Editor’s Note: Earlier this year, he shared with us his unique Scientific Wild-Ass Guess (aka SWAG) on the possible publication date of The Winds of Winter. Now he returns to Watchers on the Wall to invite us to take part in an interesting ASOIAF fandom project. Please welcome an old friend of the site, BryndenBFish! – Sue the Fury
Hello, Watchers on the Wall! Long time, no see. Missed you all. How’s 2015 going? 2016 (and winter) is coming. We all hope for the Son of Kong (that’s The Winds of Winter to those uninitiated in GRRM-speak) and eagerly anticipate the return of Game of Thrones, but in the meantime, we have theories to keep us sated. One of the things I did in 2014 was to determine the popularity of certain theories among 3 separate fandoms (the ASOIAF subreddit, Westeros.org & ASOIAF University). I’d like to do that again this year, but I’m expanding.
This year, I am doing a 5-site cross survey of the A Song of Ice and Fire fandom surveying the following fandoms:
My intent in polling these various fandoms is to find congruence and disparity among the many A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones fandoms. The data will then be analyzed to look at trends, variance and congruence on the various fan-theories on A Song of Ice and Fire. But in my haste to create polls and posts, I neglected one big fandom — you all! Sue the Fury was kind enough to invite me to post a survey specific to Watchers on the Wall readers over to you all.
A word of warning: This survey is intended for those who have read all 5 published books in George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series as well as the Dunk and Egg novellas, the Princess and the Queen and The Rogue Prince, The World of Ice and Fire and finally The Winds of Winter sample chapters. If you’re not comfortable with this, no harm, no foul if you choose not to participate in the survey. However, if you’re comfortable with these parameters, then this survey’s for you. For that matter, none of the questions presented are mandatory – meaning you can skip questions if you’re completely unfamiliar with the theory.
If you want to know more about the theories presented in the survey or see ideas that you’d like to be refreshed on, I’ve created several theory resources to provide information and fan-defenses of the theories on Reddit:
For your enjoyment- last year’s results:
This will be the first of two surveys coming your way. I split up the survey as the number of theories I was trying to put together was rather daunting, and I figured that I (and hopefully by extension: you) enjoy a smaller survey split by topic.
All good? Alright, here’s your survey, Watchers on the Wall! Tell me what you think!
BryndenBFish is the creator of the Wars and Politics of Ice and Fire Blog a blog and podcast dedicated to political and military analysis of A Song of Ice and Fire. He can be found at twitter as @BryndenBFish.
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