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Taenqyrhae

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  1. This is an example of what I am talking about, the phrase "Gallant Men" has a long history as a phrase referring to soldiers and fighting men, for instance at the memorial to the USS Arizona. So many literary and historical references are seen as references to TV and other pop culture because people don't recognize the literary references in the pop culture they consume.
  2. It appears to be mostly people who don't recognize common themes, cliches, and turns of phrase because they haven't read much non-genre fiction, and then thinking that ASoIaF is referring directly to other books that use the same phrasing. Then there's a lot of people thinking it's referring to television shows or other genre fiction when actually both the books and the other media are referring to the same classical stories that the poster is unaware of. There's a few posts of people picking up on legitimate obvious homages and literary references...for instance, I wouldn't say that GRRM is "ripping off" the Greek myths of Adonis, Ares, and Aphrodite, but I think he's probably very aware of how he's echoing themes and imagery from it.
  3. Sansa lies that she had a dream about Joffrey hunting a white hart. Jeyne asks her if the animal was tame and approached Joffrey, and he did it no harm, as in the legends of heroes, and Sansa says that Joffrey killed it. Adonis was warned by Aphrodite before a hunt not to attack an animal that neither ran from him nor attacked him. He sees a boar that does not run but does not attack him, and he tries to scare it away repeatedly. Eventually he angers the boar and it castrates him with it's tusks. The boar was secretly being controlled by Ares. Lots of obvious parallels here with Joffrey and other Baratheons.
  4. Sorry, most of my evidence is spoilers from books that haven't been published yet. Sometimes it sucks being able to see the future.
  5. Craster is the descendent of the exiled original owners of Casterly Rock. His ancestor made a deal with the Others to ensure their bloodline would remain true until the day they can take back Casterly Rock from the Lannisters.
  6. I just read the "Septa Lemore = Ashara Dayne" theory and though it has a lot of holes, I do think it interesting that she appears to be the only named, attractive female character whose eye color is not described, but on the other hand that does seem very cheap to not include Tyrion noticing something like that. If it was a normal eye color, it would still be a deviation from the normal level of detail in character descriptions but it would be an omission of the omniscient narrator, not unusual that Tyrion's thoughts would not go there. As it is, I wonder if there could be a magic in effect. If you were going into hiding and were famous for having an unusual eye color, it would be something you would have to do something about. Even if the book narrator doesn't notice, other people will. Now, if it was either some kind of glamour to change the eye color or maybe even a natural dye applied by eyedrops that was planned to be revealed later, the text could say "she had brown eyes", maybe even drop a hint in there and a red herring by drawing attention to the eye color, like "unremarkably brown eyes" or "deep brown eyes" or something like that. Instead he, quite noticeably, does not notice the eye color at all. I'm reminded of an old SF novel, A Gift from Earth, in which the protagonist has a psychic power that gives him a sort of semi-realistic invisibility - when he's nervous, people see him without noticing him at all. It was really kind of interesting, people would subconsciously move around him, it wasn't like he was transparent, but they would completely forget he was there (it also kept the character a virgin into adulthood, because every time he was about to lose his virginity he would get nervous and the girl would forget he was there). It seems in keeping with the often subtle effects magic has in the series to have some kind of enchantment to make people just not notice something, like eye color, instead of actually changing the appearance of that thing. Perhaps the kind of illusions that Melisandre creates are only possible now that magic is gaining power, but Lemore has been hiding out for a long time.
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