George R.R. Martin’s Emmys get-up was so Game Of Thrones you may not have noticed just how GOT it was.
Yeah, you read that right.
George took sartorial geekdom to a whole new level when he accessorised his snazzy suit and flat cap with a turtle broach which featured a purple gemstone.
If you didn’t know the turtle is the ridiculously awesome fashion Easter egg the headline for this story refers to, because GOT was actually based upon the fictional exploits of turtles – specifically George’s castle full of lordly turtles.
It harks back to an interview with the Financial Times from 2011, when he recalled how he came up with the concept for GOT in the first place.
‘I had a toy castle set up near my bed, made of tin, and the courtyard was just big enough for two turtle tanks, and I had five or six turtles who lived in the castle,’ he explained. ‘I decided they were knights, lords and kings, so I started writing this whole fantasy series about the turtle kingdom and the king of the turtles.’
On the whole topic of A Song of Ice and Fire’s body count, he added: ’And these particular turtles seemed to die very easily. I don’t think it was really a very good environment for them. Sometimes they would escape and you would find them under the refrigerator a month later, all dead.
‘So my turtles kept dying, which was very distressing but it also made me think, “Why are they dying? Well, they are killing each other in sinister plots.” I started writing this fantasy about who was killing who, and the wars for succession. So Game of Thrones originally began with turtles, I think.’
So, there you go. Best GOT Easter egg ever? Quite possibly!
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