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Ser Leftwich

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  1. Two words: pickled herring. They can't go bad, ship them everywhere to eat. Make millions.
  2. "It all goes back and back, Tyrion thought, to our mothers and fathers and theirs before them. We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance on in our steads." - ASoS Tyrion 10
  3. This is the best response to this OP. (Who promptly stopped responding at all after 1-2 reactions to the theory.) While one can theorize about why Lysa and Cat ended the way they did, that is about literary analysis of characters, not Tully 'genetics.' Compare it to the "Targs madness/greatness" that we have near endless information about the Targ family 'genetics' as well as several if not a dozen literary examples of the 'flip of the coin' idea expressed by characters. And remember, who is mad or great is often a label attached to a Targ after the fact. This specific theory is just nonsense "hate at XXXX characters" and is not based on the arc of the story. Click bait.
  4. Forgive me if my memory is off, but this was almost 10 years ago now, but I recall some of the genesis of this idea. As I was there, 10 long years ago at the advent of this!! (Queue ominous music.) The first question was "why was Lonmouth so notably mentioned in the story about the Tourney of Harrenhal, if not to come up later again in the story?" So, the second question was "what did Lonmouth do in the meantime?," and then third, "Has Lonmouth been in the books, if so, who might he have been?" Story elements elude to Lonmouth being friends with both Robert and Rhaegar, so it is reasonable to assume that he was torn about loyalty between them. Then, there is the loss of his wife and child, it reasonable to assume they were lost in the war. He has a clear dislike of the Lannisters. Once the Lannister get up to the old business of rapine and pillage, like sacking King's Landing, when he might have lost the wife/child, Lem/Lonmouth is pissed off and willing to oppose them again. Not necessarily a loyalty to Robert or Rhaegar, but a dislike of Lannisters. The idea was, "Since Lonmouth has been presented as likely to have vital information from the past, who might he show up as in the story?" It still seems simple and elegant as an idea, though, "what he has been doing for the last 15 years" is the biggest weakness in the theory. The story might give us more about Lonmouth or Lem that might make this nonsense, but it is still better than 90% of the garbage theories that people come up with on here.
  5. There is no reason to believe that such an alliance even existed.
  6. 1) If you count Dragonstone and Summerhall, the Red Keep is not really a single/permanent home. 2) Given the overly martial nature of Westeros, it kind of makes sense, to simplify the story.
  7. The same way it happened in The Mystery Knight, someone influenced/bribed the person choosing the match ups.
  8. It was not the kind of lists/bracket system we have seen elsewhere. The tourney was a 'champions tourney.' At the beginning there were five knights, the champions (5 Whents). Knights could challenge one of the 5 and then take their spot. Then at some point it was either halted and each of the 5 left had to challenge each other to determine the final champ... or there were fewer than 5 champions (because of the Knight of the Laughing Tree ousting a few of them then leaving).
  9. Are there any theories about the metaphor of the Crakehall's (boars) being related to the eventual fall of Tommen? (Boar killing Robert, Crakehall killing Tommen?)
  10. GRRM would have used almost all the same words, just arranged in a different order.
  11. This is in no way a small question. We don't know what happened, so pre-judging the situation is both oversimplifying and assuming too much.
  12. GRRM does leave loose ends all the time. The nature of the POV style of the books means there are loose ends everywhere. Chekov's gun is thrown around here too liberally. Chekov mostly wrote plays and short stories (and only one novel), when economy of words and details is absolutely necessary. GRRM tells us more about the foods at a feast than he does about some characters. It is not reasonable to apply Chekov's Gun to every single item and character that appears on the page. Almost the complete opposite would happen in a large epic with limited POVs, because different people inevitably notice different things. If/when it comes up with lots of people, maybe. Once, off-hand, meh. As soon as Tom mentions he had a bastard or two in the Westerlands from 12-14 years ago, we have something. Not every minor detail connects to something. It can't. Other wise the books would be finished....
  13. 1) There is so little to go on: alive, female, has to be old enough. It is not worth the effort since it cannot be figured out. 2) This is a non-starter, since there is nothing in the books that would lead us to this idea. So little to go on, it is just making sh*t up. There is no reason to believe this premise in the first place, so why bother? (How do we know Pod isn't one of Robert's Bastards? He must be because: reasons.)
  14. This should be in the pinned R+L=J topic.
  15. @TheLastWolf We don't know. (That is the answer to all three of your questions.) 'What ifs' are mostly pointless, because they are unanswerable, so "maybe, but the text does not go that way."
  16. @rotting sea cow @kissdbyfire @Bael's Bastard I think it is an oblique Monty Python and the Holy Grail reference, to the moose jokes in the credits. "Mynd you, moose bites Kan be pretti nasti..."
  17. The new ships were captained and crewed on Aurane's orders/suggestion (younger candidates), whereas the older ships would have existing captains and crews. The old captains would probably be less likely to sail off/desert with Aurane, therefore, it is only the new ships. (Just a guess, but it seems like reasonable logic.)
  18. Was polygamy practiced in the Valyrian Freehold?
  19. A few months after the Purple Wedding (AFFC Jaime 2), Roose is still below the Neck and is heading north with all his forces (maybe 1000? who knows), and the two Freys and 2,000 Frey soldiers. That is a large force and Roose would be cautious of crannogmen. In addition, the Ironborn still held Moat Cailin and we know the crannogmen were busy attacking them. Lastly, Ramsay came down from the North with a largish force to take Moat Cailin (not sure on the number), and he was also reasonable cautious of crannogmen. It is just not feasible, from what we know of the tactics of the crannogmen to get to Roose through 3,000 men up to Moat Cailin and even more after it was taken.
  20. I just skimmed through Alayne II, which the wiki uses as a citation to say he was a knight, but I am not seeing anything that actually says that.
  21. Craster may have asked where Gared was, as he was not with the Great Ranging. Gared would have interacted with Craster a lot of the last 40 years of Gared being in the NW. Perhaps Craster thought of Gared as a friend. News always travels faster than the party in a JRPG, err, in a fantasy novel, err.... Probably overthinking it, but I have not read the 'Benjen is sausage' theory.
  22. Has GRRM ever mentioned "The Flight of Dragons" by Peter Dickinson as an influence?
  23. Has GRRM ever mentioned "The Flight of Dragons" by Peter Dickinson as an influence?
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