22. Túrin&Niënor vs. Jon Snow&Daenerys
(I mean just look at these fanarts).
Ok, for those who don’t know who Túrin and Niënor is, long story short:
Children of Húrin is the most depressing thing Tolkien ever wrote. The Dark Lord Morgoth curses Húrin and his family to a dramatic doom. Túrin is doomed from the beginning in everything he does. He is forced to leave his home before his sister is born so he never knew her. Later on, his mother and sister, Niënor, left their home to look after him. Niënor is bewitched by an evil dragon to forget everything. And so, the amnesiac Niënor comes across Túrin. Unaware of their blood relation, they fall in love, get married and concieve a child. When the dragon lifts the spell and Niënor realized that she committed incest, she casts herself in a waterfall. When Túrin learns the truth as well, he kills himself by throwing himself into his sword.
Their descriptions are striking as well.
Húrin is the head of the House of Hador, whose members typically have blonde hair and blue eyes. Túrin has an unusual appearance: he has dark hair and gray eyes, inherited from his mother, who belong to the House of Bëor. Niënor, however, has golden hair and blue eyes, iherited from her father.
Jon, as we know, took Starks’ dark hair and gray eyes from his mother, Lyanna.
While Rhaella most likely had Targaryen features as well, only Aerys’s physical description is given, which is similar to Dany’s: silver-gold hair, purple eyes.
As I discussed here, Jon and Dany is forshadow and will happen in the books. The series is called A Song of Ice and Fire after all.
But what won’t happen in the books is the tragic story of Túrin and Niënor. I strongly believe GRRM (who admitted that he read Silmarillion) wrote/will write Jon and Dany as an AU where “Túrin” and “Niënor” defeat the evil together and live.
First of all, incest is not a problem for GRRM. And while it is forbidden among the Westerosi families, it won’t be a problem for these two characters.
Dany has always expected to marry her brother Viserys. When she and Jon will eventually meet, they will be two people from different parts of the world who will meet each other for the first time. Also, aunt and nephew is far far far less worse than brother and sister.
Or, if one of both of them will die (THOUGH I’D HATE GRRM FOREVER IF HE WILL HAVE DANY DYING IN CHILDBIRH) their child will live and will play a crucial part in the War of the Dawn. Dany is constantly referred as “Mother” (“mother of dragons”, “mhysa”) so I strongly believe that her arc will include becoming a mother. She also dreams of her husband, a young man whose face she cannot see. She also dreams herself as Rhaegar, during the Battle at the Trident, only that she rides a dragon and fights the Others.
These instances forshadow the role Dany will play in the War of the Dawn.
She will end up with Jon, wether for a short time or not, but unlike Túrin and Niënor, they will live enough to defeat the evil, instead of letting themselves killed by it.
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