THE RINGS OF POWER’S Charlotte Brändström Talks Galadriel Being in Love with Halbrand and the Final Episode

Galadriel Sauron The Rings of Power fight

In celebration of the final episodes of The Rings of Power season two, Nerdist sat down with the director of the season’s final episodes, Charlotte Brändström. Brändström spoke to us about what it’s like to direct epic battles, how […]

Robert Aramayo Talks THE RINGS OF POWER’s Finale, Elrond and Durin, and His Current Favorite Tolkien Tale

Galadriel and Elrond from The Rings of Power season 2

In celebration of The Rings of Power‘s final episodes, Nerdist had the pleasure of sitting down for a chat with Robert Aramayo, who plays the noble elf Elrond. In part one of our interview, Aramayo […]

When Sean Connery Turned Down $30 Million And 15% Of Lord Of The Rings Profits Over Creative Differences: “I Saw The…”

Sean Connery had turned down Lord of The Rings

Sean Connery had turned down Lord of The Rings(Photo Credit – Wikimedia/Netflix) Picture $30M per film and 15% of The Lord of the Rings box-office haul. But guess what? Connery turned it down, and that […]

You can learn Lord of the Rings’ Elvish — just not Tolkien’s version

J.R.R. Tolkien in 1955, sitting in a library, surrounded by books

On Nov. 29, 1931, J.R.R. Tolkien introduced the world to Middle-earth — the most important part of it, anyway. The Hobbit wouldn’t be published for six more years. The Lord of the Rings was still […]