I don't own any, but I have to say the TOJ passage read by Roy Dotrice (sp? - he played the part of the pyromancer on the Blackwater episode) PISSED me off...he swung and missed on two quotes that I just can't get past:

"...Or Aerys would yet sit the Iron Throne, and our false brother..." (sit ON the Iron Throne, he said.) And:

"...and Redwyne bent the knee to pledge us fealty" (bent THEIR KNEES, per Dotrice.)

I'm not being the purist police here, it's just the poetry and flow of the language in that scene is unrivaled in any other book in the series, and to screw with it is like that is just...blasphemy. Besides that, messing up these two common phrases irks me anyway.

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Posted by manwich

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Posted on 5/7/13 at 11:17 am to 19

quote:
I'm not being the purist police here

when is the next Watson ASOIAF club meeting?

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Posted by Hugo Stiglitz

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Posted on 5/7/13 at 11:21 am to 19

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"When the red star bleeds and the darkness gathers, Azor Ahai shall be born again amidst smoke and salt."

red star bleeds- Daenerys finally getting her period again.

the darkness gathers- The black of the night's watch

smoke and salt- The Wall crying creating steam and salt

-summary from the end of a Bran chapter in Storm of Swords

quote:

Jojen has Sam bring them to the Black Gate, which is an ancient white weirwood growing beneath the Wall and the Nightfort. The face in the weirwood speaks, and Sam answers by reciting his oath; the weirwood permits them to pass by opening its mouth, and as Bran and the others leave Sam behind, the boy feels a drop of water fall on him, a drop as salty as a tear…

This post was edited on 5/7/13 at 11:22 am

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