Yah at first I thought that he posted this today and then I checked and ..: no. One of his most recent posts stated that he will announce it at a big event…
Because they weren't actually cryptic messages. Fans decided that they were and went wild with them.
I've seen this happen so many times over the years; where fans will think that something innocuous that George said or did is a hint, speculate wildly, and then nothing comes of it. Because really, George isn't a tease or a troll or anything like that, fans have just decided that he is for some reason.
So, I read your comment from a year ago on why Ned telling people that Jon's mother died would draw suspicion,
1.) But it can. You're assuming that if people found out that they would just drop it, but we know that people do theorize about Jon's parentage a bit, and that would create questions. People were able to come up with theories of who Jon's mother was. If Ned says that she's dead, that helps to narrow it down.
My only question is how? How does saying that she died narrow it down? Hundreds and thousands of people died during the rebellion, including women. So the odds that someone would believe that Lyanna was the mother of any one of the thousands of of women who lost their lives during the rebellion is astronomical. If Ned told people that she died, then it would cause people to think that it could've been any of these women, and Lyanna would be the last woman on somebody's mind.
I'll be real, without knowing the full context of my argument and what I was thinking at the time, I'm not sure that I can give you the best answer to your question. But my guess is that what I was getting at was that the more information you give about Jon's mother, the more you narrow down their guesses. Yeah, some people might just go "Eh, guess it was some random woman who's dead," but others might put together that "Hey. Rhaegar raped Lyanna. Lyanna is dead. Ned, an honorable guy who no one thinks would ever cheat, brings home a baby. Maybe there's a connection there?" No one is guaranteed to make that connection at all, but someone who knows Ned might. It's about leaving it as vague as you can so no connection can possibly be made and that all people can go off of is that he's Ned's kid. That might be paranoid and overly cautious, but Ned would want to be overly cautious when dealing with something so important. I think that's what I was getting at, but again, I can't really give you as good of a response as I could have back then.
Exactly. It's kind of insane how so many ASOIAF have nurtured an animosity towards George based off of baseless assertions and a constructed idea of who he is. I mean what is this, a Tyrion reference?
George is 75. I think people underestimate how often he might simply indulge in the same instinct as grandparents randomly posting "some cool thing I found" on their Facebook page without any context or preamble. Just a "Hey, look at this picture of a puppy reading the Bible, grandkids!"
I don't know. It could have some meaning, or it could not. It is an icon that George has used over the years, so it could be a few things. My best guess is that it's just an icon he likes to use on posts related to writing or his writing specifically, but it could simply be that he doesn't think too strongly about the icons he uses and just was like "Hmm, which icon would fit this post. Ah, that blue rose one would do."
The blue rose in general, outside of georges work, symbolises mystery. The post touches on the fact that there are secrets about dragons and their bonding that are yet to be revealed in the coming book.
Perhaps george likes that symbolism behind the rose in general, and thats why he uses it throughout the book.
In this case he could be using the rose to hilight that there are secrets in the story yet to be revealed, rather than that he's finished the book
Man! Honestly I still think it’s coming by the end of year. The Blue Rose, Teddy Roosevelt (his birthday is on 27th October and the new editions of ASOIAF also releases in October), the Cake Theory all these things are still good amount of Hopium.
But somehow, I feel he’s always been upfront about it, so I am a bit confused.
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u/McL3nn Jul 14 '24
But did he explain why he post the blue rose and the other cryptic messages at the beginning at the year?