Lommy Greenhands
A dyer's apprentice with green-stained hands, one of the King's Landing orphans on the road north with Yoren's recruits.
A soul born at King's Landing.
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How it ends for them
On the screen. Killed on the road (S2┬ÀE4)
A dyer's apprentice bound for the Wall, too lame to walk after the ambush on Yoren's column. Polliver asked if he could walk, then put Needle through his throat and carried the sword away.
On the page. Killed on the march (ACOK, ch. 20)
The dyer's boy took a spear through his lame leg on the march and couldn't walk. When Raff the Sweetling asked if he could carry him and Lommy said yes, Raff drove the spear through his throat instead.
He dies on the march, helpless, and the manner of it is engineered to be unbearable. Lamed in the leg during the ambush that kills Yoren, Lommy cannot walk; when the MountainÔÇÖs men sweep up the survivors, he does exactly what his creed prescribes ÔÇö yields, and asks to be carried. In the show Polliver asks whether he can walk, hears that he cannot, and drives Needle ÔÇö AryaÔÇÖs own stolen sword ÔÇö through his throat as the efficient alternative. In the books it is Raff the Sweetling, and the exchange is crueler still: told the boy must be carried, Raff answers ÔÇ£carry him, is it,ÔÇØ and carries the spear to him instead. Either way a child dies for the crime of a wounded leg, and Arya is watching. Polliver later returns Needle point-first at the crossroads inn; RaffÔÇÖs name stays on a list that has never yet gone uncollected.
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A Clash of Kings 1 chapter that name them
Where the page and the screen part
The tellings differ only in the hand that fails him: the ambush on YorenÔÇÖs column, the leg wound, and the fatal question are common to both, but the show gives the moment to Polliver and the books to Raff the Sweetling, two of the MountainÔÇÖs men cut from the same rotten cloth. The choice matters later, because AryaÔÇÖs memory is long in both directions ÔÇö the show settles the account in the inn scene where she reclaims Needle from Polliver, and a sample chapter released ahead of The Winds of Winter strongly suggests the books intend the same arithmetic for Raff, right down to the borrowed words.