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I think the Night Watch has ended. The Wildlings were won to Jon and out numbered the Watch. Castle Black will fall as a result, the others will follow. Good thing Sam has the horn, but mayhaps he blows it just for the heck of it down in Old Town, does the wall still fall? Without a Night's Watch, the vow isn't actually broken. John is free to go on his merry way, supposing he even lives.
I think that when they say "the wall falls", they might mean the enchantment that keep the white walkers out fall? Meaning the white walkers can access the north and kill etc. I think you're right about the Night's Watch, though. it's definitely dwindled down, and with what happened to Jon... I don't think he will die. I'm just not sure how that'll happen. Where do you think Jon would go, if he could leave?
I would like to see Dany on the throne too, but somehow I think she won't survive, and it will be Tyrion on the throne. It would be a real ironic ending... GRRM has torn down a lot of fantasy conventions in ASoIaF, so maybe the last one will be the idea of a handsome, able-bodied king. A dwarf gets to be king!! (I'm all for it, I love Tyrion and thinks he'll make a great king).
I wonder if Jon, having just be supposedly stabbed to death at the end of book 5, is going to be brought back to life by Melisandre or another red priest, and then be released from his night's watch vows, since according the words, death releases a watcher from their vows. Then he would be free to pursue the Iron Throne if he is Rhaegar's son and wants to. He might...he has wanted to leave the watch and take part in all the politics before (with Robb, then Arya, and with helping Stannis to a point).
But he only thought about abandoning the NW to save his siblings. I don't see it in him to do it for the Throne. He's too much of a Stark for that, regardless whether there's any Targaryen in the mix or not.
Jon Snow at the head of an army of the First People's Republic of the Great White North (Brandon Stark as Ambassador to the Undead) meets up with Danys Stormborn, who has been learning her own lessons about absolute power dragging her skinny white ass through the slave cities. Together they overthrow Stannis Baratheon (First of His Name etc., etc.), who rose to the throne via marriage to Margarey Tyrell with the blessing and support of the Iron Bank, the church and every other trapping of monarchy in the Seven Kingdoms. Jon and Danys create a democracy once they decide neither one of them really want to be monarch. Arya, fighting at Danys' side since the middle of the next book (both high-born girls in exile crossing the Narrow Sea), is the go-between, killing whoever is the last of the names on her list to remove the final obstacle (and knowing GRRM, dying in the process). I'm not sure how Tyrion fits in but he's there at the end (the bastard, the orphan, the exile together ... three dragons to ride ...). After so many pages, there has to be a bigger conclusion than "then so-and-so became king / queen and they ruled until the next crisis of succession."
Martin is a disciple of JRR Tolkein, after all, and LOTR ended with all the magic races sailing away from Middle Earth and ushering in the Age of Men.
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I think the Night Watch has ended. The Wildlings were won to Jon and out numbered the Watch. Castle Black will fall as a result, the others will follow. Good thing Sam has the horn, but mayhaps he blows it just for the heck of it down in Old Town, does the wall still fall? Without a Night's Watch, the vow isn't actually broken. John is free to go on his merry way, supposing he even lives.
I think that when they say "the wall falls", they might mean the enchantment that keep the white walkers out fall? Meaning the white walkers can access the north and kill etc. I think you're right about the Night's Watch, though. it's definitely dwindled down, and with what happened to Jon... I don't think he will die. I'm just not sure how that'll happen. Where do you think Jon would go, if he could leave?
I would like to see Dany on the throne too, but somehow I think she won't survive, and it will be Tyrion on the throne. It would be a real ironic ending... GRRM has torn down a lot of fantasy conventions in ASoIaF, so maybe the last one will be the idea of a handsome, able-bodied king. A dwarf gets to be king!! (I'm all for it, I love Tyrion and thinks he'll make a great king).
I wonder if Jon, having just be supposedly stabbed to death at the end of book 5, is going to be brought back to life by Melisandre or another red priest, and then be released from his night's watch vows, since according the words, death releases a watcher from their vows. Then he would be free to pursue the Iron Throne if he is Rhaegar's son and wants to. He might...he has wanted to leave the watch and take part in all the politics before (with Robb, then Arya, and with helping Stannis to a point).
But he only thought about abandoning the NW to save his siblings. I don't see it in him to do it for the Throne. He's too much of a Stark for that, regardless whether there's any Targaryen in the mix or not.
Jon Snow at the head of an army of the First People's Republic of the Great White North (Brandon Stark as Ambassador to the Undead) meets up with Danys Stormborn, who has been learning her own lessons about absolute power dragging her skinny white ass through the slave cities. Together they overthrow Stannis Baratheon (First of His Name etc., etc.), who rose to the throne via marriage to Margarey Tyrell with the blessing and support of the Iron Bank, the church and every other trapping of monarchy in the Seven Kingdoms. Jon and Danys create a democracy once they decide neither one of them really want to be monarch. Arya, fighting at Danys' side since the middle of the next book (both high-born girls in exile crossing the Narrow Sea), is the go-between, killing whoever is the last of the names on her list to remove the final obstacle (and knowing GRRM, dying in the process). I'm not sure how Tyrion fits in but he's there at the end (the bastard, the orphan, the exile together ... three dragons to ride ...). After so many pages, there has to be a bigger conclusion than "then so-and-so became king / queen and they ruled until the next crisis of succession."Martin is a disciple of JRR Tolkein, after all, and LOTR ended with all the magic races sailing away from Middle Earth and ushering in the Age of Men.
As for Dany and Tyrion... Dany, I can see, but Tyrion is facing some issues. From my point of view, he has become a much less stable person, owing to years and years of emotional and physical abuse. Tyrion is either on a downward spiral towards death or some kind of spiral towards Dany (and death), or, if he ever does reach King's Landing again, death, because he killed his father.