re: Crackpot ASOIAF Theories SPOILERS

Isn't Snow a common name among bastards in Westeros though?

Only in the North. Each region has its own bastard name.

But anyway, I missed like 95% of all these theories when I read through. I made a huge mistake taking everything at face value.

The Snow thing definitely got me. R+L=J never even crossed my mind. The whole a faceless man killing Balon and jaqen being in the Citadel also never registered to me.

I'm really interested in going through it again with all of these theories in mind to pick up clues.

You will definitely catch more on a reread. Things are more obvious to the reader since you kinda know what to look for.

Another example was I finished reading and got online to look up theories and the first one I seen was titled "Who is the Hooded Man in Winterfell?" I had no clue what the hell it was even talking about. Had to look up what chapter and book it was even in

Reread the chaper "A Ghost in Winterfell" in aDwD. It's chapter 46.
Here's the excerpt:
“Outside the snow was coming down so heavily that Theon could not see more than three feet ahead of him. He found himself alone in a white wilderness, walls of snow looming up to either side of him chest high. When he raised his head, the snowflakes brushed his cheeks like cold soft kisses. He could hear the sound of music from the hall behind him. A soft song now, and sad. For a moment he felt almost at peace.
Farther on, he came upon a man striding in the opposite direction, a hooded cloak flapping behind him. When they found themselves face-to-face their eyes met briefly. The man put a hand on his dagger.
“Theon Turncloak. Theon Kinslayer.”
“I’m not. I never … I was ironborn.”
“False is all you were. How is it you still breathe?”
“The gods are not done with me,” Theon answered, wondering if this could be the killer, the night walker who had stuffed Yellow Dick’s cock into his mouth and pushed Roger Ryswell’s groom off the battlements. Oddly, he was not afraid. He pulled the glove from his left hand. “Lord Ramsay is not done with me.”
The man looked, and laughed. “I leave you to him, then.”

Here's was my theory on the Hooded Man I posted in here previously:

Some say it is Benjen Stark, some say it is Theon Greyjoy’s split personality… I say it is twofold. The “Ghost of Winterfell” (as in hooded man who goes around killing Bolton men) is Mance Rayder (Abel, the singer) with his people, which is the reason Melisandre sent him to Winterfell in the first place as Jon assumed, correctly. But. “Ghost of Winterfell” is also Theon, simply because this is his POV chapter. This means that the title itself foreshadows development of Theon’s character arch that will end in death making Theon another one of Wintefell’s Ghosts. To what end? For one, Theon has suffered enough. Clean death would be a nice way to end his life. And if his death can aid a sorcerer from North of the Wall in resurrecting one of the remaining Stark children, his debt will truly be paid. Bloodraven, with the help of Bran, who’s been communicating with Theon via Weirwood tree (ADWD) and ravens (TWOW), will use Theon’s beheading (suggested to Stannis by Asha in TWOW) as the blood sacrifice and a retribution for Eddard Stark and his boys, to raise Jon from dead. ”There is power in king’s blood” and a reason why the last image Bran Stark saw through Weirwood in ADWD was the blood sacrifice. Death for Life.

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Anybody feel like a dumbass after reading the books and then checking into any theories?

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I'm right there with you

Not clear to someone who doesn't pay great attention

I have a question.

Didn't the group that Robb was going to send up the rivers to the Neck and Greywater Watch break off from Robb's company before they made to the Twins? I assume we will find out more about them in the next book?

I'm assuming this is a show question?