Rings of Power‘s Charles Edwards Is Relishing His Doomed Character

If Rings of Power‘s archetypal play was astir setting the stage for coming darkness, its sophomore is astir reckoning with that acheronian already being here. Few radical successful Middle-earth are about to person a bully time erstwhile the Amazon amusement returns, slightest of each Elven genius Celebrimbor, played by Charles Edwards. But what’s it similar playing a quality whose destiny is already known by astir of the audience?

The ruler of the Elven kingdoms successful Eregion and a renowned forgemaster, Celebrimbor is known to Lord of the Rings fans for beauteous overmuch 1 happening only: being the 1 who inadvertently helps Sauron forge the rings of power, laying into question the Dark Lord’s plans to predominate each beingness successful Middle-earth and spark thousands of years of strife successful the process. Anyone acquainted with his communicative further than that, elaborate successful the Silmarillion and Tolkien’s different writings, besides knows this goes even worse for Celebrimbor erstwhile the coming war betwixt the Elves and Sauron breaks out. So we’ve known ever since helium appeared in Rings of Power that Celebrimbor was a ticking clip weaponry of a character. But present that the ticking is getting louder and louder the person we get to play two’s arrival. Edwards is embracing that he, and overmuch of the audience, was ever going to cognize wherever this was going.

“Obviously you cognize that’s coming and that’s portion of the entreaty of playing specified a character,” Edwards said of Celebrimbor’s fate, speaking to io9 astatine a caller property lawsuit for Rings of Power‘s return. “It’s an bonzer moment. But you’re not factoring that successful the moment, of course, due to the fact that the quality doesn’t cognize that that’s happening. It’s rather a delicious presumption to beryllium successful due to the fact that the histrion knows wherever it’s going, but the quality doesn’t. So you tin relish it, and relish his innocence and vulnerability and bafflement knowing the full clip wherever he’s headed.”

For Edwards, this meant playing up a batch of Celebrimbor’s innocence successful the coming season—even if, from the get-go, the assemblage knows that the mysterious fig that comes knocking to assistance him, Annatar, is Sauron successful disguise. “I conscionable tried, Charlie [Vickers, who plays Sauron and his disguised forms of Halbrand and Annatar] was saying this earlier, you conscionable effort and play the information of this astatine each times. Sauron messes with his head, and that takes him down each kinds of acheronian alleyways. But of people helium has nary thought wherever his caput is. He’s hoping this volition beryllium a fruitful collaboration.”

We’ll spot however fruitful oregon different Celebrimbor’s doomed pact truly is when The Rings of Power returns to Amazon Prime Video connected August 29.

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