After the events in Season 7 of Game of Thrones, who is the current ruler of Dorne?
In past seasons we saw how
And now after Season 7
so, who is the current ruler of Dorne?
@Edlothiad Same with asoiaf, KutuluMike, System Down, TLP, Shevliaskovic, Tenth Justice, Mike Scott are rarely active. Only a handful of us remain to serve the realm
Mike Scott has been giving pretty awful answers recently, 3 to 4 lines, un-sourced head canon. But KutuluMike has been away mostly, rarely answering even marvel questions. I don't know about the other guys, but some of the users haven't read the books etc. I'd say the top asoiaf contributors are you, skoobs and moozaroot.
@Aegon Oh god let me know when, I need to be prepared! I need to figure out how to get my ebooks at work. There's no asearchoficeandfire.com for tolkien (yet)
@Edlothiad I tried before as well. Read as far as when Frodo and company reached the Prancing Pony. Then I said meh I'll get to it later. Might be a while.
@Aegon It's a slow start, you have to bare in mind it was written in the 30s because everyone wanted a sequel to the hobbit, he'd have preferred to just write his silmarillion
@Edlothiad I have gotten a lot of hate for saying this previously but Tolkien's style didn't appeal to me. The phrasing was way too flowery and archaic. And he tends to dump a lot of historical info on new readers right in the beginning. Let the story flow, add chunks of background along the way.
I have been told that that might be because I am not a native English speaker.
But I dislike the same flowery phrasing style in literature of my mother tongue as well. So maybe that's not the case
Of course we have to consider that Tolkien wrote his works , what, 60-70 years ago?
@Aegon The 60th anniversary was a few years ago, gosh that was a GORGEOUS hard cover book. 60GBP, but so worth it (I have a collection of his works :) )
@Aegon For Tolkien he didn't care about selling it to readers or making money. He was a professor of one of the most prestigious course at the most prestigious university at the time (English and the Classics and Oxford). He wrote his stories because he wanted to create a mythology for the UK in the same way the Norse and the Greeks had theirs, and in doing so felt the need to be very descriptive when creating his world
I have watched the movies however more times than I care to admit. I know the dialogues by heart by now. But judging by how GoT irks me due to deviations from the book, guess that's the same with Tolkien readers who appear to generally dislike the movies.
@Aegon Meh more money. why only make 2/3s of the profit you could make. I know in the UK people flooded to the cinemas, hell I payed 17GBP to go see the midnight screening at the BFI IMAX (one of the biggest screens in the world) and because I knew Ian McKellen would show up. And that cinema had about 150 people in it.
The thing with GOT and ASoIaF and Tolkien is that there isn't the same amount of users spamming 100s of answers on a post to keep them in the HNQ for 3-4 days so it's rare you get a Great Answer
@Aegon It's just surprising how many hit 100 though, if it's a HNQ it's almost 75% certain a quick un-sourced top voted answer will hit 100
Daniel Roseman and Mike Scott have both started doing that, and if they get a 5 upvote headstart, gg there answer is the top. Unlike your "fan-fiction" it just couldn't stay down could it
580 rep from 20k, easily doable in 3 days if I find questions to answer
@TheLethalCoder Woke up, through on clothes, grabbed leftover tart (thank god there was some) and ran to the bus. Literally ran, in my business shoes, a kilometer uphill to get the bus.
I'm fine with it, never had any problems with my legs so far... apart from when I slipped into a fence playing football and took a massive slice out of my knee haha
@Edlothiad Nice one, I've recently moved into my own office now. Though we work with big scanners so I used noise complaint as an excuse.
Since you was talking about Tolkein earlier I keep misreading this line of code _cancellationTokenSource.Token.IsCancellationRequested
@Edlothiad Programming is just problem solving once you learn the syntax :) What language do you use?
@Edlothiad Our building was built in the 70s I think and the company hasn't really grown with employee size since then so I used to work out in the "showroom" where everyone could see me. Problem was I was surrounded by industrial scanners and when they're running you can't hear yourself think. So I asked to move into an office and they let me :D
@TheLethalCoder Right now I'm automating a Delphi Gui using either SikuliScript or Ranorex. Sikuli is basically Jython (basically Python) and Ranorex is basically C#/VB.net
@TheLethalCoder Ah that's awesoeme, the only complaint I'd have is "Sun's in my eyes", but they'd just say "close the curtains"
The office is basically like being at home, curtains on the windows, desk like I had over uni, it's funny
@Edlothiad I've been to Switzerland once before. It is really nice from what I saw of it. There was one building with a bar at the top and when you went for a dump you were exposed to the windows. Was kind of cool/odd at the same time haha.
Looking out over all the people going about there business below as you're going about a different kind of business above them haha
@Edlothiad I can't remember to be honest, was a few years ago. We went to visit family friends, who've since moved back, so we were kind of being shown around. I didn't really take in most of the place names.
I was watching a discussion between Elio and Linda, co-authors of The World of Ice and Fire and founders of Westeros.org, on Annullments in Westeros, in light of recent developments in the show.
Linda says in that video:
We do have an example of course from ...
I was watching a discussion between Elio and Linda, co-authors of The World of Ice and Fire and founders of Westeros.org, on Annullments in Westeros, in light of recent developments in the show.
Linda says in that video:
We do have an example of course from ...
@Aegon Closest thing I can find is the Ironborn and the rock wife and salt wives situation.
"Salt marriages, like rock marriages, were customarily performed by priests of the Drowned God ... and the children of such unions were considered legitimate."
That's what I mean it's a close situation but not the one they are talking about.
They are considered legitimate Baratheons but are in fact Lannister bastards.
I suppose they could have got mixed up with the timeline and assumed Jon to be this case. It wasn't IU but from what we're shown OOU he was a bastard Stark, then bastard Targ and now a legitimate Targ.
Yeah so TLDR, if we consider the marriage binding, The daughters were legit and never bastards. If we consider the marriage a farce and invalid, they were bastards all along.
@Edlothiad "Robert could piss in a cup and men would call it wine, but I offer them pure cold water and they squint in suspicion and mutter to each other about how queer it tastes." Stannis ground his teeth.
So examples they could be talking about but none seem to fit: - Ironborn saltwife children - Jaime and Cersei's children - Jon - Megette's children - Sand snakes
@Edlothiad TWOIAF doesn't mention the chronology. The order of phrasing however suggests that the daughters were born afterwards
"Megette was installed in a house in King's Landing; she and Aegon were even "wed" in a secret ceremony conducted by a mummer playing a septon. Megette gave her prince four children in as many years. "
@TheLethalCoder Should probably mention that in the question
In You Win or you Die Jeor Mormont says:
You came to us as outlaws, poachers, rapers, killers, thieves. You
came alone, in chains, without friends or honor. You came to us rich
and you came to us poor. Some of you bear the names of proud Houses,
others only bastard names or no names at ...
Is it this line "So all of this seems to back up your claim that people who take the black should no longer claim their titles."? I tried to counter that with the next sentence but might not have done it well.
Here's a question for you: If Jon had been legitimised at any point until now he would have been a "true" Stark. As we know he is actually a Targaryen. Do we know what would happen then? Would he actually be a Stark still or would he revert to a Targ? I suppose it falls down to the ruler to decide?
While people combine coat of arms e.g. Joff using both stag and lion, Big Walder and lil Walder mixing sigils of their mothers and their fathers, none use both names
Linda's referring to a detail from George's material that was cut from TWoIaF, but will be appearing in FIRE AND BLOOD, relating to a situation where Lord Hightower took up with his step-mother following his father's death. The High Septon refused to countenance the relationship and would not all...
@TheLethalCoder He's legitimate doesn't need legitimising. I hope he goes Stark, he's spent his whole life being "Lord Snow" and people making fun of his lack of Starkness
@Edlothiad Even though there is undeniably some merit to the theory, I hate it as well. But then again, I am a Lannister sworn sword and I want Tyrion to remain a Lannister
Not a Lanngaryen...Even the name sounds silly
@Skooba White, not silvery. But what's the diff eh
I'm edging towards Jaime more than Tyrion now but I think for him to actually do it Cersei either needs to do something more rash than she's already done or for him to find out that she wasn't really pregnant (I don't believe she is so I think that might push him over the edge)
@Skooba Yeah because then it essentially falls down to "80% of the population could do it"
Near the end of the film - as Ronan's ship, The Dark Aster, crashes to the ground - Groot creates a protective cocoon for the rest of the team. It all gets very emotional and Groot says:
We are Groot!
As far as I was aware all he can say is "I am Groot". How is he able to do this?
I've s...
I have not read the book, and I am referring here, to the movie only.
I saw in the film that the way to the inside of Helms Deep was through a gate, the way to which inclined up somewhat steeply, and the gate or the road to it, was not attached to or built inside or built into the wall. So, the ...
@Edlothiad Hornburg in the movies did appear to be independent of that wall. Makes sense that people would wonder how would the breach threaten the Stronghold proper
judging by the number of answers and activity, it might make it to HNQ
I am going to go and complaint that "and we see that it nearly fell, too, in the movie." spoiled the Movie for me and now I am going to lock myself in a Washroom and I am never coming out
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I'm being salty that your answer is out-voting mine. It'll mean 12 hours of me disliking your internet persona, then afterwards i'll move on to hating the next guy
It was Aegon for the 12 hours before you, don't worry