re: Crackpot ASOIAF Theories SPOILERS

Greetings, long time lurker. ASOIAF is riddled with historical mythos, from Paris kidnapping Helen and sparking a war (Rhaegar/Lyanna), to Nero fiddling while Rome burned (Aerys threatening to burn Kings Landing), all the way to Hadrian's wall keeping the Wildlings (Scotts) out of their civilization.

This is a great topic, I wrote my final collegiate paper on Tolkien's influences aside from the Bible, like Beowulf, Grimm and the Arthur Legends.

I love finding history in fiction.