Fast-forward three decades and Ismael Cruz Cordova’s childhood dream, mocked by his peers and dismissed by his elders, has brought him into the centre of the frame of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power michaelidato
says, involved more than a dozen artists, including leather workers and jewellers. “Masters of their craft,” Cordova says. And then elven ears which followed the line of his nose to his cheek bone. “They felt like something I’d been born with. It was very special,” he says.
There are also a host of Australian actors in the show’s cast, including Kavenagh, Sara Zwangobani, who plays Nori’s mother Marigold Brandyfoot, Tyroe Muhafidin, who plays Bronwyn’s son Theo, and Charlie Vickers, who plays Halbrand, a human whose destiny is entwined with that of the future elf queen Galadriel.Tolkien’s world, Cordova says, allows us to explore ourselves in uniquely heroic ways.
For Payne and McKay, the task was not to interpret Tolkien’s masterwork on its own terms, but rather mine it for detail that would allow them to build a fresh take on the long arc of its history. Tolkien, who obsessed over the historic minutiae of Middle-earth, handed them a vast trove of detail, of characters like Isildur, Elendil, and Gil-galad, who are tucked away in the mythic canvas behind familiar characters like Frodo and Aragorn.
Perhaps the most complex soil in which Payne and McKay had to walk was exposing or creating hitherto unseen layers of the world, and its inhabitants. The elves, often portrayed as perfect, are seen here as at times flawed and uncertain. And the dwarves, often mired in cliches about boorishness and dank stony dungeons, are seen as deeply connected to both water and song. In a way, the series makes a provocative gamble on showing us a different side of something we think we know well.
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