So bouncing off your theory on giants being in the Wall…. If the Horn of Winter/Joramum does wake these things then two things come to mind. It sounds suspiciously like part of the NW oath “I am the horn that wakes the sleepers”, and the fact that Sam may or may not have the real horn in Oldtown… where supposedly the base of the Hightower was made by Bran the Builder. I always wondered what the point of GRRM sending that Horn to Oldtown… I guess the Hightower must come down.

Very interesting points…

Why was Baelor given the sobriquet Breakspear? Wouldn’t it have been a more fitting nickname for someone on the Black side who fought against the Martells?

Baelor was a famous tourney knight, so it refers to the many lances he broke in the tilts.

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Based off a long conversation from Twitter, but I’ve started to have some ideas about the Horn of Joramun, one of the more significant objects in the series if assumptions are right that it will bring down the Wall. The Horn is a curious object, because it seems to have a strong duality about it: it’s known as both the Horn of Winter and the Horn of Joramun, and it is supposed to have “woke…

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Regarding your “horn of Joramund only works within earshot” theory, how do you think the wall is going to collapse considering the horn is on the other side of the continent with Sam in oldtown?

Hightower works as an amplification device for the magic, not necessarily the sound. Although that could work too.

About your theory on the Horn of Joramund, which I kinda like, I think it goes well with Ygritte’s mourning of the last giants and her “you know nothin”. The legend says that Joramund “woke the giants from the Earth”, not that he could have done it but that he actually did it. If he decided not to use the Horn to bring the Wall down, which giants did he wake with the Horn?

I’m guessing other giants. My working theory is that the Horn usually works only within earshot, so if used in the Far North it would wake giants who had gone to hibernate beneath the earth, but if used near the Wall, it would bring the Wall down.

Why did WW1 drag on for so long? It’s often said that the major powers only went to war in the hope of a quick victory and were dismayed at how costly in men and resources the war became, so why wasn’t there a negotiated peace in 1915 or 1916?

I would recommend listening to Dan Carlin’s series on WW1.

This is something that I’ve wondered for a while. but didn’t know who to ask. Why, in the American Civil War and others like it, didn’t the soldiers wear helmets?

warsofasoiaf:

racefortheironthrone:

Because at the time, advances in firearms were ahead of advances in armor. Not until 1915 was the technology there to make a helmet that would stop a bullet.

This is actually a misconception about WWI-era helmets. The English Brodie helmet couldn’t really stop a direct round from a machine gun. What they were best suited for was protecting from falling debris and shrapnel that exploded overhead, and they could handle ricochets. The curved shape of the Brodie could at times deflect bullets, but they couldn’t stop them.

But Professor Attewell is definitely right, the advances of rifling technology in the US Civil War far outstripped their defensive capabilities. The new Minie ball which had debuted in the Crimean War made rifles far faster to reload, and the new shape of the bullet meant that instead of flattening, the bullet would corkscrew into its victims, splintering bone and causing massive compound fractures. This is why so many WIA’s in both the Crimean War and the US Civil War required amputations compared to eras past.

-SLAL

I thought the stahlhelm could stop a rifle bullet, no?

A Theory About the Horn of Joramun

julianlapostat:

racefortheironthrone:

Based off a long conversation from Twitter, but I’ve started to have some ideas about the Horn of Joramun, one of the more significant objects in the series if assumptions are right that it will bring down the Wall.

The Horn is a curious object, because it seems to have a strong duality about it: it’s known as both the Horn of Winter and the Horn of Joramun, and it is supposed to have "woke giants from the earth” and it’s also supposed to have the power “bring this cold thing down.” And yet, even through Joramun was a King Beyond-the-Wall “in ancient days,” whom Jeor Mormont places as coming before the Horned Lord and the brothers Gendel and Gorne, and describes all of them as having “broke his strength on the Wall, or was broken by the power of Winterfell on the far side,” the Wall still stands.

Why did Joramun never use the Horn to bring down the Wall?

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Seems legit…and the Giants being bound inside the Wall as imprisoned slaves and human batteries is a rather dark look at the legend and magic of Bran the Builder, and it does prove, in contemporary parlance that the Wildlings were right, Bran the Builder was a jackass.

And you have the human sacrifice theme which is the biggest connective thread of the series.

It’s possible the theme is to what lengths people were willing to go in the Long Night to preserve any form of warm-blooded life. Or it’s possible they’re willing sacrifices, that’s another theme of the series.

What do we Know of the Lands North of yi ti and asshai Beyond the five forte ? Thank you

Very little. There is the steppe of the Jogos Nhai, the small kingdom of the N’ghai, the forests of Mossovy, but everything to the east of the Bleeding Sea gets really weird…there’s the Land of the Shrykes, the mysterious city of K’dath and its mad gods, Bonetown which lives off of paleontology, the Cities of the vampiric Bloodless Men, Carcosa ruled over by its yellow emepror, the City of the Winged Men, but beyond that the Grey Wastes and the Cannibal Sands stretch off into the blank spaces of all maps.

Couldn’t Renly have thrown his lot behind the Tyrells BECAUSE he loves Loras? Like. Robert left a lot and then he’s king. Stannis and Cressen left. Now he’s surrounded by people who only see a lord, not Renly. And then there’s Loras. So he plots to make Margaery a queen in order to prove his value, to make Loras stay. I also think Loras loved Renly for Renly. Renly was just insecure, so he listened for Tyrell desires and tried to fulfill them to silence those insecurities.

Renly didn’t throw in his lot behind the Tyrells, the Tyrells threw in their lot behind him, as we see when they support his bid to become king.