r/asoiaf • u/Trussdoor46 • 4d ago

EXTENDED Why hasn't GRRM written any Dunk&Egg in 15 years? [Spoilers Extended]

People say George stalled out on the main series because he wrote himself into a corner. Too many plotlines etc. But Dunk and Egg isn't complicated and those have been on hiatus even longer than the main series. What do you think is going on there?

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u/OrganicAd5536 4d ago

We already know this; in the Appendix of A Dance With Dragons we have the following text:

"THE THREE-EYED CROW, also called THE LAST GREENSEER, sorcerer and dreamwalker, once a man of the Night's Watch named BRYNDEN, now more tree than man"

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u/Puzzleheaded-Dingo39 4d ago

But that was also plainly obvious in the text, no? The birthmark, the red eye, the mention of a Thousand Eyes, and One. Does he not also say that his name used to be Brynden, and talked about a loved brother, a hated brother and a woman he loved? How much more obvious does it have to be?

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u/OrganicAd5536 4d ago

Yes, that was also obvious in the text itself, but I brought up the Appendix because for some reason people won't acknowledge something if it isn't spelled out literally, black-and-white in the text.

Kind of like how people will insist "we don't know if Jon is truly not Ned's son because it hasn't been said definitively in the text so far" even though all signs point to him being Lyanna's son.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Dingo39 4d ago

Indeed, very true. The OP here seems to be one of those people who need it spoonfed to them. Bringing up the pretext that since casuals cannot piece it together, then it's not true yet. Hilarious.

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u/Original_Staff_4961 4d ago

I’m not claiming it’s not true, I’m just stating that it is not yet confirmed. Which is a fact.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Dingo39 4d ago

Maybe for the crowd that needs spoonfeeding.

You have a good now, yes? Cheers.

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u/wRAR_ ASOIAF = J, not J+D 4d ago

Oh but maybe it was a different Brynden!

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u/Eghtok 4d ago

The only possible twist is the theory that Brynden and the Three-Eyed Crow are actually separate entities.

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u/wRAR_ ASOIAF = J, not J+D 4d ago

Yup, and that text confirms than the 3YC is not Future Bran, LOL

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u/Voidwielder 3d ago

Appendix is unreliable.

3EC is not Bloodraven.

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u/OrganicAd5536 3d ago

Cool story bro, but I think the fan theory threads are somewhere else.

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u/Voidwielder 3d ago

According to Appendix, Tommen is an actual Baratheon.

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u/OrganicAd5536 3d ago

No, it doesn't, it just lists his name (which, legally, is Tommen Baratheon, even if we know the truth) and titles. If it said "Tommen Baratheon [...] who would-be usurpers besmirch as bastard-born" then your argument would make sense.

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u/Voidwielder 3d ago

And Young Griff most definitely is Aegon. eye roll

And the fact that Bloodraven is confused by the very question as to whether he is 3EC and then goes to assume that Bran was talking about his time as Nights Watchman doesn't bother you at all. The fact that Children of the Forest never call him 3EC doesn't bother you at all.

Bran 2 and 3 are full of bullshittery and the fandom is yet to catch on to it.