Here's Game of Thrones' 'Real' Iron Throne

In a recent blog post, Game of Thrones' author George R.R. Martin has given the world a glimpse of the Iron Throne he sees in his head, and it looks something like this:

The image was painted by French artist Marc Simonetti, and is made, as Martin describes, from "thousands of swords."

"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 foe."

So what does Martin think of HBO's version of The Iron Throne? It's good, he thinks, but not quite good enough.

"The HBO throne has become iconic. And well it might. It's a terrific design, and it has served the show very well...everyone knows it. I love it. I have all those replicas right here, sitting on my shelves.And yet, and yet... it's still not right. It's not the Iron Throne I see when I'm working on (the forthcoming sixth Game of Thrones novel) 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 asymmetric...

The HBO throne is none of those things."

For good reason, it seems. Martin goes on to explain that if the above version were to appear on the popular HBO show, it would take an interior as big as St. Paul's Cathedral or Westminster Abbey to house it.

Lucy O'Brien is Entertainment Editor at IGN AU. Follow her ramblings on IGN at Luce_IGN_AU,or @Luceobrien on Twitter.

Source : ign[dot]com