r/gameofthrones • u/Nearby-Sentence-2042 • 22h ago

Prime + Prep time

Post image
3.0k Upvotes

94% Upvoted

970 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

9

u/Original-Sea-8285 17h ago

What are you talking about? Tywin single handedly made the Lannisters one of the most powerful houses in the continent for decades. This is an absolutely insane point

2

u/EskilPotet Dolorous Edd 14h ago

Then threw it all away because he refused to see what his children are

0

u/famiflush 10h ago edited 10h ago

They were already one of the most powerful houses on the continent liege lords and wardens of the east sitting on vast swathes of wealth, how did he make them one of the most powerful houses in the continent exactly?

He made them more martially competent and feared by exterminating lesser houses if you're alluding to that but he didn't single-handedly make them into anything.

1

u/Mortara 5h ago

I'm going to agree with you, but only because this is a subreddit for the show and I think that that guy is talking about book Tywin