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Rings of Power’s Charles Edwards Found Celebrimbor Between the Lines
“There are only crumbs left by Tolkien in terms of his character. There is a beginning, middle, and end all in two or three sentences.”
For Edwards, this nearly season-long two-hander between him and Sauron actor Charlie Vickers was a chance to tell the story that people were looking forward to seeing: the forging of the Rings of Power. That’s an almost unheard of rarity in film or TV production, one that allowed for Celebrimbor’s terrible fall to play out as the noble elf’s world “disintegrated very naturally,” going from high fantasy to psychological horror. The only connection we were conscious of was trying to do Tolkien’s description of Celebrimbor’s death, which was that he was shot through with arrows, then hoisted onto a pole and paraded around as a banner in the ensuing war.
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