Harrenhal’s Weirwood tree carved to look like George R.R. Martin in House of the Dragon

I feel like George R.R. Martin is honestly just doing side quests at this point, but did you notice his slightly unusual cameo in House of the Dragon? Whilst he didn’t appear as a physical character, the Game of Thrones author has been forever immortalised as one of the faces in the Weirwood tree at Harrenhal.

House of the Dragon producer Ryan Condol wanted to find a way to sneakily include George R.R. Martin in the episode, but knew the team couldn’t get him as an extra because of an announcement the author made a couple of years ago. During the 2022 San Diego Comic-Con, he explained he would never make any cameos in his TV projects until he finishes The Wind of Winter, so basically he’s never going to make any cameos.

The Weirwood tree at Harrenhal was carved to depict the face of George R.R. Martin #HouseOfTheDragon pic.twitter.com/eUNh3Fg7DW

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Production designer Tim Clay explained: “Ryan wanted to do [the tree] as a bit of a tribute,” production designer Tim Clay explained. One of the art directors added: “The brief was to make it feel enough like him, but you’re never really sure. The idea is that you don’t look at it straight away and thank ‘That’s George R. R. Martin,’ you do a second take, and say, ‘Ooh, is that?’”

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VFX producer Thomas Horton explained: “What’s lovely about the show is everything’s so character-based that even the tree is a character.” The Weirwood tree is a massive part of both House of the Dragon and Game of Thrones, and when one touches it you can see the future. Fingers crossed George R.R. Martin’s future includes finally finishing all the Game of Thrones books!

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