Fool Stands On Giant’s Toe

19 minutes ago, sifth said:

green dress scene

I dislike it when it when dialogue speaks/explains to the audience. That aside moment felt disruptive. Then again it could be showing us Larry’s gossiping to spread discord. Maybe she was wearing another one of her mother’s dresses and the color was not the intent but the odor

Rheaya Royce. 

Was that Deamon? Looked more like a silent stranger. 
Bah! I never thought she could have been a cripple like Bran. What if she couldn’t move because she was unhorsed and not because of a broken back. 
“ I knew you couldn’t finish. Craven!” 
Finish a mercy killing? Finish what? And who or when did it start? ! I’ll have to watch, reread, and think it some.
 

I was hoping to see more screen time of the the Bronze Bitch.

Imagine expressing the emotion of that scene’s dialogue atop a horse. Not easy. Talented little firecracker.

On 9/18/2022 at 7:20 PM, Corvinus85 said:

But the elephant in the room is Rhaenyra's dress. So are we getting the whites vs the greens now, or is the show simply not going to utilize those monikers? Would a red dress not have worked?

When I saw the casting choice of Corlys Velayron I slapped myself a fool. I never considered  The Greens and The Blacks divide at the wedding as a family one. Maybe history has white washed it to be about dresses and not skin tone or blood lines. 
 

Im unaware of it being a Westerosi custom but the division described in the book at the wedding, one side Black and the other side Green, may be the brides family and grooms family. 
 

How can we get GRRM nominated as a Honorary Member of the Royal Society ?

I know they only allow entrance of the world’s greatest scientists but maybe as an honorary member he could be included?

Honorary Fellowship is intended for those who have given distinguished service to the cause of science, or who have brought great benefits to science, but who do not have the scientific achievements of the kind required of those who could be elected as Fellows or Foreign Members. Honorary Fellows include Bill Bryson and Melvyn Bragg.

Prior to 1996 there were no Honorary Fellows, but there was a way to be elected to the Fellowship under what were known as 'Statute 12 arrangements'.

Unfortunately literary works currently do not fit their requirements, but it should! There have been a few scientific studies of GRRMs work. One of which determined the maximum number of characters the human brain can manage and how different regions of the brain interact, relate, and store said information.
     ( If that’s the maximum one can read than that’s the maximum one should write. Proof of max effort from a writer. )

The society was founded as a fellowship of Natural Philosophy with the motto of “Nullius in verba” .

I say his work embodies that original spirit of the society as well  as being scientifically artistic and philosophical,…naturally.  
 

Lose the Ravens Call the Banners 

Can we do a petition? It would be an opportunity for publicity and funding for the Royal Society.

On 9/11/2022 at 7:30 PM, The Bard of Banefort said:

you fucked Daemon," the writing was a lot weaker this episode

Shame on you my good sir! To impugn a work blessed by the GRRM himself!
I know thee to have clever eyes for I have seen thy posts, but thy ears are found wanting  

You mock a fun deed

On 8/21/2022 at 7:21 PM, marsyao said:

Tell me how could the sea snake be a black man ? is house of Velaryon an ancient house of valyria ?

I love it.

I had not considered the possibility when reading certain lines in F&B.

Aemond’s remarks I think,

Look at you and look at us.
     Implying that his features are pure and his nephew’s  are impure bastards. When it could just be racist. 

Makes you think. A great threat from the north comes to end humanity. People up north are so white they’re red headed. Targaryen’s are the whitest. Looks like that prophecy has come and gone
 

“You only lost one eye, how could you be so blind?”

On 4/13/2022 at 5:13 AM, LynnS said:

I'm trying to remember why I said that.

I’ve had this silly idea of geometry word use, plumb, square and level, used for navigation or construction. The use of the word elbow was once used for a square. Coordinates maybe, reminds me of a classical phrase that’s bugged me to no end. “Thus leaning on my elbow…”. Most likely means below in GRRM world.

Corruption from below taking hold of his hand? 
His corrupted hand reaching below?

Ive been looking at the map and golden company landing, 90 angle? It’s a very weak and baseless thought of mine. 

A thought is a seed planted and GRRM has mastered the subtle planting into ones subconscious. Maybe I’m reading to much into it but your quote sparked something similar in me.

On 6/19/2021 at 7:30 AM, LynnS said:

I just wonder if the transformation will stop at the elbow

I’ve been wanting to look at all things elbow. Didn’t think of this

On 3/24/2022 at 12:11 PM, BlackLightning said:

I know GRRM really wanted a pre-gap interlude book with the Ironborn...

He did? That would be cool. I love nautical story stuff and mining/prospecting. Ten 10towers story would be exciting. Wind, salt air, plumbing depths and mining deep.  

On 3/24/2022 at 12:11 PM, BlackLightning said:

Would the new smallfolk POVs for that majority-Ironborn gap book?

Not sure of the question.

On 3/24/2022 at 12:11 PM, BlackLightning said:

People were already irritated at having new highborn characters in the mix, people dislike the travelogue and foodie passages, people were very bored by Brienne's story.

True. I loved the fourth book but I know I’m the exception. I must admit I did hunger for the usual POV

Dick Crabb gives the best tour’s of the seven 7Kingdom’s but the worst dining 

I love Dick Crabb, the Reader and Aeron. But not many are fans of WillIam and Dante.

Areo I need to revisit. Never thought oh his POV as common but more foreign. His axe as well. Had this silly 7 or x=10 idea. Kept going in circles tho.

Honestly 

If GRRM wrote a limerick on a shithouse wall it would be great and we’d all rush to read it. 

He has proven himself to be great.   I wish he did not feel the need at this point to be clever or appeasing. If he does at all. Any way he puts the story forth will be good. Gap or no gap. 

A thought is a seed planted. 

Some like to watch them grow and others just want the harvest.

Meh, mine rarely bare fruit. Whatever comes I’ll still be vexed.

Could GRRM still implement the 5 year gap? 
I’ve heard him lament the lack of perspective of the story from the bottom of society. A slow swap of viewpoint to, commoners, peasants, and small folk could bridge a new gap. We all know GRRM is a tricky cheater! He could deal from the bottom of the deck.

Just made myself think of a ship and “below deck”…bah! 
I have other books to read Martin! (Shake fist at sky.) Why you gotta have me keep coming back!

I never noticed the depth of how descriptive all the teeth are in the series. 

On 1/3/2022 at 11:19 AM, Corvo the Crow said:

becomes white after staying in the river for so long

Bah! You made question  if she always dyed her hair, and it came out in the wash, or a Who’s really under that cloak situation, or is death just bad for your hair? 
I’m hitting the easy button. Magic.

On 1/13/2022 at 3:04 PM, The Bard of Banefort said:

Where was Tyrion prior to AGOT? Did he live at court, or was he living at Casterly Rock? 

Tough question. Toilsome answer.

I remember looking for anything about how and where he spent his time. He left Casterly Rock for Cersei wedding. That timeline was muddling.

Could be.. 

"A voice from nowhere," Sandor said. He peered through his helm, looking this way and that. "Spirits of the air!" The prince laughed, as he always laughed when his bodyguard did this mummer's farce. Tyrion was used to it. "Down here." 

He never saw the wolf, where it was or how it came at him. One moment he was walking toward Snow and the next he was flat on his back on the hard rocky ground, the book spinning away from him as he fell, the breath going out of him at the sudden impact, his mouth full of dirt and blood and rotting leaves. As he tried to get up, his back spasmed painfully. He must have wrenched it in the fall. He ground his teeth in frustration, grabbed a root, and pulled himself back to a sitting position. "Help me," he said to the boy, reaching up a hand.

Only substitute I know of is the classic…

Eggs And Butter = Eggs and Bacon.
Never tried a substitute. Substitute in this case could be GRRM or Martin 

On 11/15/2021 at 6:36 AM, Seams said:

 

16 hours ago, Seams said:

rules might be - I suspect that identical letters can be repeated

Bah! Seeing it written out like this, makes me think of the old type face printers. Bacon’s cypher for surface use vv for w

I was just reading something a wile back
About the French guy, master in his citadel, he wrote Essay? 
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne. 

Probably another rabbit hole but I’m going down it.

• I could have sworn there was mention of Jaime having difficulty reading. His eyes? are Jumbled/mixed  

(HBO corrupting my memory)

I need Pylos’s help  

7 hours ago, EggBlue said:

did I misunderstand

Don't bother, sweetling, Tyrion thought, swirling the wine in the cup. He cares not a whit about carvings. The eyes he boasts of are his own. What he means is that he was watching, that he knew we were here the moment we passed through the gates.

Most chapters where people walk through a gate they watched as eyes are upon them.

Tongue is also defined as: to refer to plumage on a bird-jet of feathers sticking out.
 
Sandor Clegane stopped suddenly in the middle of a dark and empty field. She had no choice but to stop beside him. "Some septa trained you well. You're like one of those birds from the Summer Isles, aren't you? A pretty little talking bird, repeating all the pretty little words they taught you to recite."

Could be He wants to remove any distinguishing features on a bird to allow it to be mistaken as another type.  
A talking raven on Jeor shoulder? Sounds like a pirates parrot. 
Maybe flayed and replaced the birds skin? Ha! No idea. 

On 1/1/2022 at 11:12 AM, LynnS said:

Maddened by the smell of dragon

Ty. Did not know about frog

On 10/11/2021 at 3:18 PM, Hugorfonics said:

but one last flutist in the gallery was blowing a dirge.

Made me see something I’ve been looking for. Ty.

One flute will serve only to unstop your ears and dissolve the caul from off your eyes, so that you may hear and see the truths that will be laid before you."

The drums were pounding, pounding, pounding, and her head with them. Pipes wailed and flutes trilled from the musicians' gallery at the foot of the hall; fiddles screeched, horns blew, the skins skirled a lively tune, but the drumming drove them all.

skirling always makes me think of a banshee and the pass

15 hours ago, Corvo the Crow said:

the round tower

I Missed that

Anyone have a maker breaker board of Westeros? Not sure if it’s a thing 

How do I change my icon image for the little forum picture. Keeps saying to big. I can’t shrink it to 50

1 hour ago, Aejohn the Conqueroo said:

[PDF] Sandkings Book by George R.R. Martin (1981) Read Online or Free Downlaod (booksvooks.com)

I absolutely LOVE Sandkings.

Woot! Ty ty

Small question.

Did GRRM ever host a public access show? One about translations of the Bible and other ancient works?

Late at night I would occasionally come across this very interesting show. It was hosted by a man who looked like GRRM. I never new the name of the show and I can’t recall the mans name in question.

The reason I ask is because I just learned a few months ago GRRM wrote the outer limits episode Sandkings. Based off a novella he had written. I have yet to read it as the copy’s are expensive.

As a young 16 year old who loved the twilight zone and outer limits, I still remember fondly the 1am viewing of the Sandkings. That one episode had made a lasting impression on me. 

It got me thinking. The Outer limits and beauty and the beast television show, both worked on by GRRM. Watching B&B I would sit my 8 year old butt on my mom’s lap and fear/admire the beast! Envious of his cape and dwellings.

I have loved GRRM and his works before I ever knew his name. Is there anything else he has done or had a “hand”in that I’m unaware of?