Amazon's Rings of Power - General Discussion Thread (SPOILERS)

[terry78]

I assume he does the Gollum voice.

 

[Loden Greatstorm]

Anyone else slightly disappointed that we havent gotten set pics?

 

[Silvermoth]

Maybe for the best because there’s always that one guy that sees an extra with a coffee cup and says “Baaar they’re not staying true to the original vision”

 

[THORin]

Anyone else slightly disappointed that we havent gotten set pics?

I was hoping we might get something for Hobbit Day, but no such luck. I’m so impatient for a first look!

 

[Pennywise]

Morfydd Clark: "'The Lord Of The Rings' TV show is mind-blowing"

COVID-19 has been tough on us all. Imagine, though, that instead of bingeing Friends on the sofa surrounded by friends or family, your lockdown was spent 12,000 miles from home in the company of complete strangers. That’s been rising actress Morfydd Clark’s reality for the past six months.

“It was very clear that I needed to stay here,” she says via Zoom from New Zealand, where she’s been filming Amazon’s megabucks new Lord Of The Rings series since February. “I’ve certainly been homesick, but it’s a really small cross to bear in comparison to what’s going on at the moment.”

Loneliness is something lots of us have dealt with since coronavirus restrictions came into effect – but Morfydd, who’s been isolated on the other side of the world for much of 2020, is trying to look on the bright side.

“It’s definitely strange going into lockdown with people that you have just started working with,” she says of her new Lord of the Rings support network. “But I think we all treat each other like family. Sure, you’ll occasionally get annoyed by people, but you still like them… because you don’t have a choice. I think this time I’ve spent with the cast will be useful on set. But I obviously worry that the audience will be able to see in our eyes that certain sections were filmed pre-lockdown and some afterwards.”

Despite a lack of actual contact, Morfydd’s friends and family back home have played an important part in getting her ready for the role of Young Galadriel – a character made iconic by Cate Blanchett in the original trilogy. “My friends love [The Lord Of The Rings]. Whenever they came back home to Cardiff from university and I came back from drama school, we’d hibernate in one house and watch all three films back-to-back,” she says. “But, when I told them I’d been hired for the series, they were like: ‘Oh, really? We’d been so looking forward to that but now it is just going to be you in it we won’t be able to enjoy it as much.’ That was very sobering to hear!”

Regardless of what her friends might now feel, the hype around the series is off the charts. Amazon has already confirmed the series will take place long before the events of Peter Jackson’s movies, so there won’t be much room for star cameos. But Elijah Wood (who played Frodo Baggins) has already thrown his hat into the ring, telling IndieWire that he’d love to appear.

“Those films are so iconic for me. I’ve actually been suppressing what I know about the Tolkien universe since I came out here,” says Clark. “I honestly just love the idea that Elijah Wood has said that because I am such a fan. I’d love everyone to do a cameo in it. It’s so nice to hear support for the series from someone like that.”

It’s comments like these, and Clark’s chilled-out vibe, that make you wonder if she fully realises how famous this gig might make her. “In many ways, I’m at my happiest and most fulfilled doing more intimate projects like Saint Maud,” she says, unaware that it may be difficult to go back to that world after donning her first set of pointy ears. “I feel like I’ve got my fix of the massive stuff by doing Lord of the Rings. The amount of [people working] on this show is continually mind-blowing. One guy’s job consists just of seeing how dust reacts to footsteps and breath! That would never have even crossed my mind before. Other than something like Marvel, I don’t think things could get much bigger than this.”

 

[Loden Greatstorm]

I was hoping we might get something for Hobbit Day, but no such luck. I’m so impatient for a first look!

You and me both my friend.

 

[Pennywise]

Amazon’s ‘The Lord Of The Rings’ Resumes Production In New Zealand – Deadline

 

[THORin]

By the way, nobody fall for the latest The One Ring.net “exclusive” scoop. I watched/suffered through their livestream last night, and they gave absolutely no evidence to back up their hyperbolic claim that Bad Robot has been assigned with taking over production. They seem to have gotten this idea through a string of assumptions: because they decided the series pilot is going in for reshoots, they’ve decided it’s all in chaos and that Amazon is looking for other production companies to help, so they seem to have just randomly selected Bad Robot as the best contender. Once again, just don’t believe anything they describe as a “scoop”, because it’s usually not.

 

[TheVileOne]

By the way, nobody fall for the latest The One Ring.net “exclusive” scoop. I watched/suffered through their livestream last night, and they gave absolutely no evidence to back up their hyperbolic claim that Bad Robot has been assigned with taking over production. They seem to have gotten this idea through a string of assumptions: because they decided the series pilot is going in for reshoots, they’ve decided it’s all in chaos and that Amazon is looking for other production companies to help, so they seem to have just randomly selected Bad Robot as the best contender. Once again, just don’t believe anything they describe as a “scoop”, because it’s usually not.

The One Ring Dot Net reported that this show was going to be young Aragorn series. I haven't forgotten that. They are as bad as Mike Zeroh at this point.

 

[TheVileOne]

Morfydd Clark: "'The Lord Of The Rings' TV show is mind-blowing"

It's hard for me to get excited about this show when we still know virtually nothing about it.

 

[Boom]

Yeah my excitement is admittedly waning.

 

[Albright]

bah...TORN

 

[Iceman]

I’m not thinking about this too much now but I’ll definitely be excited when it comes or we see footage.

 

[Iceman]

By the way, nobody fall for the latest The One Ring.net “exclusive” scoop. I watched/suffered through their livestream last night, and they gave absolutely no evidence to back up their hyperbolic claim that Bad Robot has been assigned with taking over production. They seem to have gotten this idea through a string of assumptions: because they decided the series pilot is going in for reshoots, they’ve decided it’s all in chaos and that Amazon is looking for other production companies to help, so they seem to have just randomly selected Bad Robot as the best contender. Once again, just don’t believe anything they describe as a “scoop”, because it’s usually not.

Thanks for the heads up.

 

[THORin]

Fellowship Of Fans, a YouTube channel that has been really reliable covering the show (they got some of the first behind-the-scenes photos), theorizes that Augustus Prew has possibly joined the cast. He's been in New Zealand since at least September, pretty much the entire LOTR cast follows him and vice versa, and they interact on social media regularly. Nothing official, obviously, but still worth noting. There's a lot of speculation that he's playing Gil-galad (he has a bit of a resemblance to Mark Ferguson, who played Gil-galad in the Fellowship prologue scenes).

 

[Enriquespy]

Baby Aragorn?

eh.

 

[Pennywise]

‘The Lord Of the Rings’: Lenny Henry Among 20 New Cast Additions – Deadline

Amazon Studios has confirmed twenty additional cast members who have joined the streamer’s The Lord Of The Rings TV series, an adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy novels. Production on the sprawling drama, which was interrupted by the coronavirus pandemic, is currently underway in New Zealand. It resumed in late September.

Top British comedian Lenny Henry, Ozark andWestworld‘s Peter Mullan, Lloyd Owen (You, Me and the Apocalypse), Augustus Prew (CBS’s Pure Genius), The LOTR movie franchise’s Peter Tait,Benjamin Walker (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter), Cynthia Addai-Robinson (Arrow, Power) and Simon Merrells (Spartacus: War of the Damned) are among the new additions, along with Maxim Baldry, Ian Blackburn, Kip Chapman, Anthony Crum, Maxine Cunliffe, Trystan Gravelle, Thusitha Jayasundera, Fabian McCallum, Geoff Morrell, Alex Tarrant, Leon Wadham and Sara Zwangobani.

No information is provided about the characters the actors are playing; Owen is believed to play Loda, an earthy man.

Of the 20, Blackburn, Chapman, Crum, Cunliffe, Tait, Tarrant and Wadham are local actors from New Zealand, while the rest hail from Australia, Sri Lanka, the UK and the US.

The world that J.R.R. Tolkien created is epic, diverse, and filled with heart,” said series’ executive producers/showrunners J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay. “These extraordinarily talented performers, hailing from across the globe, represent the culmination of a multi-year search to find brilliant and unique artists to bring that world to life anew. The international cast of Amazon’sThe Lord of the Rings series is more than just an ensemble. It is a family. We are thrilled to welcome each of them to Middle-earth.”

The 20 new LOTR cast members join the 15 announced by Amazon in January.: Robert Aramayo, Owain Arthur, Nazanin Boniadi, Tom Budge, Morfydd Clark, Ismael Cruz Córdova, Ema Horvath, Markella Kavenagh, Joseph Mawle, Tyroe Muhafidin, Sophia Nomvete, Megan Richards, Dylan Smith, Charlie Vickers, and Daniel Weyman.

 

[Boom]

And we still have zero clue what this show's about?

 

[Pennywise]

And we still have zero clue what this show's about?

Yup.

 

[THORin]

Great casting announcements. Obviously we knew about Merrells, Baldry, and Prew, but the rest are new. I’m happy to see a lot of diversity too.

 

[Silvermoth]

Aye sir Lenny Henry! Love him! He’s a living legend

 

[Schlosser85]

 

[Albright]

2021? awesome if true

 

[Chesterfield]

Cynthia Addai-Robinson joins the cast

 

[Deck Rickard]

Well, she can’t be worse on this then she was in Arrow. So there’s that.