Game Of Thrones: What Do Your Favourite Characters Look Like In The Books?
16. Samwell Tarly
Another case of the TV show getting the character perfect is with the loyal, yet hapless, Sam. In a Jon-related chapter of the first book, he first encounters Sam:
"Through the eye slit of his helm, he beheld the fattest boy he had ever seen standing in the door of the armoury. By the look of him, he must have weighed twenty stone. The fur collar of his embroidered surcoat was lost beneath his chins. Pale eyes moved nervously in a great round moon of a face, and plump sweaty fingers wiped themselves on the velvet of his doublet. They... they told me I was to come here for... for training, he said to no one in particular."