We spoke w/ TheRingsofPower's Charles Edwards about Celebrimbor’s backstory & being obsessed with Tolkien as a child.
From showrunners JD Payne & Patrick McKay, the Amazon Studios multi-season drama series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is set in the Second Age of Middle-earth’s history, thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings and at a time when a terrifying villain called Sauron is looking to conquer the kingdoms, defeat the heroes, and gain control over all life.
CHARLES EDWARDS: I know. And I was obsessed with it all when I was a kid. Everyone obviously talks about the Peter Jackson movies, but when I was little, I had the animated Ralph Bakshi version from 1978. That was my total obsession, at the time. So, to be returning to this world, you walk on set, and of course, the little nine-year-old in you starts jumping up and down and remembering the excitement when you first encountered Tolkien. To be involved in it now is really very special.
EDWARDS: As I said, there’s a lot of secrecy. Once I found out who the character was, I knew he had a story arc within Tolkien, so that is him. But for those that don’t know what becomes of him, I don’t tell them. And for those that know him, they know what happens to him. I would hope and assume that’s the vague direction we’re going in.
It’s clear that there’s such attention to detail paid with this series that, as the audience, we’ll never even see it all or know about all of it.Is there a detail, with your costumes or with that set, that most stands out for you? EDWARDS: I think those two are tied together. His ambition is to surpass everything that he’s ever done, creatively. It’s an unsatisfied, frenzied pursuit of something as yet seemingly unattainable, just to come up with something that is going to be the be-all-end-all to absolutely crown his career as he sees it. That is also his vulnerability, in that it makes him slightly pause at a crossroads. If he pauses too long, something’s going to come along and trip him up. That’s where he is.
When you do a project like this, you might think you know what you’re getting yourself into, but sometimes you just have to jump into the deep end. How did the first day of filming compare to the last day, at the end of the season? Do you feel like you have more of a sense of ownership of the character by the end?
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