If Rings of Energy‘s first season was about setting the stage for coming darkness, its sophomore is about reckoning with that darkness already being here. Few individuals in Center-earth are about to have a good time when the Amazon present returns, least of all Elven genius Celebrimbor, performed by Charles Edwards. However what’s it like taking part in a personality whose destiny is already identified by many of the viewers?
The ruler of the Elven kingdoms in Eregion and a famend forgemaster, Celebrimbor is thought to Lord of the Rings followers for just about one factor solely: being the one who inadvertently helps Sauron forge the rings of power, laying into movement the Darkish Lord’s plans to dominate all life in Center-earth and spark 1000’s of years of strife within the course of. Anybody accustomed to his story additional than that, detailed within the Silmarillion and Tolkien’s different writings, additionally is aware of this goes even worse for Celebrimbor when the coming war between the Elves and Sauron breaks out. So we’ve identified ever since he appeared in Rings of Energy that Celebrimbor was a ticking time bomb of a personality. However now that the ticking is getting louder and louder the nearer we get to season two’s arrival. Edwards is embracing that he, and far of the viewers, was at all times going to know the place this was going.
“Clearly that’s coming and that’s a part of the enchantment of taking part in such a personality,” Edwards stated of Celebrimbor’s destiny, chatting with io9 at a latest press occasion for Rings of Energy‘s return. “It’s a rare second. However you’re not factoring that within the second, in fact, as a result of the character doesn’t know that that’s taking place. It’s fairly a scrumptious place to be in as a result of the actor is aware of the place it’s going, however the character doesn’t. So you possibly can relish it, and relish his innocence and vulnerability and bafflement realizing the entire time the place he’s headed.”
For Edwards, this meant taking part in up a variety of Celebrimbor’s innocence within the coming season—even when, from the get-go, the audience knows that the mysterious determine that comes knocking to assist him, Annatar, is Sauron in disguise. “I simply tried, Charlie [Vickers, who plays Sauron and his disguised forms of Halbrand and Annatar] was saying this earlier, you simply attempt to play the reality of this always. Sauron messes along with his head, and that takes him down every kind of darkish alleyways. However in fact he has no thought the place his head is. He’s hoping this will likely be a fruitful collaboration.”
We’ll see how fruitful or in any other case Celebrimbor’s doomed pact actually is when The Rings of Energy returns to Amazon Prime Video on August 29.
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