Walda
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4 hours ago, kissdbyfire said:
Erhm... you quoted me but I didn't say that.
Really sorry, have given the correct attribution. Thanks for the heads up.
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re sweetsunray's posts: thanks anyway - I've read them, very quickly, and think she is totally on the money. When I get a chance, I'm going to look at more tourneys and tourney fields because there is clearly a lot going on on them and maybe, if we can crack the tourney of the Hand, we can crack the Great Tourney at Harrenhal.
Also,and I'm not exactly sure why my subconscious is bothering me with this detail, I'm thinking a winged helm could become a winged chalice if inverted...we've not heard much about House Hersy, which is the only current winged chalice. Of course, SweetRobin wants his eight guards to have winged helms like Artys Arryn (and would doubtless want them to slay the Griffin King on his order). But Renly has a rider with a winged helm, The Ironborn captain Bluetooth and King-beyond the Wall Mance Rayder both have raven-winged helms, the Mallisters of course, Bran is the winged wolf, Drogon the winged shadow, there are stories of heroic winged horses, legendary winged lions (Griffins) and probably less heroic but still mythic winged pigs (House Suggs?). Summer saw a winged snake belching fire at the fall of Winterfell, whatever that means, but there is something about wings and cups and the Eyrie and its ...maybe it is just that I'm still mulling over the silver goblet of the Widow of the waterfront while thinking of the tourney.
Anyway, Sunray's posts are a great read, thankyou for putting me onto them.
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Hi - Sorry I didn't see a notice about this message when it arrived in my inbox so I just stumbled across it.
I like a lot of sweetsunray's stuff, too. I'm glad if it feels right to you, too. I'm still amazed by the layers of hints GRRM has hidden for us in tourneys, wedding gifts, scenery, menus at feasts.
If I see any hints about a winged chalice, I will definitely let you know.
Come to think of it, Arya uses the Hound's helmet as a bucket or pail, I believe. I wonder whether we're supposed to compare that to Bran using his father's silver direwolf goblet at the harvest feast . . .
One thought often leads to another . . .
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Thanks for the link to Sansa and the Giants in the 'Is jousting skill related to marital prowess' thread. Very interesting. And the clues are all there.
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Greetings and felicitations.
Would you mind removing the @Ran from the material you quoted from my post in the "Does GRRM Read This?" thread?I'm sorry the way I put it at the bottom of my own (admittedly specious) argument, makes it look like I am quoting him, but actually, his words are the quote that follows, and the part you quoted is all my own thoughts, I'm only speculating on GRRM's possible motives, and have no idea what Ran thinks about it at all, so if you could just take his name out of the quote, and let me bear whatever opprobrium your well reasoned rebuttle earns, I'll change my post to make the attribution clearer.
(I did have a better argument - at the Edinburgh Book Festival in 2014, GRRM had said he stopped reading forums as soon as he discovered a couple of fans had worked out Jon Snow's parents, and that he wouldn't change the books on that basis anyway. He repeated his 'art is not a democracy' quote, but I can't remember the details clearly, and couldn't find a transcript of the interview, so I offered my own speculations on his possible motives instead.)
Dankie in advance,
Walda.
