HBO’s acclaimed Game of Thrones may have ended in controversy, but according to eagle-eyed observers, the careless gaffes of the final season were merely the tip of the iceberg. Hiding in plain sight, the franchise suffered from blatant, uncorrected typos that remained throughout the entire run of the series.
“There were a million spelling errors”, complained Game of Thrones fan club president Myron O’Chang. “The show ran for eight years, and nobody noticed.” O’Chang shook his head and added, “A Kentucky first grader wouldn’t have made that many mistakes.”
George R.R. Martin discusses title errors
“Tyrion Lannister is me,” acknowledged novelist George R.R. Martin, whose A Song of Ice and Fire series of fantasy novels were the basis for the show. “Short, sarcastic, a lover of wine and whores and stinking drunk most of the time.” He nodded, a gleam in his eye. “Like Tyrion, I just can’t get enough wine and whores. Love ’em!”
Asked about the reported typos currently serving as fanboy fodder on the internet, Martin said, “They don’t know the half of it.” He took a swig of Two Buck Chuck, then continued. “There were two errors in the freaking title alone!” Asked to elaborate, Martin interrupted, “Shut up, let me speak! What was the question again?”
Martin unsteadily set the bottle of cheap wine down. “Oh yeah, the title. Let me ask you this: how many thrones are there in the series? Informed there were seven, he snapped, “Wrong! There’s just one: the Iron Throne. The others are nothing more than dick kingdoms.” Asked to get to the point, he replied, “Isn’t it obvious? Game of Thrones should have been Games of Throne, but Two Buck Chuck is a cheap, evil mistress. When I was editing the initial screenplay, I mistakenly put the s on the wrong word. My bad!”
Other Game of Thrones typos
Other spelling errors dotted the manuscript. “John Snow was intended to be ‘Juan Sleet’, but stupid auto-correct messed that one up,” said Martin. “Arya was supposed to be ‘Areola’ — you can thank Net Nanny for that one.” He further indicated that Drogon should have simply been ‘Dragon’, Jamie Lannister was meant to be ‘Jaime Cannister’ and Grey Worm was a fumble-fingering of the intended ‘Gay Worm’.
Spelling errors in the Game Of Thrones books. Is this normal? "The sim had broken through the clouds…" the sim? Really??
— Erin (@ErSchmi) September 10, 2017
“The list goes on and on,” said Martin, shaking his head. “Hell, I even misspelled my own name,” he confessed. My real name is George Rodrigo Martin — George R. Martin. But after a particularly long drinking jag just before starting the project, I twitched and typed an extra R for my middle initial. Whoopsy!”
The next project
Martin was circumspect about his next project, but promised that he’d edit it much more carefully this time. “I’m thinking about a Flintstones-style fantasy epic,” he mused. “Maybe a post-historic derivative of Frad, Wilmer, Blarney, Butty, Mr. Slats, the whole gang.”
Informed that he had every single name wrong, he blurted, “Dammit!” before collecting his bottle of wine and ending the interview. “Excuse me, I’ve got to see a man about a whore.”
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