| Re: Why say Tyrion's a Targ?
So, Azor Ahai reborn must have an alliteration in his/her name? NUTS! go fish out anoter one. (However, playing by your suggestion, "Daenerys Targaryen" is almost an alliteration, if youconsider that a "d" is just a voiced "t")
I do wish GRRM had included more High Valyrian and other language vocabularies in the series. Interesting was the translation into Bulgarian (???) for the character Orell, aka "Orell the Eagle," which sunds like the Bulgarian word for "eagle," orel. I read that today, but GRRM said it was a coincidence. I wish it had been purposeful. That would make the characters' names more fun. I suppose we've got sigils for that sot of thing though.
Tyrion is great for his name (and his own brand of "charm"), reminding us of a little tyrant. Like Auntie Frey suggests, he's the next Lord Tywin. Also, the Starks were traditionlly very stark. Other than that, I'm not sure important the meanings & connotations of names are in this series, except maybe with reference to other characters (eg. Bran aspring to be the other Brans in his Stark heritage).
I do not believe Tyrion is a Targ, but that's an interesting theory about him being AAreborn. He likes the wall; he's a bitter little man, having beenscrewed over so many times; we now see him eager to outright use people against their desire (his chapter from aDwD) to feel powerful....
No, not enough solid food there. I think that's a dead train of thoght, too. |