Opening post by Priya Chen · #1
Half the hall has an opinion here and the other half pretends not to. I would rather hear from both.
Strip the songs away and it comes to this: what Rhaegar was doing at the Tower of Joy. I think we have been asking the wrong question for a hundred years.
There is a version of this where the truth is dull — a bad decision, a bad winter, nobody's grand design — and I have never once heard anybody argue for it.
I expect to die not knowing, and I have made my peace with it.