George RR Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire has gained many fans since the first book in the series, A Game of Thrones, was published in 1998. In the past two years, after the release of the Game of Thrones series, Thrones. , that fan base grew even more. Although there are many fans of the series who won’t bother reading the books, there are many who wanted to see more details and learn more about the world of Westeros and its aristocracy: House Lannister, House Stark, House Targaryen, and others, and those delivered. to the books.
A Song of Ice and Fire is far from over
Unfortunately, only five of the seven planned have been published so far. George RR Martin is known for not being a bookworm who has no life outside of his writing, which is why many fans are sometimes outraged when he chooses to visit a comic instead of sitting in his room and writing the books all day. . 6 years passed between the publication of A Feast for Crows and A Dance with Dragons.
Now, hardcore fans had nothing better to do while waiting for the next installment in the series to come out than to re-read the books that were already available. When you first read a story, it’s easy to rush to see what happened, so you may miss a lot of important details. George RR Martin is a master of those details. When re-reading the books, you come across many details that make sense only after you know what happens in the following books.
With two books yet to be published, The Winds of Winter and A Dream of Spring, we are left with plenty of cliffhangers. It doesn’t matter if you are a fan of the series, or the books, or both, you should know that George takes a lot of time to create the believable and realistic characters and story that we love so much, but also that he is yet to come. at an age now, and that he loves fast food from him. Fans’ worst nightmare is that he will die before finishing the story. We hope that doesn’t happen.
But even if (God forbid), there are so many fan-made theories that someone else could easily finish the story for him. We doubt it’s that clever, but it would definitely be interesting.
Popular fan-made theories
If you are a fan of the Game of Thrones series who has no plans to read the books and does not want to hear any spoilers, you should stop reading. Don’t say you weren’t warned!
Now that we’re past the caveat, we can start with the first and most interesting theory. Jon Snow, a favorite character of many fans, is known as the bastard son of the nobleman Ned Stark. This is where the problem begins. Many fans wonder how someone as noble and just as Ned Stark would cheat on his bride so soon after the wedding. Also, nowhere in the book does Ned say that Jon Snow is his son; he always says that Jon is of his blood.
In Game of Thrones, when Ned is left in the darkness of the dungeon, he thinks about the past, dreams and finally hallucinates. So, we find out how the rebellion that made Robert Baratheon king came about because Ned’s sister and Robert’s fiancée, Lyanna, was allegedly kidnapped by Rhaegar Targaryen, the son of Mad King Aerys II. She died in the bed of blood, causing Ned to put some of her in it.
So the theory is that Lyanna wasn’t kidnapped, but instead fell in love with Prince Rhaegar and they had a baby. Since Robert Baratheon hated Rhaegar, Lyanna made Ned promise that she would protect the girl knowing that she would die after giving birth. Ned Stark, being an honorable man and a good brother, raised that child, Jon Snow, as his own son.
The second theory concerns Ser Sandor Clegane, Joffrey Baratheon’s hound. After the Battle of the Blackwater, the Hound escaped. During her wanderings through Westeros, he meets Arya and takes her so he can rescue her from her mother Catelyn Stark and her brother Robb Stark. After that attempt fails, he tries to take her to Riverrun. He is injured in a fight, but instead of killing him, Arya simply leaves him lying next to a tree. Everyone believes him dead.
Now, Brienne of Tarth is also wandering Westeros, trying to find Sansa and Arya Stark. She comes to a small island where silent monks live. She sees a tall hooded man who digs graves for all the victims of war, and also sees Hound’s ferocious horse in those monks’ stables. The head monk tells him how he found Hound dying, and Hound told him his life story. He may be that silent monk who was digging graves, and he will still have a lot to do until he tells himself the story of A Song of Ice and Fire.
Yet another theory concerns Sandor Clegane’s brother, Ser Gregor Clegane, The Mountain That Rides. He was killed in a fight with Prince Oberon of Dorne. However, many fans doubt that this is entirely true. It is known that Maester Qyburn, Cersei Lannister’s man, was stripped of the title of Maester for dealing with dark magic and performing experiments on people who were still alive to investigate death. Fans believe that he used his fascination with death and dark magic to use Gregor’s body to create an undead, similar to the wraiths created by the Others. After Cersei’s walk of shame, she is taken by a huge armored knight. No one sees her face, and that’s suspicious, since Gregor Clegane’s skull was supposedly sent to Dorne.
There are also some other theories, also not so developed. For example, Coldhands, an undead who brought Bran Stark, Hodor, Meera, and Jojen Reed to Children of the Forest, is actually Benjen Stark. Or that Yaqen H’ghar is now in the Citadel in Oldtown, where he trains maesters.
We can’t discuss all of these theories in detail here, but if you’ve read the books, feel free to let us know what you think of these fan-made theories.
If you haven’t read the books or the TV series yet, what are you waiting for?