Another GOT related post! GRRM recently wrote a blog post about what he imagined the Iron Throne would look like and unsurprisingly it isn't what appears in the HBO series. Rarely does an author's vision match 100% with what is produced on-screen, and neither of these may match with what the reader has imagined. Such are the limitations or freedoms of an individuals imagination. He comments that the show's throne is of 'terrific design' and is now iconic in popular culture and will always be THE Iron Throne for many people. The Throne that he imagines as he rights the forthcoming book 'The Winds of Winter' is more of a hulking, twisted high seat from which the king looks down on his subjects and those that look up; despair.
The above image (Marc Simonetti) is more along the lines of what GRRM wants his readers to picture when they read the novels - gargantuan and full of malice, a symbol of conquest and massacre.
