Showing posts with label Hodor. Show all posts
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Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Game of Thrones fan predicted the meaning of Hodor"s name EIGHT YEARS ago


Hold the Door - Bran Wargs into Hodor (Full Scene) Game of Thrones Season 6

One genius Game of Thrones fan predicted the meaning of Hodor"s name in 2008, three years before the show even started.

Sunday"s episode revealed the giant"s backstory in a time-warping twist that left viewers" minds blown.

But one disciple, who read George R.R. Martin"s books before the world-famous TV series expanded upon them, was unsurprised.

Sunday"s episode revealed the giant"s backstory in a time-warping twist that left viewers" minds blown

One genius Game of Thrones fan predicted the meaning of Hodor"s name in 2008, three years before the show even started

Eight years ago, budding author Stuart Etter from Orlando, Florida predicted that Hodor is an abbreviation of hold the door.

Under the name Myrddin, he wrote on fan site westeros.com: "The poor guy is just asking someone to hold the door for him, since he"s always carrying someone else around. After a while, "Hold the door" became "Hold the doorHold the doorHoldoorHodoor. Dammit! Hold the door!" His mind finally snapped, and now all he can say is Hodor."

Episode five shows a young Wylis being warged into by Bran Stark and having a seizure while repeating the phrase "hold the door" which merges to become "Hodor".

Simultaneously, present-day Hodor is holding back the White Walkers while shouting the same phrase.

Mr Etter said thatseeinghisprophesycome true was surreal and that it was odd when somebody sent him a link to his 2008 post before he watched the episode.

He told Newsweek:"I remembered writing it, but honestly I haven"t thought about it much since. So, when I watched the episode later that night, it did hit me right before it happened: "Hold the door."

Eight years ago, budding author Stuart Etter from Orlando, Florida predicted that Hodor is an abbreviation of hold the door

"It"s even more surreal that someone on Reddit was able to find my eight-year-old post buried within an archived thread on a fansite. I"m just glad there are no videos of me doing something stupid floating around," Mr Etter jested.

Mr Etter said he was able to make the prediction because he"s a writer who likes puzzles and wordplay.

"When the question was posed on the forum "What does Hodor mean?" I saw the words hidden within the name," he said.

One disciple, who read George R.R. Martin"s books before the world-famous TV series expanded upon them, was unsurprised by the revelation

Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3606792/Game-Thrones-spoiler-alert-EIGHT-YEARS-ago-Fan-predicted-meaning-Hodor-s-2008-three-years-started.html

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In Which Hodor"s Emotional "Game Of Thrones" Scene Gets The Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Treatment


After the Thrones 05: Hodor

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Okay, cool, heres what happened: I took that emotional, heart-wrenching ending of last nights episode of Game of Thrones which finally explained why Hodor could only say Hodor (short version: Brans fault) and also showed him dying a heroic death (spoiler alert: also Brans fault) and I stripped all the audio and replaced it with the song Tha Crossroads, by Bone Thugs-n-Harmony. Thats what this is. Thats what going on here. Its silly and dumb but I feel kind of okay about it, all things considered.

The truth is that I spent a solid 20 to 30 minutes trying to settle on a song to use. Other contenders included Hero by Mariah Carey, Its So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday by Boyz II Men, and One Sweet Day by Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men, but I settled on Tha Crossroads because it felt right, even if I already used Tha Crossroads for at least one other very notable television death. I just really like using Tha Crossroads in these situations, okay? Also, I stopped listening to music in like 1999 apparently, so I had a limited set of options to choose from.

So, to recap: Heres a thing I did. Try replacing various words of the song with Hodor when you sing along. Or all of them, if you want. We all grieve in our own way.

Source: http://uproxx.com/tv/game-of-thrones-hodor-tha-crossroads/

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