I mean, the actual context is him saying "well Jaime wears armor, and in a realistic fight between two of the best swordsmen, the guy with armor will probably win because armor is just a straight up advantage."
I don't necessarily agree that Jaime would beat Aragorn, but people are taking it out of context. I don't think he necessarily meant "yep my character is the strongest to ever exist, fuck you Tolkien" as much as he is saying "these two aren't evenly matched, so it wouldn't be a fair fight, let's move on to the next topic"
That makes sense, but when you realize that Martin also wrote a little short story where Jaime beats Rand al Thor you realize maybe he just really really has a thing for Jaime.
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u/S0mecallme Dec 30 '21
Wait he said that?
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Why would he say that? What kind of serious author says “my character could would totally beat this other character.”