My only problem with the theory is that I think Tywin would have almost certainly figured it out and would have found a way to sneak an assassin up to Winterfell to kill Jon. Jaime and LF would have their pride in knowing that honorable Ned has a bastard, but I don't think Tywin would not think that crap through that the 2 best members of the Kingsguard and Rhaegar's best friend were there guarding Lyanna Stark. Tywin I think is sly and calculating enough to see through this, although granted he didn't see his children's incest solely because he refused to see it.

I also think that Varys has figured it out, but those are the only 2 that really strike me as having the brains to figure it out.

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Posted by Byron Bojangles III

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Posted on 4/19/15 at 11:20 pm to OMLandshark

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My only problem with the theory is that I think Tywin would have almost certainly figured it out and would have found a way to sneak an assassin up to Winterfell to kill Jon.

How? BOOK SPOILER BELOW FROM BEFORE THE FIRST SEASON

Only Ned and Howland Reed were the survivors of the tower of joy that could have known. Obviously neither would have said anything.

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Posted by Ace Midnight

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Posted on 4/19/15 at 11:21 pm to OMLandshark

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My only problem with the theory is that I think Tywin would have almost certainly figured it out and would have found a way to sneak an assassin up to Winterfell to kill Jon.

A. Jon doesn't have the Targaryean "look" (which may also point away from him actually being Rhaegar's son)

B. Only Ned and Howland Reed survived the battle - there was no one left alive to even tell of a live born child.

C. More reason for Ned to concoct a story to make the child his.

D. Without the look and with Ned's support of Robert as King (and, therefore Tywin's grandchildren as royal heirs) - Tywin may have decided to let sleeping wolves lie.