{"id":1628939,"date":"2022-09-01T05:34:43","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T09:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1628939"},"modified":"2022-09-01T05:34:55","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T09:34:55","slug":"new-lord-of-the-rings-series-brings-a-female-story-to-the-forefront","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-lord-of-the-rings-series-brings-a-female-story-to-the-forefront\/","title":{"rendered":"New \u2018Lord of the Rings\u2019 series brings a female story to the forefront"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-lord-of-the-rings-series-brings-a-female-story-to-the-forefront%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1628939&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>By Danielle Broadway<\/p>\n<p>LOS ANGELES (Reuters) \u2013     Morfydd Clark stars in the new series \u201cThe Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power\u201d as Galadriel, an Elven warrior who wishes to stop the evil returning to the fantasy world of Middle-earth.<\/p>\n<p>The series, one of the most expensive ever made, will arrive on Amazon.com Inc\u2019s Prime Video on Friday, with new episodes based on the appendices of the original J.R.R. Tolkien novels airing weekly.<\/p>\n<p>Clark said her role as Galadriel gave her the opportunity to explore stunts that show off the power of her character behind the backdrop of a historically male-dominated society.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGender just isn\u2019t the same in Middle-earth in that I\u2019m playing a character who can physically take down any man around her,\u201d Clark said during an interview. \u201cIt was really interesting to try to embody someone with a huge amount of physical strength.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Co-executive producer Patrick McKay said Tolkien has had \u201csome of the greatest female characters in literature\u201d and Galadriel was one of the first characters the creators thought about for the new story.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImagining what her world was like and what she might have been struggling with from clues throughout the text was really a joy,\u201d McKay said.<\/p>\n<p>Trystan Gravelle who plays Pharazon shared the same sentiment and said he doesn\u2019t think there\u2019s anyone more \u201cbadass on this Earth than a woman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo see that on screen, to see Morfydd take names and take numbers like she does, is incredible,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Among others, the show stars Robert Aramayo, Ismael Cruz Cordova, Sophia Nomvete, and Nazanin Boniadi and is set during the Second Age of Middle-earth, thousands of years prior to \u201cThe Hobbit\u201d and \u201cThe Lord of the Rings\u201d films.<\/p>\n<p>The series follows both new and seasoned characters as they face the re-emergence of evil in Middle-earth and carve out legacies that will last lifetimes.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Danielle Broadway; Editing by Lincoln Feast)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/new-lord-of-the-2\/global-premiere-of-the-lord-of-the-rings-the-rings\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI7U0X9-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI7U0X9-VIEWIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/global-premiere-of-the-lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-2\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI7U0XB-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI7U0XB-VIEWIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES (Reuters) \u2013 Morfydd Clark stars in the new series \u201cThe Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power\u201d as Galadriel, an Elven warrior who wishes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1628939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1628939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1628939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1628939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1628939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}