“Invaders! Quick! Mobilize the Lollipop Guild!”

In Russia, the doorways to churches are deliberately about a head shorter than most people stand. This is due to the fact that Russian Orthodox priests “get” the value that the proper position before God is one of humility, so even the architecture “made you bow your head” (a symbol of said requisite humility) before entering. Bran is similar, except that I think it’s just because people were smaller and shorter. I felt like Goliath walking through doorways like this one, and actually laughed out loud once thinking what Ron VanderGriend (who’s like 8 feet tall and bigger around than I am) must think when he comes to places like this. It’s a good thing that probably everyone at the time was this size, or invading armies would have expected to see armor-clad equivalents to the Wizard of Oz munchkins emerging from the guard towers to defend against them. “Oh no! It’s the Lollipop Guild! Take cover!”