#Tanselle

[garnetislovegarnetislife]

begging hbo to make the opening sequence for dunk and egg (at least for the hedge knight) some sort of puppet show or at least involve puppets of some kind

[franzkafkagf]

tanselle too tall was her name, but she was not too tall for me.

[jaehaeryshater]

Announced Casting for upcoming series A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms; they are as follows: Dexter Sol Ansell as Egg, Peter Claffey as Duncan the Tall, Sam Spruell as Maekar Targaryen, Finn Bennett as Aerion Targaryen, Bertie Carvel as Baelor Breakspear, Daniel Ings as Lyonel the Laughing Storm, and Tanzyn Crawford as Tanselle! Last pic is speculated actors, and we do not know their role yet

[aphrmoosun]

"A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms." (2025) [CAST]

[ophelias-lamentation]

[nobodysuspectsthebutterfly]

The Hedge Knight graphic novel - could it work as a roadmap for HBO's A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms?

So, per reports, HBO's Dunk & Egg show is going to be 6 episodes. I've seen several people saying that's too long, it should be 4 episodes at most, a 2 hour movie at most, there will be too much filler, blah blah blah. Well let me tell you, that's not true!

In 2003, The Hedge Knight was adapted as a 6 issue comic book (later collected as a graphic novel), and I think its script, each issue ending in a cliffhanger or dun-dun-dunnn moment, would work perfectly for the show, and is very probably how they'll do it.

Potential spoilers under the cut, but first - is this not perfect casting and costuming? It so is.

Like I said, I think each issue could be the plot of each episode. So I'm just going to summarize these issues, I hope you've read the GN or the novella. (If not, go read it, go read all of Dunk & Egg, it's so good.)

#1 - Dunk buries Ser Arlan, decides to go to Ashford for the tourney, meets Egg and a weird drunk guy at an inn on the way, gets to Ashford, sets up camp in the forest (bathes naked in a stream), goes to the tourney field and sees Tanselle performing her puppet show, gets measured for armor he can't quite afford, gets back to his camp to find the weird little bald kid making dinner.

#2 - Dunk agrees Egg can be his squire, that night he sees the falling star, next morning goes to Ashford castle and gets told he needs to prove he's a knight to enter the tourney (or that Arlan was, since he says Arlan knighted him), meets Aerion (badly) but also the Kingsguard, sells his horse for armor money, talks to Tanselle and meets the Fossoways, then meets up with the young Dondarrion lord whose dad Arlan worked for and relates the House Dondarrion origin story (imagine them telling that via puppet imagery, ooh), gets told "yeah knowing that is no proof you're a knight, sucks to be you".

#3 - Dunk goes back to the castle, stumbles into Baelor and Maekar arguing about M's missing kids, Baelor remembers his epic joust with Arlan so yay Dunk can be in the tourney, Dunk and Egg talk to Tanselle about painting him a shield, they watch the opening of the tourney (lots of jousting and pageantry including Lyonel "the Laughing Storm" Baratheon), and the first day ends after Aerion deliberately kills that horse.

#4 - Dunk argues with Egg over how much of a douche Aerion is, more flirting with Tanselle, gossip with Raymun Fossoway about the Targaryens, Egg runs in to say Aerion's hurting Tanselle, Dunk beats up Aerion and almost gets murdered by Aerion's goons, Egg reveals himself to save Dunk, Dunk in prison, talks to Egg and Baelor, Baelor tells him he can be mutilated for striking a prince or ask for trial by combat, so "how good a knight are you, truly?"

#5 - Aerion says sure, trial by combat, but only a trial of seven, Dunk has to find 6 guys, talks to Raymun and Steffon Fossoway, Daeron apologizes and tells Dunk his dragon dream, shield reveal, next morning the smallfolk are all "a knight who remembered his vows", various guys show up to help Dunk and Raymun gets knighted, but Steffon Fossoway goes to Aerion's side so they're still missing a guy, "are there no true knights among you?", wait is that Valarr??? no it's Baelor in Valarr's armor omg

#6 - The trial of seven. You know how this ends. 😭 Then talking to Maekar, and Dunk and Egg ride off into the sunset together.

I hope that's convincing enough for the doubters! I can see a few points where something might be shifted from the end of one to the beginning of the other -- but on the whole I think the comic is an excellent roadmap for the show, and I hope this is the way they lay it out. Also ftr, the Sworn Sword graphic novel was also originally 6 issues so possibly season 2 ditto (unless they add an episode for the in between THK-TSS Dorne and Oldtown adventures that didn't actually appear in the novellas, idk). But the Mystery Knight was only released as one book, so who knows, they might go for more episodes when they get to that season.

Also, re taking inspiration from the comic, I really hope they adapt the Kingsguards' gold codpieces. Just because.

[swallowtail-ageha]

[funnypages]

Current announced cast of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

[the-red-butterfly]

Under The Shooting Star

Dunk l Duncan, Egg l Aegon, Tanselle (The Hedge Knight)

Commission I did for a friend, took me too much damn time to make but that's on me, I was very intimidated by it 😂

I made a process vide for it in case anyone's interested: Art Process + reading // The Hedge Knight

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Open for Commissions

[shiesie]

Obviously, not all the characters are currently dead, but this poll is simply influenced by the energy I get when I read the books

[cynicalclassicist]

Well, GRRM is a romantic! And Dunk is someone who fits romantic ideals in a way.

listen i love yearning. i love ‘almost’ relationships. tanselle x dunk are like actual catnip to me. “tanselle too-tall was her name, but she was never too tall for me” do you want me to kill myself!!! wandering across dorne and the seven kingdoms watching puppet show after puppet show for a glimpse of her. he’s asked if he ever dreamed of being a kingsguard and instead he dreams of tanselle, of one day finding her and having a wife and son. they never even kissed!!! find a man who yearns like dunk.

[make-dragonspyre-great-again]

every wizard101 and pirate101 player should be allowed to adopt a really obscure npc to care for like a baby and basically make their own original character with headcanons

[wodania]

sketch?!:0

tanselle too tall and egg, and a doodle of a the amazing devil photoshoot!

[ophelias-lamentation]

new fanart challenge <3

[daenerysoftarth]

like this dude has so little experience that he feels guilty when fantasizing about Rohanne because he still feels somehow attached to Tanselle, who he knew for exactly 3 seconds 1.5 years before even tho they only had like 2 conversations

and everyone is like this is the hottest piece of ass I’ve ever seen

its incredible how much of a virgin cringefail king dunk is and yet he still manages to seduce every man and woman in westeros somehow

[blackbyrenflowers]

I've decided that I'm going to be an Aerion Brightflame apologist for whenever the Dunk and Egg show comes out. This isn't because of anything to do with the Targaryens or Dunk or me thinking he's hot, I just feel like it'll be funny so I'm starting early.