Wow. George R.R. Martin, the creator of the famous Game of Thrones books revealed on his blog what he believed to be the closest depiction of what the Iron Throne should look like as written in the books.
“I’m a realist about these things, and I know perfectly well that for millions of television viewers worldwide, the HBO Iron Throne is THE Iron Throne, and always will be. It turns up everywhere, on book covers, on magazines, in places that have no connection to the show. Say “GAME OF THRONES,” and people think of the HBO Iron Throne.”
So what does the Real Iron Throne look like, you ask? Glad you asked. It looks kind of like this:
All we can say is… EPIC!!! If you think about it the Iron Throne was made with ALL of the swords of the army of the Mad King that conquered Kings Landing. So the image above makes a lot more sense compared to the one we see in the HBO series.
That’s the Iron Throne as painted by the amazing Marc Simonetti (and if you haven’t gotten his 2013 Ice & Fire calendar, better hurry, the year’s half over) for the upcoming concordance, THE WORLD OF ICE & FIRE. It’s a rough, not a final version, so what you see in the book will be more polished. But 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.
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