Original, no spoilers.
After a year of waiting, Game of Thrones finally returned last Sunday! In the first episode we had a heavyweight cameo: Ed Sheeran, the famous singer-songwriter, along with several other musicians (including Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody, Sigur Rós and Mastodon), played a group of people in the woods. Resting Lannister soldiers.
George RR Martin, author of the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series, wrote many popular (?) lyrics in the book, including the familiar "The Rains of Castamere" and "The Girl and the The Bear and the Maiden Fair. This song by Ed Sheeran also comes from the novel. But what's the point of it?
In fact, the song in the book was written by a singer named Symon Silver Tongue, titled Hands of Gold, singing Tyrion Lannister. The lyrics are as follows:
He rode through the streets of the city,
Down from his hill on high,
O'er the wynds and the steps and the cobbles,
He rode to a woman's sigh.
For she was his secret treasure,
She was his shame and his bliss.
And a chain and a keep are nothing,
Compared to a woman's kiss
For hands of gold are always cold,
But a woman's hands are warm.
(rough translation:
He walked through the streets of the city,
come down from his high mountains,
Through alleys, steps and pebbles,
Come to a woman's sigh.
Because she is his secret treasure,
She is his shame and happiness.
Necklaces and castles are nothing
than a woman's kiss.
For golden hands are always cold,
The woman's hand is warm. )
In the second book of the series, A Clash of Kings, Tyrion travels to King's Landing to become Prime Minister on behalf of his father, Duke Tywin. Duke Tyrion had forbidden him to bring any prostitutes to the capital, but Tyrion took Shae and arranged for her to live on the outskirts of the city. One day, when Tyrion went to visit Shae, he found a singer there, Symon Silver Tongue.
Symon immediately stated that he recognized Tyrion, calling him "My Lord Hand". Tyrion worries that Symon will leak, and Shae promises he won't.
Later, in the third book "A Storm of Ice", Symon tries to threaten Tyrion by requesting to participate in the singer competition at the royal wedding (i.e., the Purple Wedding), otherwise he will inform Lord Tyrion and Cersei of Shae's existence. He even wrote it into a song, Hands of Gold sung by Ed Sheeran in S7E01.
Tyrion immediately ordered Bronn to deal with Symon Silver Tongue, but the song lingered. Like the relationship between Tyrion and Shae, the song changed afterward. At the end of A Storm of Thunder, when Shae gives false testimony in court and Tyrion is in jail waiting for Oberon Martell to do a trial by battle (or just die) on his behalf, he runs out of wine , threw down the glass and sang the song by Symon himself.
And later, when Tyrion was on the run and strangled Shae with the chain of Prime Minister that belonged to his father at the time, he uttered the lyrics of the song: "For hands of gold are always cold, but a woman's hands are warm. "
However, since the song is about Tyrion and Shae, why didn't it appear in the third season, but appeared in the seventh season?
In fact, the song can also point to the Valonqar theory that is very popular among Game of Thrones fans, the prophecy made by Maggy the Frog, a witch in the woods during Cersei's childhood:
And when your tears have drowned you, the valonqar shall wrap his hands about your pale white throat and choke the life from you.
The word Valonqar is High Valyrian, which means younger brother. Maggy's prophecy says that when Cersei is drowned in tears, her brother will reach out and strangle her. Cersei had spent his whole life thinking that Tyrion would kill him. However, depending on where the novel and the series go, it's much more likely that valonqar is referring to Jaime here. (Also see Cersei "Mad Queen" theory)
And Jaime's situation is basically in line with the lyrics of the song: Cersei is his shame and happiness. "Necklaces and castles are nothing": Jaime has almost no pursuits of his own in his life, and only wants to stay by Cersei's side (he became King's Guard at fifteen to accompany Cersei, and this reckless decision also angered Duke Tywin: he lost his heir). And now, Jaime also has a cold hand made of gold.
A Storm of Ice describes Shae's death this way:
He gave the cold hands another twist as the warm ones beat away his tears.
"As the warm [hands] beat away his tears."
It can almost also be seen as describing the scene where Jaime kills Cersei.
Looking forward to the remaining two seasons.
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