Please pardon the interruption, but as someone who has never seen the show nor read the book, I have one question: why was the "A" left out of the TV series title? Meaning: the book is A Game Of Thrones, but the series is just Game of Thrones. Why did they do that?
I can't find anything online, but perhaps they wanted to differentiate the book from the series, since the series isn't just an adaptation of the first book? Alternatively, maybe they thought "Game of Thrones" sounded cleaner?