: Re: Is Jaime Lannister a "telling not showing" example? Warning: spoilers of A Song of Ice and Fire. I was reading through this site that you should avoid telling what a character is by using

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Part of the point of ASOIAF is that no character, except maybe spoiler, knows everything. Some characters are eyewitnesses to some things, most people are working off of second or third hand information for most things.

A person's reputation for skill is one of those things that not everyone can witness first hand, but the rumor is out there, and the characters and the reader must decide for themselves what they believe, and act accordingly.

(Though I think in this case, I think there are people who saw Jaime win in tournaments and the like, just not at the points in time when we get the POV descriptions, so it's safe for the characters and reader to assume it's true, at least prior to Jaime's maiming)

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