is safest.

I wasn't even talking about Ukraine. It was you who pulled it out of your hat. I started off tangentially from Gaza and now-

Not when it's people or items of cultural significance. The burning of the Seven was not presented as a good thing at all. It's iconoclasm and that quickly gets out of control.

LOL, okay, but people in Westeros are needing fire and warmth in winter, so priests burning things (to get them warm) should be exactly their thing, especially in the Riverlands where the converts are spreading. These people won't have any issue with whatever followers of R'hllor Dany may or may not bring.

The US has “butted in” many times all over the world. This is not news. I’m asking specifically about Ukraine. Or… is Ukraine the exception to the rule you are stating?

Firstly, I never said just people, I said 'things', I am talking about property as well, of which burning things very much appears the dominant position. Besides all the things that Melisandre is up to, there is more. Per Salladhor Saan: And they're burning things in Qohor too: Melisandre is not some outlier when it comes to burning things. Thoros/Beric are more likely to be an outlier.

That is not the point. The point is that this whole issue is one of many where Tolkien failed to properly rework his pagan gods into proper angelic beings - which is only but one of many examples of him failing to properly rewrite his mythology which is, as originally conceived, decidedly more pagan than Christian. You can just take the core plot of Beren and Lúthien which is basically a new take on Orpheus and Eurydike. The crucial piece at the end is a loving partner breaking through the barriers of the allegedly heartless god of the underworld. But if Mandos is merely some little angelic pawn of Eru's with little to no actual power/authority in the matter at hand (which is huge since it involves an actual resurrection) then the entire plot is undercut. Why does Lúthien have to sing in front of Mandos if Eru is making the decision? Or Mandos already knows that this is the plan? This people merely act out a pre-conceived cosmic narrative, especially where the most important events are concerned. We have good reason to believe that any place the Valar were living would have had similar qualities as the Blessed Realm. The island of Almaren at the center of Middle-earth was similarly created, for instance. Yes, but an original unseen 'Fall of Man' story took place in the east. That is a crucial part of the mythology. We know that the Music was not supposed to include Melkor's nonsense, and while some things bettered the final design, there is a lot of garbage left which is why it is Arda Marred. The Silmarillion as such not so much. Tolkien almost completed the LT and a pre-LotR Silmarillion version ... but afterwards there are mostly fragments. He made attempts to write out new versions of the longer tales and he made Annals and such which kind of turned into other Silmarillion-like summaries of crucial events ... but the Silmarillion as such was not really something he worked much on after the LotR was finished. Point is that even such a narrative doesn't show up in the Akallabêth texts. Such ideas are trying to make sense of a not very well conceived Atlantis story. It doesn't help explain why the hell the Númenóreans would even believe that the Blessed Realm is the land of immortality. They never were there, and they certainly didn't read MT texts about zombification there. They know they are fundamentally different from lesser men regarding abilities, long life, and free death, and they have no reason to believe that those qualities came with the land they live in ... so why the hell would they ever believe the lands the Valar life made them immortal? There are Elves living in Middle-earth who are similarly immortal as the Elves from Tol Eressea who visit with Númenor. That the taboo not to go there vexed them is clear and one can understand that ... but the idea that they would become immortal if they went there comes pretty much from nowhere. Just as literal devil worship is kind of silly there. Pharazôn got somewhat senile in the end, it seems, but he and all his followers knew that they had put down that Melkor fellow back in the day. His own ancestor Eärendil living in the sky destroyed Thangorodrim. It is silly for a king who presumes to rule the entire world to worship a loser. This is the problem if you have incarnate gods and devils who can (and are) mastered or destroyed with brute physical force. Even if they are long-lived and have terrible eyes and fiery hands they are, ultimately, not all that different from other beings. Thus adding the ultimate theological sin of devil worship and blasphemy to Pharazôn's crimes doesn't fit well with the Silmarillion setting - which wasn't the core of the Atlantis story, either. During the writing process of TLR it became a sequel to the Silmarillion mythology, but that was not originally intended. Thû flying to Númenor as a great bird to seduce the people there works better, overall, as them falling prey to a Sauron they effectively beat into submission before. Being awed by a divine/supernatural sorcerer being you not (seemingly) defeated earlier works much better than the version we got in the end.

Doran is one of the most incompetent players in the books. He simple can't win. He should had entered the war during the time of the five kings, now is the time he should not be sitting on the table. He can lose everything and he has nothing to gain in this game.

That is not the case. R'hllor is a slave god in Volantis, which means the god of the lowest class who decidedly do not run things and do not burn people left and right. Melisandre is the exception from the rule, not the rule. The main line red priests are like Thoros, Benerro and Moqorro. And Moqorro, for instance, was not exactly the driving force behind Victarion's weirdo double sacrifice to the Drowned God/R'hllor. The obvious new zealots in charge in Westeros are the new High Septon and his fanatical minions. Who cares if gods actually exist? George himself said that Thoros is so successful in converting Riverlanders because the people there see him and his god work miracles. Things no other priest/god has done so far in Westeros. And that success should only grow as hunger and cold start to plague the Riverlands. Because the other Free Cities have a good military, too. But Volantis didn't lose other territories so much. It lost conquered territory in the wake of a war lasting for a hundred years which was ended by an internal revolution. There is a clear decadence in Volantis regarding the ruling class and the amount of slaves they have. But their slave military is very

Whoa… now there’s allowing for personal taste, and there’s whatever that statement is. For all of Sanderson’s mass production sins, he will never open a book “Somehow… Odium has returned…”

For the record, Return of the Jedi was the first Star Wars film I saw growing up. I was at the video store and 1993 me, thought Darth Vaders mask looked cool, and my mother or grandmother, just picked any of the 3 films, at random. When you're a child, that film is mind blowing, even if you have no idea what's going on, lol

Younger Leo as Joffrey Next: Ewan McGregor

That's all right then. I just don't want Wootton getting the wrong message.

No. I'll include this my Answer #11; it's not made of dragonglass.

Daenerys Targaryen: Dany isn’t going to reveal her identity to Khal Jhaqo as a surprise; obviously he will already know who she is. With Drogon at her side, I don’t think Dany is going to waste any time as a temporary Dothraki slave. Dany will get all the Dothraki to bow down to her, and she will be declared the “stallion who mounts the world”. Drogon will certainly be a reason for this declaration. Dany won’t set the khals on fire while remaining unburnt; that was a one-time thing and Dany isn’t fireproof. Dany and her united khalasar will return to Meereen, but I think the battle will already be over when she arrives. Dany and Tyrion will meet, and she'll reluctantly accept him as an unwanted but necessary advisor. Like in the show, I think Dany will leave Meereen relatively soon after she returns. She’s done with peace and she’s done with Meereen. If she stops anywhere in Essos on the way to Westeros, it will only be as a necessity for her journey to Westeros; she has no more investment in Essos. Rhaegal and Viserion won’t be well-behaved dragons eager for their mother’s return. At least one dragon will no longer be hers when she returns to Meereen. I don’t think Victarion will live to return to Westeros, but I think he will do something to stir up trouble with the dragons (I have no idea what). Like Asha/Theon in the show, Victarion’s fleet will be Dany’s ticket back home. Daario may or may not be killed before Dany arrives, but he won’t sadly accept Dany’s decision with a calm, gentle breakup. If Dany sets up a successor in Meereen, she won’t choose Daario. Obviously she will take the Dothraki to Westeros, but I don’t know if she will take the Unsullied and/or the sellsword companies. She purchased the Unsullied for her Westeros invasion, but if she cares about Meereen's survival (a big if), they are the ones she’ll leave behind to keep the peace. Regardless, I think Slaver’s Bay will be a smoldering ruin when Dany leaves, and it will be worse off than before her arrival. Dany’s story in Slaver’s Bay isn’t about her making the world a better place but embracing her family’s words of fire and blood. Dragonstone seems like a likely place for Dany to first land in Westeros, but there won’t be an empty fortress waiting for her peaceful arrival. But it will be no difficulty for her to take it, and it will be such a non-event that it will probably occur between chapters. I doubt Dany will have any allies waiting for her arrival in Westeros. The main point of the Dorne plot, I think, is how Dany loses her “easy allies” to Aegon… but Young Griff didn’t exist in the show so the showrunners transferred Aegon’s Dorne/Reach alliance to Dany. Season 7 was ludicrous filler making excuses for why Dany put off her invasion. Unless Dany is distracted by news of the Others immediately upon her arrival, she’s not going to postpone her invasion: she will go for Kings Landing right away. Drogon isn’t going to burn Kings Landing. Even if Dany wants him to (she won’t), he can’t. George Martin could have made the dragons grow up in five years, but he decided to make it take centuries for dragons to reach full size. So whatever George has in store for Drogon and the other dragons, it isn’t to become massive nukes to take out entire cities at once. That said, I think Kings Landing will be partially burnt down… by either Cersei or Jon Connington, and again that story was transferred to “Mad Queen Dany”. As negative as my predictions for Dany are, she will not become a genocidal maniac. I think Dany will claim the Iron Throne long before the last moments of the series. Her rivalry/jealousy with “Aegon Targaryen” will be with Young Griff, not Jon Snow. Melisandre will speak to Dany of vague comments about the “prince or princess that was promised”, but Dany will hear about Azor Ahai plenty of times before arriving in Westeros from other Red Priests. Dany will meet Jon, but since Jon won’t magically teleport across continents (prior to obtaining a dragon), Dany will meet Jon farther in the North. Under what circumstances I have no idea… but the fact that they eventually meet is the only way the show is predictive of the books. I don’t think there will be a romance between the two of them, but that might just be my bias that I really hope they don’t. Dany will fight the Others/wights with Drogon. Nothing about the Long Night on the show will happen in the books, and nothing that happens in the show is an indication of how effective the dragons will be in the battle. Timelines are altered, and I think Dany will have the Iron Throne before the threat of the Others is over. There might be a “scouring of the Shire” moment with Cersei/Euron briefly retaking the Iron Throne in her absence, but if so, it won’t be difficult for her to retake it. I think Dany’s worst actions in Westeros will be soon after arrival, not at the very end. Dany won’t “go mad”, and she won’t give any unhinged “first Kings Landing and then the world!” speeches. I expect her to become a tyrannical conqueror, but in the same vein as Aegon I (whom I also consider a villain) that people can at least plausibly defend… not the indefensible full-blown monster she became in the show. I think Dany will die one way or another. I think the way Dany became a mad tyrant in the show is so far off from what will happen in the books that there is no way to predict how she will be killed or who will do it, because all that depends on the events leading up to it. Drogon is not going to ambiguously fly Dany’s dead body across the Narrow Sea. The Dothraki aren’t going to decide: “Well, I guess we peacefully go back to Essos now that our goddess has been murdered.”

There were actually multiple reasons why George switched out the Wookies for the Ewoks -Chewie being a space smuggler implied that that his race couldn't be primitive (I don't really buy this explanation). -Wookie costumes were too complicated to produce en-masse and the production crew was worried that one of the actors or extras would end up getting shot by a hunter mistakening them for bigfoot during filming. -Toys and money

It’s funny how you guys accuse GL of milking the franchise when Disney has done far worse

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Tyrion Lannister: Obviously during Dany’s absence from Meereen, Tyrion isn’t going to be idling around teaching people how to drink and tell jokes. Nor will he be a hapless fool when the battle starts, waiting for Dany to return to save the day. I think Team Dany will win the Battle of Meereen without Dany, and Tyrion’s manipulations will be the turning point of the battle. It is likely that Tyrion will already be de-facto ruler of Meereen when Dany returns. Dany and Tyrion will make an alliance, but it won’t be friendly. I think they will reluctantly join forces because they need each other, but they will never trust each other, and Tyrion’s motive most certainly is not to help Dany to make the world a better place. Tyrion will not be the peace advocate on Dany’s council. He will be just the opposite. He also will remain clever rather than becoming an idiot. Repeat from earlier, Tyrion certainly won’t come up with the idea of “if we show Cersei a wight, she will call a truce!” Tyrion will have no calm and gentle negotiations with Cersei, and if he reunites with Jaime, it won’t be friendly. I don’t think Cersei will be anywhere near the Iron Throne when Tyrion returns to Westeros. It will be King Aegon and Queen Arianne he needs to deal with, and he already manipulated Aegon into not allying with Dany. I don’t see Tyrion traveling north to Winterfell. When Dany goes north, maybe she’ll leave him behind at Dragonstone or Kings Landing or wherever her southern base is. Tyrion will remain important in his own right for the rest of the story, rather than being downgraded as a declawed idiot standing pointlessly in Dany’s shadow. I think he will do all sorts of villainous things before the books’ end, so "Saint Tyrion" from the show has very little indication on what the real Tyrion is going to do. When/if Tyrion learns Jon’s identity, he won’t care. He wants Dany because she has dragons, not because she is the rightful Targaryen heir. Tyrion will betray Dany, but only because he was never truly loyal to her in the first place. I think the other 5 main POVs will go toward the dark side to varying degrees (except maybe Sansa), but most or all of them will pull back before the end. Tyrion won’t. I think he will end the story as a full-blown villain. I think Tyrion will end up ruling Casterly Rock as the villain who gets away with it. He won’t be King Bran’s Hand unless Bran is also a villain.

Arya Stark: Obviously Arya is going to fully reclaim her identity as Arya Stark, reclaim Needle, and abandon the Faceless Men. Will “the waif” be a homicidal maniac who begs to kill Arya but is killed by Arya instead? Not likely. Will “the kindly man” smile proudly as Arya breaks her alliance with their death cult? Even less likely. I think Arya will be at risk for the rest of her life for abandoning them. Arya will use her faceless man skills repeatedly rather than one time and forgetting, but she is not learning to be the greatest swordsperson in Westeros. Stealth assassins are not battle warriors. I think the Freys will meet their doom (but not full extinction), but not at Arya’s hand. Just like Frey pies were transferred from Manderly to Arya in the show, Frey annihilation was transferred from the Brotherhood to Arya. I do think that Arya will return to Westeros with revenge on her mind, and she will be distracted upon learning that her family is still alive and back at Winterfell. But she might not be distracted immediately. I think the Ghost of High Heart is legit, so I think she kill several more people on her list and maybe add some more before she gives up on revenge. Arya will reunite will Gendry, but not at Winterfell. She certainly won’t demand that he sleeps with her so she will “know what it’s like”. Her reunion with Sandor is less guaranteed. 50% chance that it happens, and not at Winterfell. I don’t think it is Sandor who will make Arya realize that she must give up on revenge, but seeing what revenge as done to Lady Stoneheart. (As a tangent for Sandor, I certainly hope that he and Gregor do not mutually murder each other. Sandor returned to vengeful violence in the very same episode that Jaime went back to Cersei, so it seems the theme of the show is that people are doomed to never redeem themselves. I don’t think that will be the book’s theme.) Arya won’t reunite with Nymeria just to immediately part ways and forget each other. Nymeria and her pack will be important, and that is obvious even without George Martin confirming it. As previously stated, the idiotic conflict with Sansa is not going to happen. All the Winterfell crap in Season 7 was just filler for a season that had no purpose whatsoever except to contrive a reason to give the Night King a dragon. Likewise, I don’t think Arya will kill Petyr. I don’t think she’ll ever see Petyr again. The showrunners said that Arya killing the Night King was their own idea. No one (no pun intended) is going to wipe out the entire race of Others and all their wights by stabbing just one extremely killable Master Other. And the catspaw dagger has no further relevance in the story. As previously stated, I think Arya will learn that revenge is not the answer, but not as a last moment epiphany after traveling all the way to Kings Landing and changing her mind just a few paces away from her final target. In fact, I don’t think Arya will ever return to Kings Landing at all. She certainly won’t be the primary POV of its destruction. Arya is not going to talk about the importance of family being together, and then immediately abandon her family to sail west of Westeros. If she survives the series (I don’t think the Faceless Men will simply forget about her abandonment), she won’t sail away. Also, she isn’t going to tell anyone “I don’t care about anybody who isn’t one of us.” Utter nonsense: Arya was always one of the most compassionate people toward people who weren’t like her.

Sansa Stark: Much of Sansa’s show storyline can’t possibly happen in the books because she is still in the Vale and never married Ramsay. No escape to Castle Black to reunite with Jon, etc. Therefore there is very little indication of Sansa's story from the show. Sansa might have authority to call on the Knights of the Vale to take the North but the timing won’t work, because I think Ramsay will be defeated long before she is revealed to the Vale as Sansa Stark. Petyr will obviously continue to try to manipulate Sansa. I hope that Petyr gets what is coming to him before Sansa leaves the Vale and that TWOW is Petyr’s final book. I think Sansa will likely reveal his misdeeds publicly… but not by first pretending to execute Arya in a mock trial. The Sansa/Arya nonsense is not going to happen. The showrunners love catfights and don’t seem to understand that young sisters bickering years earlier doesn’t mean they hate each other. Sansa and Arya will be thrilled to reunite, and no one cares about a letter that Cersei forced Sansa to write years earlier. If there is a Stark family conflict, it will be between Jon and Sansa over conflicting claims for the northern crown. But I think the Stark theme is about the lone wolf dying but the pack surviving, so I don’t think there will be any significant Stark feud. Sansa won’t become “the smartest person Arya ever met” by simply becoming less stupid than everyone else around her. Sansa will not be “grateful” for all the lessons the villains in her life have taught her. She won’t grow as a character by becoming nihilistic and cold, nor will she ever “admire” Cersei. While I think the book and show both intend for Sansa to be “the most improved character”, I don’t think the showrunners were the least bit aligned with George Martin in what “improvement” means. Petyr and the Lannisters are not Sansa's role models. I doubt that Dany and Sansa will have any significant interactions with each other. Sansa “being mean to Dany” certainly won’t be stated as a reason for Dany to “go mad”. I think it is quite likely that Sansa will end up as the ruler of the North, but as an independent kingdom? The North will only be an independent kingdom if it never reunites under the Iron Throne to begin with. Sansa is not going to ask for the North’s independence immediately after her brother is named the King of Westeros, because why would she?

I just saw this on Match of the Day. I mean, come on, you can’t rule out goals in Arsenal’s favour for obstructing the goalkeeper. It should be written into the rules at this stage that teams are allowed to do whatever they want to Raya.

Jon Snow: I am certain Jon is dead (I never knew some people thought he wasn’t until joining this forum), but he will return as a living breathing human. I think Melisandre will likely raise him from the dead, but not by giving him a magic haircut and sponge bath. Burning Shireen will be reserved for Stannis (another of George Martin’s three confirmed spoilers)… but Gilly’s son might be in danger, or possibly Ghost. Jon will be changed when he returns from the dead and his death/resurrection will have consequences. His death/return to life had no purpose whatsoever in the show. Jon won’t need to enact justice on his assassins, because Bowen Marsh and company will be taken care of minutes after Jon is murdered, and Jon’s resurrection will not be immediate. Davos will not randomly become Jon’s loyal advisor because of inexplicable reasons, but I think Melisandre will switch to become Jon’s biggest champion, perhaps even while Stannis is still alive. I don’t think Melisandre will ever become depressed and subdued but will be just as fanatical as ever. I don’t think Jon will banish Melisandre from his presence (that was because the actress was pregnant), but I don’t think Jon will warm up to Melisandre any more than he already has. Sansa replaced Jeyne Poole in Theon’s chapters, and Sansa replaced what will be Jeyne’s arrival at Castle Black too. Obviously Jon’s reunion with an unwilling Arya imposter will be far different from his show reunion with his actual sister. How Jon reacts to their reunion will be the first hint of Jon’s post-resurrection personality. Jon will not gather allies against Ramsay nor will the “Battle of the Bastards” ever happen, because Stannis will defeat Ramsay long before there is time for Jon to rise and journey south. I think there is a very good chance that Jon will be named King in the North, but from the resurfacing of Robb’s will… not from a “King in the North!” chant, Part 2. I think dying is a legitimate reason to free him of his Night’s Watch vows… but I don’t think Jon will completely forget about the Night’s Watch like he did in the show. Jon and Dany will meet, but whether as King in the North or Lord Commander, I don’t know. Regardless, he won’t travel south to meet her because he’s not going to gain the magic teleportation powers that the Season 7 characters had. Dany will fly north. I think and hope that Jon and Dany will never “fall in love”, for too many reasons to list. If he is named king and if he submits to Dany’s rule, it will be out of necessity for thinking she can help… not because “he’s in love”. The boneheaded mission north of the Wall won’t happen because there isn’t a single character in the books who is as stupid as everyone involved in that plan was in the show. Therefore, Jon won’t hand the non-existent Night King a dragon by being a show-off idiot. However the Others breach the wall, it won’t be from an “ice dragon”. I think it is extremely likely Jon will claim and ride a dragon. I don’t know how he will claim it, but not because he’s trying to impress his crush, and he will do something with his dragon other than going on cutesy snow rides with his aunt/girlfriend. What will Jon do when the Others breach the Wall? Something! Not pointlessly scream at an ice dragon. The showrunners said it was always meant to be Jon to kill the Night King but “that just didn’t seem right”. Did that come from George Martin? There is no Night King in the books and the Others won’t be fully destroyed in battle (especially not from killing a single Master Other), but I do think that the importance of Jon’s heritage is that he is “the prince that was promised”… whatever that will entail. Jon is the son of the Rhaegar and Lyanna, but the importance of that is prophecy… not being the rightful heir to the throne. Young Griff is the “rightful Targaryen heir” over either Dany or Jon. There will be no question of whether Jon “wants it” because I don’t think it will even be addressed. The whole drama of Dany wanting Jon to keep his parentage a secret will not happen. Will Jon kill Dany? That really depends on Dany’s story more than Jon’s, but if Dany becomes a vile maniac who murders a million people for no reason and threatens to murder millions more, Jon sure isn’t going to wiffle-waffle that “it was an impossible choice”, nor will he covertly kill Dany mid-kiss and then sob afterwards. Jon is not going to be banished to an organization that has no reason to exist if the Free Folk are allowed south, the Wall is partially collapsed, and the Others are extinct. That said, I don’t think the Others will go extinct. Jon may end up north of the Wall, but if so, that will be self-banishment as a sad and broken man. He won’t become the “King Beyond the Wall”, because the idea that Tormund re-migrated the entire Free Folk population north of the Wall because he is sad that the “big woman” doesn’t like him is idiotic to epic proportions.

Mate I owned ewok toys as a kid. I was definitely more interested in those than getting an emperor model. One of my most depressing memories as a child was getting the ‘old man Anakin’ figure. What was I meant to do with old geezer?