Heroes of Lore and Legend: Knight of the Laughing Tree (ASOIAF)

A brief history of the Knight of the Laughing Tree, exploring the mysterious hero who competed for a single day in the Tourney of Harrenhal before vanishing forever. Based on the series A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin.
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[@coreybrown7375]

CivilizationEx Love the videos you guys do, informative and fun to watch. Gotta ask though, u guys do so many great franchises and series, you’ve done all the big fantasies it seems except Harry Potter, what’s up with that?

[@CivilizationEx]

Correction: Dorne should be red like the rest of the Seven Kingdoms, as it was part of the realm at this time.

[@Joggi98]

Last time I was this early, Aerys still sat the Iron Throne

[@shawn5346]

You beat me by 51 minutes, mayhaps I'm the Late Lord Frey

[@danielmontilla1197]

I finished ASOIAF a long time ago, but your videos about it's wonderful lore are giving me a feeling of nostalgia for that fictional world I came to love so much! thanks for the upload

[@Hotdiggity11]

Definitely not the Stark brothers since the knight was supposedly small in stature and, of course, they were hardly small guys by this time as they were in their upper teens and built like warriors (Especially Brandon). Lyanna would make the most sense.

[@panos617]

Amazing!!! That's why when i was kid dreamed to be Knight.

[@shaneoconnell9279]

Blount, Moore and Frey, ever stand up houses

[@yushirohmurasakih358]

Lyanna is badass 👌

[@jeffreygao3956]

The best candidate for the Knight of the Laughing Tree is either Lyanna or Ned Stark.

[@SHARKVADERS]

CivEx!!!

[@cryptox826]

Just finished ASOIAF Now my wait begins 😂

[@QueenDaenerysTargaryen]

Can't wait for Winds of Winter❄⛄ 🔥🔥🐉🐉🐉🔥🔥

[@napolien1310]

Actually Dorne is part of the seven kingdoms, I don't know why you colored it differently

[@byzantineboi8345]

It was an editing mistake

[@brandonfennellusa]

Welcome to the Brolatariote comrade

[@andrewcalean7992]

All hail the Night king

[@bvthebalkananarchistmapper5642]

This story feels so familiar... Did AltShiftX make a video on the same topic by any chance? Or is it my brain remembering something that never existed on KZbin?

[@yourname2557]

The Mandela Effect

[@azarishere6442]

I like to day dream about this channel making videos about my world lol

[@Brandonhayhew]

It was totally Lyanna Stark, because it be kinda like Arya Stark, who murderers people just for revenge.

[@lancegraham2975]

Pls do more videos on middle earth

[@l0necroc]

Rip GOT s1-3

[@Cecil_Harvey]

Definitely Ned

[@jademonolith]

It was Bran Stark - short of stature and wearing mismatched armor - traveling to the past from a still unwritten future.

[@LuizFernando-cu2xy]

We’re never gonna find out who was this knight, will we?

[@newbiechu7024]

Not unless Fake Tolkien finished his book and stop lying about its release date.

[@Ia32627]

Officially, maybe not unless George makes another Fire and Blood type book after the end of the series...if he finishes. Though I'm pretty sure the timeline fits to make it Lyanna Stark. If I recall, Aerys tasks Rhaegar to find the Laughing Tree and if it was Lyanna it would have given them a chance to meet alone and become enamored with each other.

[@williamst.romain7393]

I've never posted a comment on any of your videos as best as I can remember, but you are one of the first I ever watched when I became interested in Game of Thrones. Check out my website: www.speculations-asoiaf.com/

[@ErnestoCifer]

second comment

[@g.vulgar7049]

Strong Belwas thinks that show was such crap.

[@snorgonofborkkad]

GoT is so boring. The entire story uses the same cheap tricks over and over again. Make all the characters horrible people. Everyone betrays each other. Add nudity and sex. Kill someone unexpected in a needlessly gruesome way. Rinse repeat.

[@omnomnomnomm]

still much more entertaining than your whole life i assume

[@samgoodman1084]

u just described actual history. Everyone was assholes and betrayed each other, and most died in gruesome ways. His stories are based off of European history

[@grimkaizer8417]

George's near reverence for the historical depiction of squalor does get old at times. The fans will tell you "b-but that's like real life" but simultaneously champion the events where people act like heroes, or at least achieve heroic deeds. Personally I enjoy the series for the fantastical elements, moments of uncertainty and wonder, and times where courage is shown in impossible situations (Sansa during the Blackwater comes to mind). I find modern literature fans complete dismissal of black/white morality in story telling to be tiring and championing ASOIAF as being inherently great because they think George invented grey moraliry is asinine. Still tho, the books are pretty good.