The One Thing Most People Get Wrong About The Game of Thrones Including HBO!

HBO’s Game of Thrones Series is an amazing show and has many fans, but the show got one critical piece of the story wrong.

In the HBO TV show, they depict the Iron Throne in a way like this:

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 Apparently the throne is not supposed to look like this at all, and in other depictions of the Iron Throne from fans and artists are all incorrect according the George R.R. Martin, creator of the series.

Martin does complement the throne HBO designed though, saying “The HBO throne has become iconic. And well it might. It’s a terrific design, and it has served the show very well. There are replicas and paperweights of it in three different sizes. Everyone knows it. I love it. I have all those replicas right here, sitting on my shelves.”

But, he goes on to say “And yet, and yet… it’s still not right. It’s not the Iron Throne I see when I’m working on THE WINDS OF WINTER. It’s not the Iron Throne I want my readers to see. The way the throne is described in the books… HUGE, hulking, black and twisted, with the steep iron stairs in front, the high seat from which the king looks DOWN on everyone in the court… my throne is a hunched beast looming over the throne room, ugly and assymetric…

The HBO throne is none of those things. It’s big, yes, but not nearly as big as the one described in the novels. And for good reason. We have a huge throne room set in Belfast, but not nearly huge enough to hold the Iron Throne as I painted it. For that we’d need something much bigger, more like the interior of St. Paul’s Cathedral or Westminster Abbey, and no set has that much room. The Book Version of the Iron Throne would not even fit through the doors of the Paint Hall.”

Who got closest to getting it right? According to George R.R. Martin, Marc Simonetti who produced the painting below:

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Martin says “Marc has come closer here to capturing the Iron Throne as I picture it than any other artist to tackle it. From now on, THIS will be the reference I give to every other artist tackling a throne room scene. This Iron Throne is massive. Ugly. Assymetric. It’s a throne made by blacksmiths hammering together half-melted, broken, twisted swords, wrenched from the hands of dead men or yielded up by defeated foes… a symbol of conquest… it has the steps I describe, and the height. From on top, the king dominates the throne room. And there are thousands of swords in it, not just a few.

This Iron Throne is scary. And not at all a comfortable seat, just as Aegon intended.”

See Martin’s blog for his complete entry regarding this topic here: http://grrm.livejournal.com/327569.html