A Blue Bear

You think back to even a single page or a conversation and someone has a theory as to how the whole future of Westeros hinges on it. It is exciting and yet makes you feel really stupid!!! I read a lot of fantasy but little has the depth, humanity and scope of this......clearly GRRM has rejected old fashioned heroes, villains, good and bad. One thing that came to me was that although he can do a great battle scene there does appear to be an anti-war thread though the books. War distorts, tears families apart, ends badly and solves little. Conversely some people come through changes for the better after the annihilation they've witnessed. I'll be getting lost in it again....still not discovered the whole site. The section on maps alone looks like hours of wasted time!!

Hi A newbie and probable lurker saying hello. My position is initially horrendously behind the times in that I discovered GRRM through HBO's GOT. Not at all hardcore! Then I started reading GOT in July and finished ADWD last week......couldn't put them down (or the Kindle to be precise). Now bereft as I consider the length of time I have to wait until it is resolved. Even my wife noticed I was a tad morose at the prospect of being without new product. I shall of course re-read them all in 2012 to fill the void. I came to the site last week and I'm blown away by some of the insights.....awesome stuff. I have had to re-think lots of what I had thought I'd taken from the books already. Keep up the good work folks....it is appreciated by those who might be less sure of their own theories! Cheers A Blue Bear