Ep. 201: - Jon VII | A Storm of Swords

Bend the Knee: A Song of Ice and Fire Podcast

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🗓️ 25 May 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Donal Noye and Jon have done the best they could to fortify Castle Black from the impending attack of Styr and his raiders. The castles along the Wall were designed defenseless, as the Night's Watch was not meant to be able to repel a force from the South. Castle Black was meant specifically to be protected from wildlings by the Wall itself. When Styr, the Magnar of the Thenns, and his men attack, many of the defenders die, while Jon and Satin fire arrows from one of the roofs. At one point, Jon has Ygritte in his sights but he cannot loose an arrow at her.

Finally Donal Noye fires the powder kegs he had placed along the lower staircase of the Wall. The Magnar and the rest of his men perish as the staircase and a section of ice from the Wall crushes them. Amidst the destruction, Jon finds Ygritte, shot through the chest with a crossbow by someone else, and the woman he loved dies in his arms.

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The United States.
0:09.0	The Hello and welcome to Ben the Knee, a song of ice and fire podcast.
0:29.9	I am Sir Matt.
0:31.6	And I'm Sir Jimmy of House Notes.
0:32.8	Welcome to our song of ice and fire book club.
0:34.4	Today we're in the John 7 of a storm of swords this uh this chapter is
0:40.1	touched by fire when you say man this is a tough chapter man we've been having them back to back
0:45.1	you kind of forget about john a little bit right because he's up there in the north and this is one of
0:50.0	those things where man sometimes the pov read is better because if you read if you're just
0:54.5	reading john's chapter it's like it's like a race right i mean everything's happening you're racing
0:58.7	you're racing and then it just you jump right into this but at the same time man george had to fill
1:02.7	out the red wedding and we had to go take a tip to davis like pacing it's it's one of the things
1:07.7	in the series where it's oh man you're just jumping around so much.
1:15.7	Yeah, for a huge book, this book always seems to fly by whenever I'm reading it. Normally, obviously, we do a chapter a week.
1:18.4	So it takes a less a little, just a smidge longer to get through it.
1:21.4	But whenever you're reading it like any other book, that page count, for me at least,
1:26.5	always feels like it's a lot smaller than it is and yeah john john
1:29.7	a little bit forgotten but we are back with him and it is his turn to learn about tragedy and duty
1:36.5	and love and all of the things george loves to talk about in his stories and put his characters
1:42.2	through yeah absolutely and uh we'll get to talk a little
1:45.6	about the show today too because kind of a big kind of a small change in terms of what the way they
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