A Time for Charts: How Big are Men in Westeros?

The world of Game of Thrones is one where Giants still roam the planet, at least when the story begins. (RIP Wun Weg Wum Dar Wun.) Those giants might have lived well north of the Wall, but they still lived. In a world where half-men like Tyrion can rise to power and Giants can be brought down with a well timed arrow to the eye, one does wonder: how big are the men in Westeros anyway?

A brand new chart via Reddit helps us compare the relative sizes of the characters. It also shows how large the direwolves are really supposed to be.

Please note: all of these are taken from the pages of A Song of Ice and Fire. Direwolves are not really shown much onscreen due to budget constraints, and the actors are not always the same size as the characters are described to be in the books. In order to account for this (and for all the characters that the show leaves out) this is strictly an ASOIAF exercise. Please don’t start complaining that Richard Madden or Alfie Allen is actually X’xx”.

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For me, the biggest takeaway is just how much the show has skimped on the direwolves. Ghost could seriously eat Littlefinger. (And I don’t think many people would mind.) Ghost should, according to this, top Jon Snow in height. As we know, that’s not even close to the case on screen.

On the other hand, Wun Wun is just about the right size relative to his human companions. I always sort of assumed that the giants on the show were shorter than their book counterparts, due to the physical constraints of the human body and what can be accomplisheded with CGI. But the show stayed true to the books there.

Pity about those Stark direwolves though.