Why The Red Wedding Was So Much Better In The Books

Did you know in the books the Red Wedding was so much better because the Northern Lords actually tried to save Robb Stark's life? This short uses evidence from A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, A Dance with Dragons and The Winds of Winter.

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[Xtessisold]

This just shows how much the northern lords loved the Starks/ Robb stark.

[---sin---]

The fact that he said Jaime Lannister sends his regards knowing that she freed him hits so much harder.

[ciaranconlon]

The scene in the books is so more intense. I remember the Catelyn POV as she noted the musicians were terrible. She thinks how most people would assume he just hired some really cheap musicians, but she felt he hired bad ones on purpose as a petty insult to the Starks. She eventually realises they are bad musicians because they are not musicians, they are soldiers.

[probablynobody]

In the books, it was the job of a bunch of Freys to get Greatjon Umber so drunk he couldn’t fight. Still, the man was beating in heads. Real One

[alaaalmelhem]

And let's not forget the legendary Greatjon Umber, it toke 8 men to pin him down and he killed one and inured two others

[Methuslah]

Funny thing is: Jaime Lannister actually DID send his regards. Roose Bolton was holding Harrenhal when Jaime and Brienne passed through. Jaime found out that Roose would be seeing Robb at the wedding of Edmure to Roslyn. They have this exchange:

Roose: “You will give my warm regards to your father?”

Jaime: “So long as you give mine to Robb Stark.”

Roose: “That I shall.”

So essentially, Roose decided to pass on Jaime’s regards right as he stabbed Robb, just because he’s an ice cold mf. But Catelyn thinks that Jaime is involved in the Red Wedding because of the timing (which is honestly a reasonable conclusion to draw).

[debashri]

In the end, Caitlin sees how everything is lost. She seems to lose her mind and rakes her own face hard with her nails. Blood trickles down her face and she feels it tickle her. She starts laughing to herself. And one of the Freys says she's lost her head and to kill her.
In the end she thinks of all her children and Ned just before her neck is cut.

[hectormiranda]

Catelyn: A son for a son

Walder: A son for a son, eh. But that's a grandson and he's never been of much use

[tytybaby]

& Greywind was tryna warn him all day! Cat told him to listen to his wolf but he locked him up outside 😩😢

[Dorne_is_the_GOAT]

The original Red Wedding from the book is easily more unsettling, disturbing, horrifying, and more shocking than the version we got in the HBO adaptation. The extra details such as the drums playing and Catelyn Stark's inner thoughts during the massacre gave me goosebumps. The part where Catelyn claws her own face apart was beyond disturbing along with how insane she became after Robb Stark was stabbed through the heart by Roose Bolton's longsword.

[lemya]

That Catelyn chapter will forever go down to the most horrific one I've ever read. I can still remember feeling numb, I couldn't believe what I was reading, it was heartbreaking.
"No, not my hair..."

[jackleith]

I also preferred Roose’s killing blow in the book. A sword through his back rather than a dagger in the heart. The image of Robb falling backwards into the sword as Rose Bolton learns forward to say in his ear (in his quiet, whispery book voice), “Jaime Lannister sends his regards.” was much more chilling to me.

[juanferandrade]

It’s really nice in the book, you also see a Piper man-at-arms that Arya and the hound find in the woods half-dead that says to them “we were drinking and singing, then the Bolton man took a mace to me, as if we weren’t sharing mead seconds before” (or some like that) it really makes you feel their betrayal and how messed up it was.

[NHBoudy]

Northerners protecting Robb with their bodies, they are so fierce. Best warriors of Westeros.

[batuhand]

Robb's wife being there and the gore scene made it something else

[DurvalLacerda]

In the books the whole mood and vibe BEFORE the murders was a slow burn fever dream, even the food was unsettling. They had meat boiled in milk, sheep brain and other weird foods. It was hot and humid and the drum players were all out of sync.
You could sense something bad was about to happen.

[rockinryguy]

Smalljon was done so dirty by the show, the writers let him survive the red wedding so they could make him a traitor.

[ACinemafanatic]

In the books I love the small foreshadowing in the house of the undying when Dany sees it but we don’t find out until later

[sag]

in the books greywind actually breaks free runs up in there and dies like a g

[johnnk]

They had to get Greatjon Umber excessively drunk before they tried to restrain him. And still, it took like half a dozen men to successfully subdude him. 😂