George R.R. Martin Says Fans Have Guessed Game of Thrones Ending

Author George R.R. Martin is still working on the final books in his series A Song of Ice and Fire, which of course spawned the wildly successful HBO television series Game of Thrones. Many fans spend time speculating about the ending of the books and the series, but Martin recently revealed that a few fans have already figured it out!

Martin spoke at the Edinburgh International Literary Festival and was asked about the fan theories regarding the ending of the show and his novel series. A Song of Ice and Fire will likely feature two more books, The Winds of Winter and A Dream of Spring, neither of which have release dates yet. The author revealed he knows which major characters will survive and which will die in the final two books, though he has yet to figure out everything with regard to the minor characters.

In his remarks, Martin revealed some fans have already pieced together the ending.

"I've wrestled with [the issue of fan speculation online], because I do want to surprise my readers," he said, according to The Telegraph. "I hate predictable fiction as a reader, I don't want to write predictable fiction. I want to surprise and delight my reader and take them in directions they didn't see coming...At least one or two readers had put together the extremely subtle and obscure clues that I'd planted in the books and came to the right solution. So what do I do then? Do I change it? I wrestled with that issue, and I came to the conclusion that changing it would be a disaster, because the clues were there. You can't do that, so I'm just going to go ahead. Some of my readers who don't read the boards, which thankfully there are hundreds of thousands of them, will still be surprised and other readers will say, 'See, I said that four years ago. I'm smarter than you guys.'"

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