Being big Game of Thrones fans, both the TV show and the book series ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’ (only the first book was called A Game of Thrones), we have decided to start a small series of blogs telling some of the history of the show.
As the show doesn’t always go into a lot of the great lore that George R.R. Martin has written down, sometimes certain characters can feel a little bland or two dimension, or even you, as a viewer of the show, just don’t know enough about them. So what we have decided to do is inform you of some of the history of places, characters, ancient stories, and anything else we feel might be interesting for someone who watches Game of Thrones to learn more about.

Of course the show and books do take a few dramatic turns, especially during season 6 and 7 where the show has over taken the books, so some of the rich stories that feature in the books have been cut. Others, such as certain characters, have been merged together with other characters. One example of this is the Red Priest; Thoros of Myr (played by Dennis Pennis; Paul Kaye) who is a mixture of Thoros and another member of the Brotherhood Without Banners; Tom Sevenstrings, who carries a wooden harp.
Other interesting information cut from the books are things like the fact that Loras Tyrell; the knight of flowers, is not the only son of Mace Tyrell, or that Euron Greyjoy wears an eye-patch and is constantly referred to as “The Crow’s Eye”.
While most of these differences do not matter too much, it is still interesting to know.
Other times the changes may greatly affect who a character is on screen or create convoluted gaps in their background, sometimes making them completely different characters to who they are in the show.
A great example of this is Smalljon Umber who, in the books, dies heroically defending Robb Stark during the Red Wedding before being put down himself, where as in the show, he has allied the Umbers with the Boltons and joins into the thick of it during the Battle of the Bastards, being killed by Tormund Giantsbane when he literally rips his throat out.

We will try our best to provide you with only the information that is relevant to the show and will cut out anything that does not apply, unless it serves as a little bit of key interesting trivia.

If you have any requests for anything you would like to know more on then feel free to give us a shout, let us know, and we will be happy to write something up for you (within reason).

We hope you enjoy it. Keep checking in to Bearded Robot for more Game of Thrones review, theories, history lessons, and other articles.

 

 

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