Is Samwell Tarly Narrating Game of Thrones? FAN THEORY (SPOILERS)

Gonna keep it short but essentially …
Do you think that Sam being the narrator theory is becoming more valid as one of the questions ive always has is 'how does he know about all these events if he wasnt there?' … well what if he paired up with the living embodiment of the internet … Bran.

So the theory is way more viable in the way that what if in the interest of recording history he asks Bran to tell him everything important and scribes for him.
(plus some of that earlier hinting with the arch master in naming the history something more poetic?)

TL;DR
Sam is the narrator and scribes history while Bran tells him all the important stuff that happened through his powers

What if it's a weirwood tree that's telling the story. That's why you can see all sides of the story!

I believe that Bran ill help him. Think about the "Chaos is a ladder" scene, Bran have seen everything while Sam haven't so I believe that they will help eachother and that the whole series is actually from Brans pov.

“What, you don’t like the title? What would you call it then?”
“Possibly something a bit more poetic?”
“We’re not poets, Tarly.”
"I know… I shall call you 'A Song of Ice and Fire'."

Interesting thought bran aka 3 eyed raven said he can see everything from everyone. Will Sam meet bran in the future to get all the perspectives of all the main players in story? Just an interesting thought.

i dont like the background music, not one bit

Game of Thrones cant end like that. This ending would be disappointing

i think that the show tells the real story and Sam writes the "song of ice and fire" adding more storylines ex.lady stoneheart ecc…

I think this theory is spot on,..In S7 E1, the Archmaester tells Sam that the Maesters are the memory of the world..Moreover, esp. after S7 E2 where Sam suggests that the Archmaester`s book`s title should be more poetic..!! "A Song of Ice and Fire" seem poetic enough..???

so do you expect the series to end in a time jump forward to the new equilibrium of Westeros after the dust of all thiss wars has settled ?

I thought this bout sam

Sam is one of the best characters in this series.

I can definitely see him writing about what happened but the story itself being a retelling from Sam is a bit of a stretch plus the humanization of Jamie and Tyrone goes against much of the idea of the theory

It's not impossible. In Tolkien's legendarium, it was Bilbo's journal that was basically the narrative story that told the story of LOTR.

couldn't it be a vision that bran had when he was very young?

Too Tolkien-ish.

I do think this one would be cool. Like if at the end of the show this whole story that we've been following ends up being a book in the grand library. Like the story ends and the book gets closed and it goes on the shelf as one of the many books.

Samwise .. um.. I mean, Sam Tarly as narrator. What other story does that make me think of? 😉

What if narrator is not Sam but Gilly's son, also Sam.

While it would be interesting I don't think Sam is the narrator. There are too many insights into dreams, thoughts, secret encounters, events in distant places, and plots that Sam couldn't possibly know to be able to recount them in such detail. I think the story is for the entertainment and benefit of the reader and not some part of a fourth wall break. As someone wrote below, the only person who has shown the ability to KNOW all the things narrated to us is Bran.

I think its little Sam narrating the story.

if that is true then it sounds like a lord of the rings ending

What color are Craster's eyes in the show? Gilly's eyes are brown at 4:30, and baby Sam has VERY blue eyes. Craster's genes would probably be fairly prominent in his children due to his … living arrangement, so I'd assume he'd have brown eyes too. That means both of baby Sam's parents have brown eyes and his are almost as blue as those of a white walker. Nothing on the show is an accident, and the difference is Stark if you look at the frame. Has TLH or anyone else ever seen this, or are there any theories about something being up with baby Sam?

It's an interesting theory but I don't believe it's true.
The books are written as POV chapters. We get to know what characters are thinking which just doesn't make any sense if it's Sam writing it. How would he know the thoughts and feelings of all the characters that died and never told anyone else?
ASOIAF doesn't feel like it was written by Sam. For example we know how Sam feels about the topic of sex, he can't even talk about it without feeling embarrassed. Yet sex scenes are written in great detail even from women's perspectives. I highly doubt that this is the work of Sam.

Stephen King always has characters who are writers in his stories. They always seem to be a hero-type or at least very important. He even put himself into The Dark Tower series. What if Samwell was George Martin's way of putting himself into his own story?

I love this theory! This might be the one I'd like to be true above all others. Probably because Sam has so many parallels to GRRM and he's just such a likeable character in the series.

This is a cool idea I'm sure most of us have heard before, but with the way the series is written it's pretty much impossible for Sam to be the narrator of ASOIAF. All of these chapters are written in POV form, which give us access to characters' thoughts and memories – how would Sam know any of it, especially for the dead POV characters? For example there's no way Sam would know of Cat's childhood memories, or Hoster's "tansy" rants, or the details of Cat's private meetings with Robb.

The list of impossible-to-know details is endless but the point is the only way Sam could be the narrator of ASOIAF is if he made most of it up. There are far too many minor details, memories, and secrets divulged within ASOIAF for the 'narrator' to be a character in the story…

he would have to meet all the people who's pov the chapters are about. since some are dead before he can meet them it's impossible

I think GRRM may hate you for cracking his code. These theories have a lot of substance and validity

Imagine if all this ends with the White Walkers creating a post-apocalyptic zombie scenario which would make a spin-off series, that would surely piss off quite a few.

WRONG! Its Morgan Freeman.

What if Sam isn't thr narrator but Tyler Durden?

I put some hints in my channel about this theory, like several months ago…

I really like this theory

Maybe baby Sam is the narrator.

I don't know how literally the "narrator" he could be as it is a bit odd how he would know some of the conversations and things that happened with other characters but I like the Idea in some way and I'm pretty sure Sam is kind of based on GRRM himself and he wrote himself into the story.

What if the last chapter is
"This is my end, the long night will devour us all. the people who I hold dear are fallen and die… this is my time. No one can stop this madness. this book soon will be an artifact beneath the ruin of citadel'
Samwell Tarly

The narrator is Hodor

Abraham=Tormont Giantsbane

Sams son

In my eyes ASOIAF doesn't really have a single narrator because it's a song, i.e. the medieval way of telling stories. Maybe someone wrote it down, but it's something to be sung, not to be written.

I've had the following theory for a long time now: We, the readers or viewers, are not the addressees of the story. The actual addressees are the people inside the storyworld, living quite some time after the events we are watching/reading about. Those who survived…
They are listening to legendary songs of heros of the ancient times like people in our world did and do to the Nibelungs (Nibelungenlied). And because it's legendary material, it justifies the existance of magic, dragons, and so on…

And because history (and legendary history, too) is always written by the winners, Jon Snow is the hero, the leader too good to be true. Because of the bias you mentioned. I think this perspective is pretty clear evidence, that he ist going to be on the winning side at the end.

And by the way: I think that GRRM sees himself in Sam or created Sam kind of representing himself. Big guy with books, anyone?

What do you think?
BTW, love your videos

I've been stating this theory for at least two years now….

yeap, i want to see the old aging sam played by George RR Martin 🙂

I can't see this, if Sam was the one telling the story, and we're assuming a World of Fire and Ice style thing, then why do we have POV chapters? Does Sam also connect to the tree-net?

Pod is telling the story lel

Why did they decide to stuff the rest of the show into just 14 episodes again?

I feel the same way … you hit the nail on the head with this video … I've mentioned this a few times in different comments on other videos … even if it isn't true I love the thought 👍

Its even possible that Sam's older version we see at the end of S8 is actually George RR Martin.. similarities?

"There and back Again"
-By Sam Baggins

I agree. Is that the same reason Sam is chubbier and if you put beard and aging effect he more looks like George RR Martin.