TV development that may spoil future books:
Spoiler!
Hasn't Martin outright denied that Benjen is Coldhands? He sure looked like Coldhands in tonight's episode. Not to mention his dragonglass explanation and how the Children of the Forest saved him makes sense with what we've seen so far.
From westeros.org
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This is a point where the show's gone in a different direction from #GRRM:
http://ow.ly/T9Sx300HVSj #GameOfThrones #ASoIaF #MysteryRemains
I wonder if maybe he's just been misleading his editor and book collaborators all along?
I think it's best to mark potential spoilers, whether sourced from the show or from preview chapters. Unless this series now demands three threads: Books only, TV show only, and one for both? I don't know.