![]() However, this essay is about none of those. There are numerous others including ones that I would never recognize. This ranges from the obvious and acknowledged influences of the history of the War of the Roses, various world mythologies and literary inspiration like The Lord of the Rings, Memory, Sorrow and Thorn and the poetry of Robert Frost to name just a few. Martin has been inspired by many different schools of thought. It’s long because of the subject and the need to include a lot of quotes from the books to show the comparison I am about to discuss. ![]() Only-–”Ī warning in advance, this is a long essay. There’s the ants builds their cities, live their lives, have wars, revolutions, until the men want them out of the way, and then they go out of the way. The land around the mountain has turned into a “desolation.” The hope for a Hero Returned is part of an actual prophecy, as I will show in a moment. The dwarves made Dale very rich, but after both of their kingdoms fell to Smaug, the current residents live in the shadow of the Lonely Mountain, and fear Smaug’s wrath. Similar to Mel trying to force the issue by crowning Stannis as the Hero come again, the people of Dale are hoping that dwarf-king Thrain returns to his kingdom. But this pleasant legend did not much affect their daily business.” Some sang too that Thror and Thrain would come back one day and gold would flow in rivers, through the mountain-gates, and all that land would be filled with new song and new laughter. The similarities become more clear as Bilbo hears how the residents of the town on the lake (called Esgaroth) have created a prediction about Erebor returning to its former glory: There’s not much they have in common at this point, except their vagueness. In this case with the Hobbit, the legend is about the fall of a wealthy kingdom to a dragon, while Azor Ahai appears to be about a sacrifice to forge a magic sword. So the idea here is that the old stories of the past have become legend, the details are hazy, but memories emerge in snatches and fragments, much like the story of Azor Ahai. But men remembered little of all that, though some still sang old songs of the dwarf-kings of the Mountain, Thror and Thrain of the race of Durin, and of the coming of the Dragon, and the fall of the lords of Dale.” “…in the great days of old, when Dale in the North was rich and prosperous… there had been wars and deeds which were now only a legend. ![]() The ruins of an old town can still be seen around Long Lake, and the dwarves’ fallen kingdom is committed to legend now: Smaug took up residence in the Lonely Mountain and claimed the dwarves’ wealth for his own. Tolkien had his own prophecy twist that I want to relate to Azor Ahai - especially the extremely positive way in which Melisandre and other red priests are interpreting this figure in the text.īefore the events of the Hobbit, Smaug assaulted both the dwarves’ kingdom Erebor and the kingdom Dale where men lived. Trinuviel states that “Rather than being the promise of a saviour, the prophecy should be interpreted as a warning of the coming a destroyer that will bathe the world in fire.” Evidence for AA as a warning or perhaps a bad omen becomes clearer when examining the use of false dawn/lights, connecting the red comet to the imagery of fire and blood, asking if the Red Sword of Heroes is an actual sword, and questioning the orthodoxy that the 3 heads of the dragon are heroes who will save the world. This post builds on series of metas on how Azor Ahai is most likely Daenerys, who fits the criteria for the prophecy, but with a prophecy twist.
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