The new setting is pretty exciting and will give viewers a chance to get to know more about new characters and new storylines. But, the Third Age was all about war and featured the entire Middle-Earth getting together to fight the evil forces of Sauron.Īlthough these events take place over thousands of years in Tolkien's original stories but are condensed for the series. Of course, the second age features war, and there will be a lot of references to that in the series. The trailers seem to suggest the same and feature a lot of shots that feel how peaceful things are in the Middle-Earth. It's the most glorious, beautiful, vibrant, colorful thing in comparison to what we've seen before,” Hovarth said during the interview. Especially for my character, who is on Númenor. You watch the movies, and everything is kind of apocalyptic almost. The reason for it being so peaceful is because the rise of Lord Sauron didn’t take place in the second age.Įma Horvath attends "The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power" press line during 2022 Comic-Con International: San Diego at Hilton Bayfront on Jin San Diego, California. Meanwhile, the show will be primarily focused on the second age, which was way more peaceful than the third age. For the uninitiated, the trilogy created by Peter Jackson focused on the third age of the Middle-Earth saga. Of course, the timeline of both titles is quite different and the show is set thousands of years before the events that took place in ‘LOTR’, but there are other significant changes as well.Įma Horvath, the actress who plays Elendi’s daughter Earien in the series, has come forward in order to explain how the Amazon series is different from Peter Jackson’s Oscar-winning trilogy. Since the show was announced, a lot of fans have been closely keeping track of the series and trying to decipher the changes between the Amazon series and Peter Jackson’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ trilogy. The political and personal are combined brilliantly here by the showrunners.Amazon’s upcoming fantasy series ‘ The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ is undoubtedly one of the highly-anticipated titles this year and continues to create a lot of buzz ahead of its premiere. Also, because Númenor is at a tipping point politically between the elvish ways and Númenórean ways, that is also reflected in the family. The turbulence that caused in the family and the external influences on Eärien that aren't present in the first little bit here - having to deal with that dynamic has been a fantastic bit of juice for this family. ![]() and Patrick have done so well with the creation of Ema's character, as well as putting into the backstory for us with the loss of their mother and my wife. There is a bit of that dynamic that is reflected in us as people together. We've lost our mother, and my character is really trying her best to fill that hole, and I think she's far too young to do that. Horvath: There is a bit of a dynamic there. Horvath: When I got off the plane, Maxim was like, "We're going to Queenstown for a bonding trip!"īaldry: Only activities! Kayaking, zip-lining - we were about to do a bungee jump, but it was too much. With production on this season lasting over a year thanks to the pandemic, how was it finding that family dynamic with that extended time? He's put certain signposts along the way towards what happened. ![]() Once you start diving into the Second Age, two thousand years before, and how rich Tolkien's imagination is, it's phenomenal. You've got a sense of this other world that's so important to those characters in The Lord of the Rings, with Aragorn - my 38th great-grandson - talking about those days. I think in our cases, with the island of Númenor, so much of that you're having back to in the books. Owen: It's an extraordinary privilege - a massive responsibility and excitement. ![]() How is it getting to join that world and add your own voices to it with The Rings of Power? ![]() įans have been familiar with Tolkien's world and lore since 1937. There's this beautiful little alleyway on the set that has elvish carved into the walls, and it's graffitied over with Númenórean, and if you know your lore, it's a very significant and sweet detail. He designed an entire alphabet for Númenórean, and I spent a lot of time writing it and learning how to write in it. Horvath: I spent quite a bit of time with Daniel Reeve, who created Bilbo Baggins' handwriting anything you see written in the show, he designed.
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