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Joffrey's murder was necessary after that. Without Joffrey's death, Storm of Storms would have destroyed my ability to ever care about another human being again.
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Like people have already said it wouldn't have made much sense and it would have been foreshadowing things very far into the future. I'm sure they will find other ways to include the scene later in the series if it is necessary.
And you never know, it may have been removed because it is a complete red herring!
I am ... like 300 pages into the 3rd book, and I still haven't figured out if Tywin knows about this, let alone what his opinion on it is ... I get a few vague impressions about how he'd deal with it, but it wasn't spelled out or anything.
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Well then...guess I'll need to literally strap her to the couch to make sure she keeps watching for that payoff.
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Pretty sure that so far
I'm pretty sure he had about six or seven of them.
Re-reading is so helpful. You would have to have the memory of God to catch everything on a first readthrough.
(It feels so weird to jump mid-series to e-book...)
Just be thankful the series doesn't center around the Freys!
But the books are also never from Tywin's perspective.
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She was going to go to court to be a lady and learn about the court and stuff (like Ned wanted for Arya) but when Jamie decided to join the Kingsguard, Tywin changed his mind and Cersei stayed in Casterly Rock, or something like that.
I highly suspect Tywin didn't know because he didn't want to know.
I transferred this from the TV Show thread because I didn't want to open up a can of worms that would lead to people who have read the book guessing on something the show (as far as I know) did not announce
Who is the girl at the bottom left of this picture....she is sitting awfully close to the King's children. I am guessing she is Maergery Tyrell? I can't even remember if any other Tyrell's were at the Tournament other than Loras....but looking at the color, and what looks like a flower on her dress, that was my guess. Anyone?
I haven't re-read the series in a couple of years, so I am due to re-read it, and I am fighting the urge to re-read it in preparation of Dance coming out, since then I'll have to wait to read the new book. ARGH!!
pretty sure it's just a random extra/lady
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This pissed Tywin off something fierce because Jaime was always his chosen heir.
That's where Greywater Watch is, which IIRC is kind of boggy and marshy. Plus on the west side of the Neck is a forest, which could be hell to get through quickly. Plus they were in a hurry to make the diversion work.
It's really terrible terrain, if I recall correctly. Swamps and such. Not good for troop movements.
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As trolly as Fizban often is, it is a legitimate question that people may have been thinking if they don't remember the books very well.
Also not terribly likely to cause arguments.
He may prove me wrong.
Honestly, I just don't look at the maps as being particularly useful in terms of solving these questions. In the later books, it always sounds like there are infinitely more large riverways than the map really suggests that completely encumber travel off of the King's Road, though I suppose that's because it's apparently typhoon season from A Storm of Swords > A Feast for Crows. But still, I just don't bother trying to figure out why people travel how they do, and trust that these imaginary people do in fact know their way around an imaginary landscape.
Fantasy writers tend to be awful at dealing with the logistics of medieval armies. Their armies tend to be too big, too fast and too effective. Throughout most of human history, a significant majority of every army was pretty useless for anything other than terrorizing enemy civilians and MAYBE defending in place. They were poorly trained, poorly organized and tended to fall apart when they ran into real opposition (witness, for example, what typically happened to much larger Persian armies when they ran into smaller, but highly trained Greek units that weren't afraid to actually attack their enemies and fight).
Robb needed to move his army across roads and bridges because if he started taking them through marshes or heavy woods, many of them would just wander off and go back home. It is very difficult to keep a medieval army made up heavily of peasant levies in the field for any significant period of time.
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