Knight of the Laughing Tree

If anyone was following my blog KnightotLaughingTree, I am shutting it down.

It was marked as explicit by dumblr and they have refused to answer any of my inquiries into this, which means 99% of my posts won’t even show up on my followers feeds. And of course I did not get any notification that this was happening so I just thought everyone hated everything I had to say :( lol

What in the actual fuck is wrong with these people. (Not all of them are psychos, I know) but it is people like this that give J0nsa’s and Tumblr a bad name.

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Jon: *does anything*

First, to give credit: this meta doesn’t come strictly from me. The Youtube channel Talking Thrones posted a video that talks in a few of the same directions I write about here; and @oadara and I discussed a lot of this between us over DM, so much of this comes out of that as well.

So there are two main prophecies most people focus on when it comes to ASOIAF/GOT, which are: 

- The prophecy that Maggy the Frog gave to Cersei when she was a girl. 

- The Prince Who Was Promised/Azor Ahai prophecy that talks of a coming hero who will save the world from the coming darkness.

First, let’s look at what George R. R. Martin himself says about prophecies, particularly in fantasy fiction:

Prophecy is a staple element in fantasy, but it’s tricky,” Martin noted. “You want to play with the notion of prophecies coming true but in an unexpected way. You want to be unpredictable about it. Shakespeare is the ultimate example of that—when the forest of Birnam Wood coming to Dunsinane Castle, MacBeth will fall. Everybody laughs—how can the forest come to the castle. [Malcolm] came camouflaged with branches and so on. Also, during the War of the Roses, one of the lords was prophesized that he would die at a certain castle. So he always took pains to avoid that castle. But then in the first The Battle of St Albans, he was wounded and died outside a pub that had that castle on its pub sign. You have to look at prophecies carefully and look at the weasel-wording.  

(George R. R. Martin, Entertainment Weekly, 04/12/2015)

Martin is specifically talking about two types of prophecies here in the examples he gives: the self-fulfilling prophecy and the non-literal prophecy.