We’ve also got exclusive episodic and behind-the-scenes shots for season 2 of Prime Video’s adaptation of J.R.R.
Tolkien’s Middle-earth mythology.
Welcome back to Middle-earth.
The cast of ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ season 2.Sophy Holland
She is, after all, destined to wield one of those titular rings of power.
“She’s at a crossroads,” Clark says.
“She’s had to let go of this idea of herself as being magnanimous and completely wise.
‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ star Morfydd Clark.Sophy Holland
She doesn’t know.”
The revelation that he was actually Sauron in disguise the whole time has shaken her.
She has really made a fool of herself, Clark says.
Charlie Vickers and Morfydd Clark.Sophy Holland
Hes been very successful at destabilizing his enemies.
But they’re always on each other’s minds.
She symbolizes good and he symbolizes evil.
Sophy Holland
Charlie Vickers and Charles Edwards
Sauron has exchanged one elf companion for another.
Celebrimbor has the ability, and Sauron has the vision, Edwards says.
Charles Edwards
Why would a wise and knowledgeable elf like Celebrimbor work alongside Sauron?
Sophy Holland
Well, for one thing, Sauron has taken on another disguise as Annatar, the Lord of Gifts.
But he also plays into Celebrimbor’s ambition to accomplish something worthy of his legendary lineage.
His ambition has been eating away at him, Edwards says.
Sophy Holland
Instead of trying to guess who Sauron is, were now inside his mind, Vickers says.
In the past, the camera would cut away from him when he had his private thoughts.
Now the camera follows him through those thoughts.
Sophy Holland
The audience is in on it, which I think is quite fun.
“That schism between family and duty is just getting bigger and bigger for him,” Owen says.
Cynthia Addai-Robinson
As the daughter of the recently deceased Numenorean king, Miriel is accustomed to power.
Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Lloyd Owen, and Maxim Baldry.Sophy Holland
But her blindness was a new challenge this season, for both the character and the actor.
“I had to use my other senses to read the room and feel the space.
That was a really interesting challenge for me.”
Sophy Holland
Lloyd Owen
It’s like he’s got faith and she’s an atheist, Owen says.
Thats tearing his heart apart.
In the process he’ll meet some familiar faces from Middle-earth, both good (the Ents!)
Sophy Holland
and bad (look out for Shelob!).
Maxim’s awesome and can do anything, co-showrunner Patrick McKay says.
When you have an actor like that, you want to throw him a fastball.
Sophy Holland
Its something she’s actually craved for a while, Kavenagh says.
Not necessarily being away from her family, but more just being granted the freedom to explore the unknown.
“I love her to bits.
Sophy Holland
She’s a sweetheart and a clown, but very talented as well.
So I’m a lucky boy.”
Shes a very ambitious woman, Nomvete says.
Owain Arthur and Sophia Nomvete.Sophy Holland
The throne is in her sights.
But Prince Durin thinks it sounds a little too good to be true.
Like Theoden and otherLord of the Ringscharacters, Celebrimbor longs to match the accomplishments of his ancestors.
Sophy Holland
“She knows that she is on very shaky ground,” Addai-Robinson says.
InThe Rings of Power, she gets her hands dirty.
Isildur alone
One day, Isildur will cut the One Ring from Sauron’s finger.
Sophy Holland
For now, he’s just trying to survive to adulthood.
The new rings of power will exaggerate those problems.
“So she’s quite up and down in her views.
Charlie Vickers as Sauron in ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ season 2.Ben Rothstein/Prime Video
One minute she’s like, Yes, we need the rings!
Then she’s like, Oh no, but the ring!”
The sense of exploration was as true for the actors as the characters.
Charles Edwards as Celebrimbor and Amelia Kenworhty as Mirdania in ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ season 2.
Noris excitement about being somewhere new was mirroring our own excitement to be in Tenerife," Kavenagh says.
“It was really helpful for me in channeling that energy of being in a new place.
We designed an almost cathedral-like space, production designer Kristian Milsted says of the forge set.
Cynthia Addai-Robinson as Queen Regent Míriel in ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ season 2.Ben Rothstein/Prime Video
Elves have an art nouveau sensibility, thats been established beautifully before.
But we took that further and added brutalist elements to that space so that it doesnt look industrial.
We made it more ecclesiastical, like a temple of science.
Robert Aramayo as Elrond and Morfydd Clark as Galadriel in ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ season 2.Ben Rothstein/Prime Video
But in the process, he learns some important lessons that will help him achieve his destiny.
Once she becomes blind, Elendil has to be her eyes, Owen says.
So he sees and informs, she interprets what he sees, and thus Elendil learns.
Morfydd Clark as Galadriel in ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ season 2.Ross Ferguson/Prime Video
This is a leader in training for where we ultimately have to get him.
Maxim Baldry as Isildur in ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ season 2.Ross Ferguson/Prime Video
Owain Arthur as Prince Durin IV in ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ season 2.Ross Ferguson/Prime Video
Sophia Nomvete as Princess Disa in ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ season 2.Ben Rothstein/Prime Video
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Behind-the-scenes shot of the harfoot and stoors characters filming ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ season 2.Ross Ferguson/Prime Video
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