| ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Elinor Tyrell by Drazenka Kimpel © Fantasy Flight Games | ||||
|
| ||||
| Allegiance | House Tyrell | |||
| Culture | Reach | |||
| Born |
286 AC (roughly)[1] Reach[2] | |||
| Father | Theodore Tyrell | |||
| Mother | Lia Serry | |||
| Books |
| |||
Elinor Tyrell is a member of a junior branch of House Tyrell and is a lady-in-waiting of Lady Margaery Tyrell.[3] Elinor is betrothed to Alyn Ambrose, whom she is to marry once he becomes a knight.[3]
Appearance and Character
Elinor is willowy and witty. She is a maiden flowered, and rules Margaery's younger cousins, Megga and Alla, by right of womanhood. Elinor loves to flirt.[4]
Recent Events
A Storm of Swords
Elinor's betrothed, Alyn Ambrose, wore her favor during the Battle of the Blackwater.[3]
Elinor is one of the ladies attending Lady Margaery Tyrell in King's Landing.[5] She is a bedmaid, friend, and confidante of Margaery. Elinor becomes one of Sansa Stark's friends when Margaery brings her into their company.[3]
At the wedding feast for Sansa and Tyrion Lannister, though the Tyrells attend, Elinor and her cousins ignore the bride to show their dissatisfaction with the match, as the Tyrells had hoped for Sansa to marry Willas Tyrell instead. Elinor dances with her betrothed, Alyn Ambrose.[6]
At the wedding of Margaery and King Joffrey Baratheon, Sansa compliments Elinor on her gown.[7]
A Feast for Crows
Elinor attends the wedding of Margaery and King Tommen I Baratheon, during which she dances with Tommen and shares a cup of wine with Aurane Waters.[8] Taena of Myr tells Queen Regent Cersei Lannister that her maid, Senelle, brings messages to Elinor and her cousins.[8]
Margaery's cousins tease Ser Osney Kettleblack about his nose.[9] Ser Osmund Kettleblack tells Cersei that Margaery often reads with Elinor, and that Ser Tallad the Tall desires Elinor and her cousin Alla.[10] Alyn accompanies Elinor during one of Margaery's rides.[4]
Due to Cersei's plotting,[11] Elinor is arrested by the Faith of the Seven for trumped-up crimes of fornication, along with Megga Tyrell and Margaery, and held captive in the Great Sept of Baelor. When examined by a septa, Elinor's maidenhead is found to be broken.[12]
A Dance with Dragons
Almost all of the men named as Margaery's lovers have denied the accusation or recanted, so she and her cousins, including Elinor, are handed over by the High Septon to the custody of Lord Randyll Tarly. Randyll swears a holy oath to return them for their trial.[13]
Quotes by Elinor
Quotes about Elinor
Family
References
- ↑ See the Elinor Tyrell calculation.
- ↑ George R. R. Martin's A World of Ice and Fire, Elinor Tyrell.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 16, Sansa II.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 28, Cersei VI.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 6, Sansa I.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 28, Sansa III.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 60, Tyrion VIII.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 12, Cersei III.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 17, Cersei IV.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 24, Cersei V.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 39, Cersei IX.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 43, Cersei X.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 54, Cersei I.