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LynnS

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  1. I am well, thank you. Occupied with family matters and spring maintenance. Nice to see you, as well. Yes, he could be put into storage in an ice cell. Not sure this means that is where he will be raised, especially if there is discussion about burning his corpse. So I wonder if Borroq will intervene knowing that Jon's soul is currently house in Ghost. Raising Jon from the crypts at Castle Black.(reserved for Lord Commanders of the NW?) would be interesting forshading for potential events, in the crypts of Winterfell. I'm always hopeful for something a little left field from George.
  2. Another possibility is that Jon could be placed in the crypts at Castle Black:
  3. The Hellebore flower is called the winter rose and it blooms winter to early spring. So if Martin's blue rose is actually the Hellebore, then potentially it could have bloomed in the vicinity of Harrenhall during the false spring. This could well be a plant that the Starks acquired at some point and kept in their glass garden. This was first mentioned by Fattest Leach a few years ago and I stumbled across it elsewhere. It didn't get any traction as a possibility. Hellebore flowers resemble a Tudor rose and they have superstitious associations with magic. Edit: To expand on the hellebore a bit as the winter rose; if it grows as a wildflower; it's rarity would be that it only blooms late winter to early spring, pushing through snow and ice and given the lengths of winters; it would only be seen rarely in the North. If you want it to bloom yearly; it would have to be kept in a greenhouse. Oddly, when Dany tells Jorah about her vision in the HoU of a blue flower growing from a chink in the ice; he names it a blue rose. This seems to be something he has seen himself before and isn't he the one who educates Dany on the wildflowers of Essos? The idea that the winter rose is a wildflower fits with the symbolism of Lyanna as a wild beauty as described by Kevan Lannister. So I don't know why the blue rose has to be the type with which we are more familiar. I'm surprised that Highgarden doesn't grow them or we would have heard about it. There is also no blue hellebore, just as there is no blue rose or red comet. But these things fall into the same category; one representing dragons and the other white walkers with Lyanna in the middle as we see in Ned's fever dream. Not really parody, but something that seems fitting and plausible to me. Cheers!
  4. Girlnextgondor is brilliant. This is really interesting:
  5. Have you seen the aurora over the past few days?
  6. HAH! My niece is going to be on parade for the King's coronation as part of the Canadian contingent. There is going to be a Coronation Party in this house!
  7. I was going to say that they are more akin to Mel's lot but opposite. If there is an analog to dragons; it might be ice spiders. I still like the idea of winterized wargs. But were they such in the beginning?
  8. I don't much sympathy for her and I'll have even less when Shireen is burned. I can understand her behaviour but I don't excuse it.
  9. Oh my goodness. Poor Dany. First she's sold to Drogo because of her looks and now she's a white saviour? I hope she is the saviour of women and children in this society. The men aren't going to reform themselves. Who better to do that than a woman. I thought that was GRRM's point.
  10. I'm leaning this way too. Mel says you can't have light without dark; so I'm guessing that the ice side is an unintended consequence of the fire sorcery that created the dragons. In fact, she generates light to create shadow assassins as witnessed by Davos. Moqorro might be hinting at the causal event when he talks about the Doom of Valyria; that men delved too deep and there were consequences.. I think this goes back to the old story of two moons in the sky. I don't think there were actually two astronomical bodies; but one physical and one metaphysical. By that I mean someone who can appear as the moon; like Bran when he chases Jon in his wolf-dream. Something that certain characters can perceive with the third eye. Bloodraven tells Bran that the weirwood faces will be the first eyes he will see through but that he will not need that at some point. This is why Bran was given flying lessons by the 3EC; so he could astral project or fly and view the world from the sky. The 3EC has mastered that level of magic. The eyes in the sky that can see across continents as shown in Bran's coma dream. So getting back to the two moons; was this another who could fly and came disguised as the moon to those who could perceive it? When the moon flew too close to the sun (eclipse); she cracked open and a thousand, thousand dragons poured forth. Are we getting a story about the original mother of dragons and her dragonseed descendants? Perhaps this is the preternatural event that created dragons fire and air made flesh; and their opposite, ice and air made flesh. So I lean towards vulcanism to explain why the sun hid it's face; an event that may have taken place when the moon cracked open. Makes me wonder what will come pouring out of the Blood Moon; monstrous and swollen (pregnant?) as it is. This appears to be Euron/Sauron's eye in the sky.
  11. Excellent! Really interesting and enjoyable to read. Some fascinating insights and intuition here.
  12. That was like reading something out of Discworld. I was hearing Nigel Planer's voice. Also, I was reminded of this:
  13. Sounds great. It's not easy to come up with something that might be new to some ears. Trying to find something that isn't too complicated or won't cause conflict is walking a fine line these days. It doesn't seem worth it sometimes.
  14. The idea that the sun hid its face and the darkness started in the North, affecting the globe; mirrors descriptions of the year with no sun. Starting at 26 minutes:
  15. Something interesting - The year without a sun 536 - 560 AD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_winter_of_536#:~:text=Modern scholarship has determined that,the atmosphere for several years. GRRM's inspiration for the Long Night perhaps?
  16. I saw a fascinating demonstration of ChatGPT on The Philosophers Games podcast the other day! It just amazes me how far technology has progressed.
  17. Cheers! I'm over the covid. It took about 10 days and lots of sleep. I've been thinking about the Sky Gods lately and I might have something in a week or so...
  18. Yes, I can't explain it or comprehend it. These are characters in a story of high fantasy. We are meant to see them as flawed characters and some are vile beyond question. It's turned into a kind of competition for some readers. I don't know what to say to that and I pass on those threads. I am very much appreciating the humour that is coming out in some threads. There can't be too much of that for my liking.
  19. More on green pea galaxies:
  20. It was interesting to see video footage inside Gibralter. It gives me a better idea of how GRRM imagines the inside of Casterly Rock. You have to wonder how the Eyrie was built and if it was carved out of the mountain ,which seems easier than hawling up blocks of stone, to the pinnacle. Same with Dragonstone. It seems to be carved from the volcano with the main residence inside the volcano.
  21. Not sure of the date of this interview, but more on Casterly Rock:
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