When a television show is adapted from a book, some liberties are generally taken for the sake of budget and plot--even a television adaptation as well-produced as Game of Thrones, which tends to stick to the A Song of Ice and Fire books its based on closely, had to make a few changes.
That said, this new revelation from author George R. R. Martin still comes as an insane, terrifying surprise: Apparently, the Iron Throne we see in the show looks like nothing like the Iron Throne Martin envisioned for his books. Martin explained how his version of the iconic symbol of the show actually looks in a new blog post on his Livejournal yesterday:
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He then attaches a picture by artist Marc Simonetti that was commissioned for the upcoming concordance The World of Ice & Fire. Apparently, this picture comes closest to depicting what the Iron Throne should actually look like per the books/Martin's mind, which is clearly a terrifying place:
"From now on, THIS will be the reference I give to every other artist tackling a throne room scene. This Iron Throne is massive," Martin writes. "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...this Iron Throne is scary. And not at all a comfortable seat, just as Aegon intended." Yes, this is where nightmares are born.
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[via Uproxx]
