re: Crackpot ASOIAF Theories SPOILERS

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One of my favorite moments was when Joffrey died; I was thinking, "it's about damn time."

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i actually gave a fist pump

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Although, I think that Janos Slynt's death was the most satisfying frick-yeah moment in the books.

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This may have elicited some happy profanity.

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A poster on here said that Stannis has to do the nod like this gif:

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Definitely

Out of all the speculation and theories out there does anybody think there are any that GRRM doesn't tie up by the end of the series? Assuming he lives long enough to actually finish the series in the first place.

There's just so many theories out there that I can only see two ends to ASOIAF

1. He doesn't tie up all these loose ends
Or
2. These next two books will be filled with action from start to finish and simply be amazing

the only that sort of bugs me is that Jon, in his current form, burned.

Here you go Xenophone. Maybe ironclad was a string word, but it just makes too much sense.

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I read a theory once about how the Blackfish and Ser Barristan had a thing for each other during the War of the Ninepenny Kings and that was why Barry took the white and Blackfish never married.

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Out of all the speculation and theories out there does anybody think there are any that GRRM doesn't tie up by the end of the series? Assuming he lives long enough to actually finish the series in the first place.

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I think that he let his writing run away from him after book 2. There are way too many possible outcomes that he has foreshadowed and I think thats probably the honest reason that he is taking so long to write books, despite the multiple other projects he makes time to complete every year. If you have read the Dunk and Egg Novels along with books 1-5 you've probably noticed this. 90% of the foreshadowing for the story as a whole was done in Book 1 when he intended a 3 book series. I just want to see it finished at this point.

According to the mixed responses from his interviews I'm pretty certain that he isn't decided on what it means to be a head of the dragon, a dragon rider, a Targ, a worg, or how any of those correlate with the others. Dany has been immune to fire and then suddenly not about 3 times now. He hinted at Robb's wife being with child before completely debunking that idea in the show. And god only knows if Arthur Dayne is Mance Rayder, I feel like a mosh of his fan forums could have finished the thing off by now.

Joffrey's death was anti climatic; even when I was a Hodor I figured that he wouldn't stay alive as king for the whole series.

Plus South Park ruined it for the Hodors by saying he gets poisoned .

That's what I figured too; otherwise it would be an interesting theory.

Barristan was/is so much older than Ashara.

I myself buy into the Crackpot theory that Ashara=Jyanna Reed, and that she faked her death and is Meera and Jojen's mother and Howland's wife.

It's perfectly ok . A lot of readers think she's going to lead a Dothraki Khalasar back to Mereen.

Also, this is somewhat MAJOR news, although maybe I'm being a bit optimistic. Roy Dotrice, the man who does the narration for all the ASOIAF audiobooks, revealed something in a recent interview:

Roy Dotrice says that GRRM said he has to do an audiobook 'really soon'

ASOIAF forum thread talking about the interview

...Could this mean that George will have the book out by Christmas 2014, perhaps? Also, I didn't know this, but Liam Cunningham (Davos) revealed in an interview back in March that GRRM told him that he was halfway through TWoW.

What are y'all's thoughts on GRRM's progress? Could it be that since he's reaching the end (and has known the endgame since he started AGOT) that he's finding it easier to write about, since the journey has reached the destination?