My Favourite Characters: Tyrion Lannister

Every week I will be posting a feature detailing some of my favourite fictional characters from films, T.V and videogames this week I will be talking about the popular Game of Thrones character Tyrion Lannister who is portrayed by Peter Dinklage.

I doubt very much that the popular T.V series Game of Thrones would have got the ratings it did without the help of this character. After the death of a certain character Tyrion takes centre stage in the show and becomes the lead in a show that is told from many different perspectives.

Tyrion has a very tragic background, the son of the richest man in Westeros Tywin Lannister and Joanna Lannister and brother to Cersei Lannister (the future Queen) and Jamie Lannister. His mother Joanna died giving birth to him, something that his father and sister have never quite forgiven him for. He was born as a dwarf which cause him many problems during later life.He is caused many names such as 'imp' or 'halfman'. However although his physical stature may cause him problems he is extremely well educated and very cunning. Therefore this makes up for his dwarfism. Although he is not completely useless on the battlefield as evident in the season 1 episode 'The Wolf and the Lion' where he kills a man with a shield and in The Battle of Blackwater he shows off his battle skills and master tactics to almost completely wipe out Stannis' fleet of ships.

The character is highly eccentric which makes him so easy to watch he is also brilliantly portrayed by Peter Dinklage, who although was stepping into a brilliantly wrote role makes it his own with highly accurate portrayal bringing Tyrion to life brilliantly