Goodbye Iron Throne, hello One Ring. Game of Thrones writer and executive-producer Bryan Cogman has joined Amazon's Lord of the Rings series as a consultant to writers JD Payne and Patrick McKay, according to Variety. This is some extremely spicy news in the wake of Thrones' divisive series finale, considering how nicely it mirrors Cogman's rise up the ranks on HBO's fantasy series. Cogman famously started out as an assistant to GOT showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, who quickly found out he had an encyclopedic knowledge of George R.R. Martin's A Song …

It's not easy being Queen. In this past Sunday's Game of Thrones, Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) continued to find politics in the North tougher than expected. Dany had some interesting, unspoken moments in the episode, like when Sansa Stark (Sophie Turner) and Jon Snow (Kit Harington) both left the hall before their Queen had exited the room, when Theon Greyjoy (Alfie Allen) greeted the queen, but then quickly addressed Sansa asking to fight for Winterfell, and of course during Sansa and Dany's interrupted clear-the-air chat. On Wednesday, GoT co-executive producer Bryan Cogman, who wrote …

Game of Thrones will return for its eighth and final season on Sunday, April 14th, and folks who have never watched an episode or people who need a refresher have been binging the hit HBO series in an attempt to be ready for the final six episodes. But if you don’t have time to watch all 67 episodes before the final season, executive producer Bryan Cogman is here to help. The writer, who has been with the show since the first season, named 21 episodes that are a must-see before jumping into Season 8. For Cogman, these are …