When you're watching the show, you can kick back with friends and have a drink. Or five drinks, if you're channeling Tyrion Lannister. Book fans can curl up in a chair with their book, sure, but For pretty much all the main characters in Game of Thrones, their ages were changed from the source material. In George R.R. Martin's books, the characters, especially the children, tended to be younger. This made some the brutality and cruelty they faced that much more disturbing. Understandably, the show decided to make the characters a bit Video: What Game of Thrones characters look like in the show vs the books. Game of Thrones is based on George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire novels, and while HBO has adapted some parts Season 1 Game of Thrones Differences to A Game of Thrones (First Novel). All the younger characters in the TV show have been aged-up. In the first novel, Joffrey is twelve, Robb is fourteen Ages of most of the characters in the books are quite different from the show. Arya is 9 in the book, but close to 19 in the show. Jon Snow’s age at the start of the books is 14, Kit in real vW5Lik.

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