#books Gregor Clegane

[ligawolfcosplayandarts]

Braids on Ser Gregor Clegane are best. Long haired Clegane brothers aaaaaa

10/31 “Pattern” Inktober 2019

Ever wonder how Ser Gregor Clegane got those whip scars? I know, I know, creating content nobody asked for, I am.

[stromuprisahat]

“ ... There was a brazier in the room. Gregor never said a word, just picked me up under his arm and shoved the side of my face down in the burning coals and held me there while I screamed and screamed. ... My father told everyone my bedding had caught fire, and our maester gave me ointments. Ointments! Gregor got his ointments too. Four years later, they anointed him with the seven oils and he recited his knightly vows and Rhaegar Targaryen tapped him on the shoulder and said, ‘Arise, Ser Gregor’.” The rasping voice trailed off. He squatted silently before her, a hulking black shape shrouded in the night, hidden from her eyes. Sansa could hear his ragged breathing. She was sad for him, she realized. Somehow, the fear had gone away. The silence went on and on, so long that she began to grow afraid once more, but she was afraid for him now, not for herself. She found his massive shoulder with her hand. “He was no true knight,” she whispered to him. The Hound threw back his head and roared. Sansa stumbled back, away from him, but he caught her arm. “No,” he growled at her, “no, little bird, he was no true knight.”

A Game of Thrones- Chapter 29 (George R. R. Martin)

I love how the greatest insult Sansa can think of is "He was no true knight.", and Sandor immediately goes: "That's fair. You're SO right!"

[sare11aa11eras]

Okay to further the argument: Ser Robert Strong/Gregor Clegane is both the worst Kingsguard and the pinnacle of the Kingsguard. He’s assaulted a Princess and murdered three members of the Royal Family (let’s leave aside the fact that the current Royal Family is not the same). He’s a serial killer. He is presented in Book One as the fundamental deconstructed truth of knighthood, the reason why the Hound exists and why Sandor can never be a knight. Gregor is the embodiment of the Lannister army in book 2. But then at the same time, he is the Kingsguard ideal— completely obedient, completely without thought, agency, interest, motivation, or qualm. Ser Gerold Hightower says that the Kingsguard are sworn to defend the king, not judge him. You know who will never judge the king? A brainless zombie. You know who can never object to a king’s order? A brainless zombie. You know who is really good at singlemindedly killing all physical threats?? A SEVEN FOOT TALL BRAINLESS ZOMBIE. Arys Oakheart almost got his charge killed because a hot girl told him to. Criston Cole started a civil war. Jaime Lannister killed the king to save the city. You know who’s not doing any of that? Robert Strong.

Visenya Targaryen had many legacies. Her son, Maegor the Cruel, bears a certain resemblance to Robert Strong, both being massive, strong, brutal, and cruel men with multiple wives, both probably the products of dark magic— which I find fitting because Robert Strong is the final essence of perhaps her most enduring legacy: the institution of the Kingsguard.

[ilustrandocanciondehieloyfuego]

30_Juego de tronos_Eddard VII

Todo sucedió muy deprisa. El Caballero de las Flores pedía a gritos su espada, Ser Gregor derribó de un golpe a su escudero y agarró las riendas de la yegua. El animal olió la sangre y se encabritó. Loras Tyrell consiguió a duras penas mantenerse sobre la silla. Ser Gregor blandió la espada y asestó un golpe salvaje con ambas manos que acertó al muchacho en el pecho y lo derribó. El corcel huyó, y Ser Loras quedó tendido sobre la tierra. Gregor alzó la espada para asestar el golpe definitivo.

  —Déjalo en paz —dijo una voz ronca, al tiempo que una mano de hierro lo apartaba del muchacho.

  La Montaña se giró, mudo de rabia, blandiendo la espada larga en un arco mortífero en el que había puesto su asombrosa fuerza, pero el Perro detuvo el golpe y se lo devolvió, y los dos hermanos pelearon durante lo que pareció una eternidad, mientras los criados ponían a salvo al aturdido Loras Tyrell. Por tres veces vio Ned a Ser Gregor lanzar golpes brutales contra el yelmo de cabeza de perro, y en cambio Sandor no dirigió ni un solo ataque contra la cabeza desprotegida de su hermano.

  La voz del rey puso fin a aquello. La voz del rey y veinte espadas.

[adoriadreams]

I find it difficult to believe that people ship Sansa and Sandor.

She literally like 11 and he a grown man. Not only that, he’s a grown man with a lot of issues. He’s violent and very much unstable. He takes the time to trauma dump on young girl, hurt her and then threaten to kill her if she ever speaks of it. Disgusting.

I don’t care for his sad backstory, yes it’s sad what happen to him but that does not give him the right to lash out on Sansa like that.

He’s literally mental.

[ligawolfcosplayandarts]

⚔️🐕 The Hound 🐕⚔️

Undressed.

Armour .

Armour witch tunic and cape.

Fully geared.

Now comparison between brothers ⚔️🏔️🐕⚔️

I'm so proud of this one.

Brothers comparison came out well. 🐕🐕🐕

[male-22-fan]

They got engaged 4 months ago when the little bird turned 5 he didn't know what his father had done for Lord Eddard Stark but whatever it was he was grateful.

Sandor's father saved Lord Stark's life during the rebellion and he gave him a daughter in gratitude.

Sandor he is 12 years old AND sansa 5 years.

People were afraid of her and they were cruel that's why...she had been afraid but she had swallowedThat had disarmed him and without realizing it he let her into his heart. her tears and smiled sweetly at him - hello sir...-

Gregor is a good older brother who adores his little sister-in-law

[ohmy-zabrak]

I had a dream last night where I was transported into this scene and I laughed (inappropriately) at what the Mountain said. EVERYONE in this scene turned to look at me (most looked horrified)

The dream ended with Tywin studying me longer than anyone else and the Mountain looking...amused 😱

[bastardofharrenhal]

Another thing I love about the books is that so many of the diseases and injuries characters sustain have real life counterparts... tyrion's nose taking a long time to heal the scab and lysa tully likely having bpd and her miscarriages being caused by her botched abortion and Jon's age.... hoster tully's illness being very similar to cancer and greyscale being very similar to FOP and lord rosby's coughing being so similar to lung cancer or tuberculosis. khal drogo's death being caused by an infection and jaime nearly getting sepsis after the loss of his hand and rodrick cassel getting an infection after the altercation with the mountain clans... canonical gout in walder frey and doran martell gregor clegane's gigantism and chronic headaches and sweetrobin's epilepsy tyrion's dwarfism and bran's paralysis... say what u will about grandpa but at least george let's his characters be ill

[chickren]

hiii, could you elaborate on jaime's relationship with tywin in the books? and how tywin's introduction in the show diverges from that? 🥺👉👈

lol because that scene never happens in the books?

because nothing like it really happens in the books?

lmao, because, the first time we see any real sign of tywin and jaime’s relationship it’s tywin saying ‘tyrion, why do you suck while jaime is a god?’

it’s such a disservice to tyrion and cersei to pretend that jaime doesn’t have tywin’s approval, or perhaps even admiration.

unlike that weird season 1 deer scene, in the books tywin doesn’t blame jaime for being in the kingsguard. that’s aerys’s fault as far as tywin knows. after all, if tywin himself couldn’t prevent it, how could jaime? (sure we know better, but tywin doesn’t.)

and do you think tywin isn’t proud of jaime for killing aerys? do you think tywin wasn’t thinking ‘that’s my boy’ after the sack of king’s landing? that shit was right in tywin’s wheelhouse.

and then there’s the one interaction we see between jaime and tywin. jaime walks in knowing what he’s facing with twyin vs tyrion. that’s because jaime has always had tywin’s number in a way cersei and tyrion never did. why? because jaime has seen what tywin is capable of and he doesn’t like it. jaime quite literally takes tyrion’s kidnapping in agot into his own hands because he doesn’t trust tywin to look out for tyrion. as he’s on his way back to king’s landing in asos he thinks about just what he’s actually worth to his father and how much that calculation has taken a hit now that he’s short a hand.

so when tywin asks jaime to give up the kingsguard, does jaime hang his head and scuff his toe like his show counterpart? lmao. this is the difference in privilege between jaime and his siblings. jaime immediately says: noooo. and means it. not only means it, but from that moment starts plotting against tywin and cersei to save tyrion.

we see this reinforced when cersei begs jaime to save her from tywin’s machinations to marry her off again and he’s like, lol, tell that bitch no. to jaime it’s a very simple, very accomplishable thing if you don’t give a shit about tywin’s disapproval.

because jaime’s been walking away from tywin since he was a kid.

the only moment jaime even wavers in that interaction with his dad is when tywin disowns him. lol and that is not about approval. it’s because all jaime wants in the world is love, and up to this point love was a thing that existed exclusively in the realm of his family.

and lest there be any doubt, i ask you, who breaks first? the last real thing jaime hears from his father is a message sent through kevan. a peace offering, in the form of oathkeeper. here it is, son, the valyrian steel i’ve been trying to reclaim for the fam for years. it’s yours. you’re my boy.

and what does jaime do with tywin’s sword? lmao. i ask you. what does jaime do with tywin’s sword?

see, book!jaime’s story with tywin is not about tywin’s disapproval of jaime. it’s about jaime’s disapproval of tywin. it’s embedded in his chapters. it’s embedded in his character. everything about jaime’s latent lust for honor is a repudiation of twyin’s ethos.

he disapproves of tywin’s use of gregor clegane and amory lorch. he disapproves of tywin’s orders to kill aegon and rhaenys. any lack of understanding of tywin’s nature is destroyed by the tysha incident, which appalls jaime.

he isn’t looking for tywin’s approval. all he ever wanted was tywin’s love.

all of this is reinforced in feast. it’s everywhere in jaime’s vigil for tywin as he tries to do his duty but can’t cough up a single tear and even chucks the appearance of grief out the window when his living breathing son, who he definitely feels late breaking affection for, needs him. it’s when he looks around the realm and goes oh shit, this would have been tywin’s problem but now it’s mine and uses tywin’s reputation to accomplish his goals without actually employing tywin’s monstrous ruthlessness.

but mostly we know the whole show concept that jaime’s just always been trying to earn tywin’s approval is bullshit as far as book!jaime is concerned, because we’ve read jaime’s chapters and we know the truth.

it’s joanna’s disapproval that literally haunts jaime. not tywin’s.

[omgellendean]

Some ASoIaF (main books) child-killers and how they feel about their crimes:

Tywin Lannister: 1 (plus however many Reyne-Tarbeck kids there were). Would quote Sun Tzu at you if he could.

Roose Bolton: 1 that we know about. Just another Tuesday for him.

Petyr Baelish: 1 WIP. You won't prove anything.

Gregor Clegane: 2 that we know about. Just another Tuesday for him.

Theon Greyjoy: 2, but not the ones everyone thinks; 1 threat. Pretended not to care but actually feels bad, currently a bit distracted by the horrors.

Olenna Tyrell: 1. He had bad vibes.

Sandor Clegane: 1 that we know about. Had to be repeatedly called out and retraumatised to notice people tend to get upset by murders. Still dgaf about Mycah personally.

Jaime Lannister: 2 failed attempts, 2 threats. Technically shouldn't even be on the list unless we include a half of Westeros, but everyone thinks he belongs here. Jaime agrees.

Cersei Lannister: ~20. Fuck them kids.

[stromuprisahat]

It all happened so fast. The Knight of Flowers was shouting for his own sword as Ser Gregor knocked his squire aside and made a grab for the reins of his horse. The mare scented blood and reared. Loras Tyrell kept his seat, but barely. Ser Gregor swung his sword, a savage two-handed blow that took the boy in the chest and knocked him from the saddle. The courser dashed away in panic as Ser Loras lay stunned in the dirt. But as Gregor lifted his sword for the killing blow, a rasping voice warned, “Leave him be,” and a steel-clad hand wrenched him away from the boy. The Mountain pivoted in wordless fury, swinging his longsword in a killing arc with all his massive strength behind it, but the Hound caught the blow and turned it, and for what seemed an eternity the two brothers stood hammering at each other as a dazed Loras Tyrell was helped to safety. Thrice Ned saw Ser Gregor aim savage blows at the hound’s-head helmet, yet not once did Sandor send a cut at his brother’s unprotected face. It was the king’s voice that put an end to it … the king’s voice and twenty swords. Jon Arryn had told them that a commander needs a good battlefield voice, and Robert had proved the truth of that on the Trident. He used that voice now. “STOP THIS MADNESS,” he boomed, “IN THE NAME OF YOUR KING!” The Hound went to one knee. Ser Gregor’s blow cut air, and at last he came to his senses. He dropped his sword and glared at Robert, surrounded by his Kingsguard and a dozen other knights and guardsmen. Wordlessly, he turned and strode off, shoving past Barristan Selmy. “Let him go,” Robert said, and as quickly as that, it was over.

A Game of Thrones- Chapter 30 (George R. R. Martin)

A few moments later Ser Loras Tyrell walked back onto the field in a simple linen doublet and said to Sandor Clegane, “I owe you my life. The day is yours, ser.” “I am no ser,” the Hound replied, but he took the victory, and the champion’s purse, and, for perhaps the first time in his life, the love of the commons. They cheered him as he left the lists to return to his pavilion.

I love him Your Honour!

[jedimaesteryoda]

Gregor Clegane, the Mountain that Rides, stands out as being as much a symbol of House Lannister as the lion. His sobriquet fits given the Lannister seat itself is built into a mountain, and he is Casterly Rock's policy in action.

He is the image of a giant as a quite large, powerful man who is to borrow from Sandor "a sword without a ribbon," or wearing no decoration with plain armor, he is simply a brute who does not believe in chivalry, but sees power as something to be abused and used to dominate the weak as shown in the way he brutalizes the smallfolk. He murders, robs and rapes, taking whatever he wants, and even tried to kill his opponent at a tourney over his loss. There is no thought to defending the weak or anything related to the Good Society, but he epitomizes the idea of might makes right.

There is naught but stone at the heart of Casterly Rock.

He breaks almost every taboo up to and including kinslaying, and has no care for the laws of gods and men to the point that he only holds back if he knows it is in his own self-interest. You could see the resentment as he "glared at Robert," for commanding him to end the fight with Sandor, but did as commanded and not retaliate because he saw Robert was "surrounded by his Kingsguard and a dozen other knights and guardsmen."

He acts with no regard for anyone as he did not even spare any concern for the wife and child of the man who knighted him when he killed Aegon and then rape-murdered Elia. He'll even kill his opponent in a tourney, and he burned Sandor's face for playing with his toy even though he didn't want it, simply because he could.

That makes him the perfect tool for House Lannister as Tywin uses him to do all his dirty work from murdering a babe to his chevauchee of the riverlands. As Gregor raiding the riverlands in the first book without any banners demonstrates, he does all the things Tywin would never do himself to keep his hands clean at a distance and preserve his image. Cersei resurrected him to be her tool for enacting violence just as Tywin did before her.

Gregor is essentially the rotten heart beating at the center of Casterly Rock, the Lannister modus operandi without the glamorous, gilded surface. He is who the Lannisters are in actuality, not the noble knights in shining armor but brute thugs who use violence and intimidation to take what they want, social norms and laws of the gods be damned.

[fantasynovel]

i feel like someone at some point must have made a really smart analysis on the different methods of murder in asoiaf. i'm thinking about poison rn. it's frowned upon in westeros bc it's seen as a cowardly and womanlike way to kill somebody. "I have heard it said that poison is a woman's weapon" etc. and yet there is so much poisoning going on in these books. jon arryn is poisoned, joffrey is poisoned. maester cressen is poisoned by the cup intended for melisandre. poisoning is the opposite of a "manly" confrontational killing that westeros reveres. i'm thinking about who uses poisons mainly, and it really is women for the most part. olenna tyrell, lysa arryn (with littlefinger's encouragement), arya. it's usually the tool of somebody who cannot fight in armed combat (though not always. oberyn martell poisons gregor clegane during armed combat). in a land where the crux of power is violence, poison undermines. it can be slipped anywhere, or hidden anywhere: not just in wine and food, but in a hairnet or ointment. it moves silently, and it kills from the inside. and if poison is womanlike, then to be killed by it is to be unmanned. you have been felled by someone who, for whatever reason, could not best you in a fight, or challenge you directly. the poisoner and the poisoned both come away tainted.

[queen-helaenas-pet-spider]

Post Ned's Execution Sansa wearing the same pretty green dress that she wore at the Hand's Tourney in hopes that seeing her in it will magically make Joffrey "fall in love with her again" and stop being a dick.

But the only person that truly fell in love with Sansa while she was wearing that pretty green Hand's Tourney dress was :

S A N D O R ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

{Technically, he loved he when he first saw her, but her comforting him and then oh so politely telling him that Gregor *Sandor's older brother who's about a BILLION times worse than Sandor and most of the villains in the series* ain't nothing but a B-I-T-C-H was what really cemented his love for her!}

[bloodyrook]

I don't think george will ever finish those books, but if he does I hope he doesn't go down the show route of making rhaegar and lyanna a lovestory. I don't think he will because the whole thing with rhaegar is the prophecy and george is very much painting this prophecy and the pusuit of fulfilling it as a bad thing.

The show wanted rhaegar to be a good guy so bad but like this is the man who knighted gregor clegane, and sent the 7 kingdoms into war when he kidnapped, or ran off with a 16 year old. Like the Targaryens and aegon's dream all that bullshit they're not supposed to be good guys. They're interesting and thats why I like the Targaryen's but they are very much in the wrong pretty much all the time.

Lyanna begging her brother to protect her innocent child and her and rhaegar being in "love" are not one in the same.

People who ship rhaegar with anyone are just falling for the bullshit because he's described as handsome. I am team lyanna and elia and their children.

Idk why people want lovestories here asoiaf is about the horrors.