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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DMScott" data-source="post: 1195661" data-attributes="member: 11734">I think it would've made a pretty nice trilogy. Reading "Eye of the World" - where the heroes meet each other, discover their special powers, travel thousands of miles overcoming many foes, and face down an ancient prophecy - shows a huge contrast to what the series has become. If Jordan wrote EOTW at his current narrative pace, it'd be at least six books, probably more. Somewhere along the line, he (and his agent and publisher, no doubt) figured out that people will buy his books no matter what he puts in them. And so he no longer seems to care what kind of dreck he churns out.I don't think Martin will go down that road, but I am a little worried. The first trilogy didn't end so much as stop, it'd be easy for him to keep on writing every little thing that happens between the first and second trilogies. I kinda wish he'd parked everybody in a reasonably stable place and state and then said "OK, five years pass", to avoid the temptation to fill the bridging book with minutiae. As it is, a lot of characters ended the first trilogy in a transition state, which means readers want to know what happens to them next, which means Martin is tempted to write what happens next even if it isn't that important to the narrative, which increases the odds of us eventually getting "Crossroads of Ice and Fire"...</blockquote>