A Song of Ice and Fire
Apr. 14th, 2006 01:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
snorkackcatcherWell, I've finally finished A Feast for Crows (earlier than expected -- those bloody appendices seem to grow longer every time and always catch me out) and am therefore protected against spoilers at least until A Dance with Dragons is published.
Yay. :)
So if anyone has any interesting ASOIAF theories or sites to point me to, please do. :D
Yay. :)
So if anyone has any interesting ASOIAF theories or sites to point me to, please do. :D
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Date: 2006-04-14 06:46 pm (UTC)don't spoil me!
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Date: 2006-04-14 09:18 pm (UTC)Well, except to say that a LOT happens in the two parts of Book 3. Feast for Crows is quieter and deals with the fallout from all that ...
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Date: 2006-04-14 10:00 pm (UTC)My personal favourit ASOIAF theory is wildly controversial. I believe that Jon Snow is exactly who were were told he was in the first place - Ned Stark's bastard child by a lowborn woman called Wylla. And Lyanna is his auntie - no more and no less.
I seem to be the only person in the fandom who thinks this, however.
What I would most like to see - I'm not saying it will happen, but it would be the coolest thing ever if it did - would be if all those horns we keep reading about get mixed up - Crow's-Eye attempts to control a dragon with the Wall-demolishing horn and nothing happens at all because he's too far off from the wall, Jon attempts to demolish the Wall and gets a tentacle-sore and very annoyed kraken dragging itself to his castle a week later, and Sam Tarly blows his old horn for a bet and suddenly finds himself irresistable to dragons, to his huge embarrassment...
Crackpot enough for you? I'm sure I can think of more loopy theories if that's too sane...
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Date: 2006-04-14 10:18 pm (UTC)As far as Jon goes, I wondered if he could actually be Ned's brother's bastard (and hence slightly older than he thinks?). I was also wondering if that legitimising document Robb was planning to sign ever would have consequences. (Of all the characters killed off so far, that one hurt the most.)
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Date: 2006-04-15 03:33 am (UTC)And there are tons of theories all over my flist, especially just after AFfC came out.
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Date: 2006-05-02 07:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-02 07:54 pm (UTC)(Sorry, seem to have missed this before.)
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Date: 2006-04-15 01:12 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-05-02 01:04 pm (UTC)So, just finished AFFC, eh? I thought it was actually a wee bit of a letdown (but then, that might've been because I couldn't get hold of the darn thing for a week, a whole WEEK after finishing A Storm of Swords. Damned Barnes and Noble let me down), but am looking forward to a calm reread.
But for now, on Jon - I think he might even have been the bastard of Rhagear (sp? Good god, the sheer amount of names to remember in this series) and Ned's sister (the woman Robert was so in love with, anyway). May've explained why she died - in childbirth.
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Date: 2006-05-02 07:52 pm (UTC)Jon as the child of Rhaegar and Ned's sister seems to be a popular and very plausible theory, although I wondered about Ned's brother actually. But he's certainly proud and stubborn enough to be Ned's son!
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Date: 2006-05-02 08:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-02 09:46 pm (UTC)Hmm. Of the ones still (possibly) surviving, probably Dany, Tyrion, Davos, Margaery Tyrell, the Blackfish, and (surprisingly) Jaime and Littlefinger.
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Date: 2006-05-02 10:04 pm (UTC)Yours are pretty much the sae as mine, I think - especially with Littlefinger. He's just so impossibly devious :D Before book 4, I think Arya would've been up there with everyone else, but she just got so darn boring in AFFC *rolls eyes* Well, not so boring, but she's so clearly a child, and a confused, angry one at that, that it just kinda became more of the same thing after a while. Sansa's stuff was possibly the most hilarious to read, though - she was so, so daft in book 1, and it was really fun to see her evolve into her not-quite-as-daft self in book four.
Oh, and of course - Jaime. I'm not surprised that I like him so much, actually, given the way his character was developed. He, most of all, is so unfailingly human that you can't help but emphathise with his sorrows, such as they were. I think that's my fave thing about the series in general - everyone is so human, even at their highest, most glorious points.
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Date: 2006-05-02 10:22 pm (UTC)Ah well. I'm expecting Arya to be in place in Braavos when Dany finally gets there, and quite likely Tyrion as well (if he hasn't sought her out already). The dragon has three heads and all that. The possibly awkward thing is what might happen when/if Victarion meets her -- I don't much like the Ironborn, but he does seem her type. :)
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Date: 2006-05-02 10:31 pm (UTC)Oh, goodness, I'd forgotten about the three-headed dragon thing - Arya's blindness shouldn't deter her at all in that regard, I should think.
Oh, and Victarion/Dany meeting, I'm sooo looking forward to that. I don't know whether any formal or informal relationship between them would last very long (Dany's so independent - one thing I do love about her. And the Ironborn all seem rather fixed on the idea of their women remaining at home - remember, Asha Greyjoy is still unmarried), but it'd be fun to watch. Almost as fun to watch as Dany's emphatic rejection of Ser what's-his-name - gawd but he was daft to think that Dany, who effectively condemned her brother to being crowned with molten gold AS WELL AS birthed her dragons with the blood of that maegi witch person very seriously involved, would be his ickle darling queen. IMHO, she's just as dangerous, in her own way, as the Red Priestess - or, at least, soon will be.
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Date: 2006-05-02 10:45 pm (UTC)Right, time for me to catch up on a bit of sleep, I think. :)