Was renly gay in the books
August 13, 2014, 10:49 PM
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Difference Between Manual And Show #2
In my second entry into this series of posts i chose to focus on two characters linked together. 1 who was pretty similar from books to exhibit and another who is extremely different.
So lets talk about King Renly Baratheon
Renly is the younger brother of Robert and Stannis and the son of Lord Steffon Baratheon. Renly is handsome charimsatic and friendly. He easily attracts friends and wins peoples loyalty. Renly is essentially a younger more attractive less douchebag version of robert though not as badass. Renly loves hunting and tourneys and fashion. After Stannis Baratheon fails to deal with prince Viserys and Daenerys at dragonstone Renly is named lord of storms end the ancestral home of storms end largely to spite stannis which he never forgot. When Renly turned 16 he decided to commute around the region under his governance he eventually went to The Sapphire Iles home to house Tarth. Lord Selwyn Tarth held a ball to find his daughter brienne a husband the boys in attending danced with brienne and flirted with her but they were playing a game w
Are Loras and Renly Gay?
Throughout the series, the reader is given an outside look at the relationship between Renly Baratheon and Loras Tyrell. While, at first glance, it seems that it is nothing but innocuous friendship, there are some clues to suggest that their love for each other goes beyond mere companionship. In fact, it seems likely that the two men may be gay lovers. The evidence comes only in little bits and pieces, but, when pieced together, paints an absorbing picture.
I. THOUGHTS ON RENLY
Lots of rumors seems to circulate around Westeros concerning Renly. Let�s accept a look at a few.
1) Margaery�s Maidenhood
Renly�s own brother seems to doubt his sexuality. From CoK, pg. 478, a conversation between Renly and Stannis:
�...I got Margaery. You�ll be pleased to know she came to me a maid.�
�In your bed she�s like to die that way.�
This could be mindless sibling playfulness, but Stannis seems like an honest man, and his words imply that Renly is less than infatuated with women. Mace Tyrell swears the Margaery is still a virigin when she marries Joffrey, so it appears that Stannis was correct in this.
2) Renly�s Servants
Tyrion hires some of Renl
Fans are up in arms about HBO’s treatment of a side character on 'Game of Thrones'
Warning: There are spoilers ahead if you are not caught up with "Game of Thrones."
It's no confidential "Game of Thrones" deviated many times from the communicate in season five. We've seen this with Sansa's character and the expansion of a fan favorite on screen. But there's one change from the write which has increasingly muddled fans of the beloved book series this season.
Ser Loras Tyrell, the brother of Margaery and a well-liked side character in "Game of Thrones," has been increasingly reduced to a caricature of homosexuality — and no one is sure why.
Loras was very subtly alluded to as being gay in the book series, but it was so quietly done that George R.R. Martin had to confirm the speculation. On the HBO adaptation, Loras' homosexuality is his most obvious trait.
In season five episode four, we saw the Faith Militant, a military branch of the Faith of the Seven, exercise their recently granted power by aggressively stamping out “sinful” behavior. They concluded their raid on King’s Landing with the arrest of Ser Loras, on charges of “perversion” in the form of homosexual