SoST Quarterfinals: Sandor Clegane vs Barristan Selmye

[Wiggum]

Voting ends Saturday

 

[Winters_Sorrow]

Tough one, but I had to go with age & experience versus rage & viciousness (is that a word? oh well )

 

[Snagas Tender Blades]

bye bye Sandor

 

[TK-421]

This is the kind of match up I have been waiting for. I fully expect the Bold to win But it seems like it may be a close one. I had to go with the Hound. In my mind, the angrier he gets the more unbeatable he becomes.

 

[Aegon the Unworthy]

TK...this is Barristan freakin Selmy we're talking about.....did you not notice? Barristan freaking Selmy? The Hound is an accomplished bladesman...seriously though, Barristan freaking Selmy.....words escape me, and Im unable to formulate a coherent argument other than to say, Barristan freaking Selmy.

The floor is yours

 

[Boaz]

I had to go with the Hound. In my mind, the angrier he gets the more unbeatable he becomes.

Is he the Hound or the Hulk?

 

[Culhwch]

You don't want to see him when he's angry.

Where does that bloody 'e' keep coming from!?!?!?! Selmy! Which is also my vote.

 

[TomServo]

...this is Barristan freakin Selmy we're talking about.....

This is just about exactly what I was gonna say, but I was gonna try to pass it off as a logical and well thought out response.

 

[Boaz]

Where does that bloody 'e' keep coming from!?!?!?! Selmy! Which is also my vote.

Selmye is Old Westerosi.

During the reign of Baelor the Blessed, when the Maesters gained ascendence over the Pyromancers, much of the spelling in the Seven Kingdoms was standardized. Some of the houses lost their Es and some kept theirs. For example, Houses Stark and Arryn used to be Houses Starke and Arryne while Houses Dayne and Payne are still Houses Dayne and Payne. (Don't you love that the headsman's name is Payne?) Houses Tully and Tyrell were the first to drop their Es. The reason was gratitude for their new power under Targaryen rule.

And if you believe this, I've got some nice Wall front property to sell you... on the North side, of course.

 

[Weasel Soup]

Actually you have a Shoppe on the wall front property.

 

[Faceless Woman]

Barristan is a knight. Sandor would never lose to a knight, never.

 

[Florian the Fool]

I went for Sandor on this, partly because the thought of a Selmy/Dayne final strikes me as really anticlimactic, and partly because I just like him better.

 

[Aegon the Unworthy]

This is just about exactly what I was gonna say, but I was gonna try to pass it off as a logical and well thought out response.

Funny, I thought mine was a logical and well thought response....

But in case you dont think so, allow me to recap.....

Point 1. Barristan freakin Selmy

I rest my case

 

[TK-421]

Barristan freakin' Selmy...paahhhhhh...I fart in your general direction, you and your English kiniggits.

I als share the Hound's distate for knights and Sers

 

[Snagas Tender Blades]

oh well, seems that Sandor friggin' Clegane died...