cubicle47b
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Yeah, Essos is a continent. There's a map floating around where someone tried to piece all the released maps together but no official one.
So two major sequences were pulled out of the book. I assume the Stannis/Bolton confrontation was one of them.Finishing this book where he absolutely wanted to end it would have taken probably another year and more pages than could be realistically bound between two covers. And so much great stuff had happened already that no one, I felt, could be unsatisfied by the developments. So he voluntarily pulled one big sequence out of the book. I lobbied for another and it came out, too.
cubicle47b said:Yeah, Essos is a continent. There's a map floating around where someone tried to piece all the released maps together but no official one.
Basileus777 said:There's an interesting quote in this interview with GRRM's editor.
So two major sequences were pulled out of the book. I assume the Stannis/Bolton confrontation was one of them.
Last Hearth said:Jon Snow is AA reborn.
Where he got assassinated there was a bleed star, smoke and salt(tears), and he will be revived, thus "reborn".
Basileus777 said:Salt from his assassin's tears, smoke his wound, where was the bleeding star?
And Melisandre said that she was trying to see Azor Azhai through the flames, but they kept showing her Snow.
The salt and smoke thing was referenced a bunch in this book, including in Jon's last chapter.
Last Hearth said:Re-read the part about Ser Patrek's death. The part about his cloak which was soaked with blood.
Last Hearth said:Re-read the part about Ser Patrek's death. The part about his cloak which was soaked with blood.
Basileus777 said:There's an interesting quote in this interview with GRRM's editor.
So two major sequences were pulled out of the book. I assume the Stannis/Bolton confrontation was one of them.
Who is Pat?Basileus777 said:The most amusing part of this is that Ser Patrek's symbol is a star because Pat is a Cowboys fan. So Jon is reborn under a bleeding Dallas Cowboys star.
Nesotenso said:Who is Pat?
Thought GRRM was a Jets fan.
Pat from pat's fantasy hotlist. He had a bet with grrm and he won or lost, forget which. So grrm made him a character and killed him off in a gruesome way. Pat is a cowboys fan.Nesotenso said:Who is Pat?
Thought GRRM was a Jets fan.
cubicle47b said:Yeah, Essos is a continent. There's a map floating around where someone tried to piece all the released maps together but no official one.
velvet_nitemare said:I just finished this instant. The wait for the next book starts now, but first a reread.
Jon and Jaime better not be fucking dead.
Loved the Arya assasination chapter. Theon was a good read as well.
Did Ramsay lie in his letter? I think so.
Basileus777 said:Jaime can't die, GRRM already told us in AFFC (Maggie the Frog's prophecy) that he's going to choke Cersei to death. Thank god for ham-fisted plot devices.
ezrarh said:Speaking of that, I don't know if I have a favorable opinion of the events in Essos. We didn't even get to see the climatic battle.
bluemax said:Solving the Mereen Knot by not doing anything! Brilliant plotting by the American Tolkien.
Ignatz Mouse said:I'm avoiding reading as to avoid spoilers, but felt the need to post this again: http://isadancewithdragonsoutyet.com/
WRONG!!!
I would say the siege of Mereen. No way Dany can get the new Khal back in time..cubicle47b said:I assumed they were pulled from the end of the book and my guess was Dany fighting the Khalasar so there'd be a bit more momentum to her story (she'd be ready to return to / free Mereen and immediately leave for Westeros at the beginning of TWoW). I had no idea about the other one but Stannis/Bolton is possible.
shintoki said:Around 250. So blonde woman on Tyrion's Boat is Snow's mother now? Or is it just Martin trying to divert away from R+L.
shintoki said:Around 250. So blonde woman on Tyrion's Boat is Snow's mother now? Or is it just Martin trying to divert away from R+L.
HarryHengst said:Calling it now: Quentyn dying is the "sun rising in the west and setting in the east". His death seem to happen roughly at the same time as Dany finding the khalasar.
yacobod said:Mirri Maz Duurs prophecy from GoT?
HarryHengst said:What was the deal with those kids that were with Varys when he killed Kevan? My first thought was that they were like Arya, Faceless Men in training, but that seemed really silly. But then again, Varys having a bunch of child-killers is stupid too.
This is goddamn brilliant. I never caught onto that.Last Hearth said:Jon Snow is AA reborn.
Where he got assassinated there was a bleed star, smoke and salt(tears), and he will be revived, thus "reborn".
He likes blogging about the Jets more than writing ASOIAF.talisayNon said:wait GRRM is a Jets fan?
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HarryHengst said:Oh shit, Lord Manderley is way more awesome/creepy than i realized at first. If you dont know why, pay close attention to him during Boltons wedding feast and the song he requests.