The Hunt for Gollum Star Anya Taylor-Joy Says She's About to Read the Lord of the Rings Books, but She Won't Find Her 'Lethal Elf' Character in Any of J. R. R. Tolkien's Text

Anya Taylor-Joy says she’s astir to work the Lord of the Rings books arsenic she embarks upon her ain travel done Middle-earth, having been formed successful The Hunt for Gollum.

The Furiosa and Super Mario Galaxy Movie prima plays an elf named Seren, a caller quality created for the upcoming prequel from Gollum histrion Andy Serkis. Seren is described arsenic "a Sindar Elf of the Woodland Realm" and "a trusted and lethal cause of King Thranduil (Lee Pace),” and it’s the connection “lethal” that Taylor-Joy is peculiarly fond of.

Speaking to Variety, Taylor-Joy said that successful her younker she had decided that she could beryllium either a Lord of the Rings oregon Harry Potter fan, not both, truthful lone came to ticker the Peter Jackson movies during the COVID-19 pandemic. She present plans to work J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings books, though, which is astir apt a decent outcry fixed she’s acceptable to prima successful a Lord of the Rings movie.

“I’m astir to work the books now, actually,” Taylor-Joy said. “So arsenic a child, I had a misguided thought that you could lone beryllium a Harry Potter instrumentality oregon a Lord of the Rings fan. Nobody told maine that. I conscionable came up with that connected my own. Luckily, passim COVID, I past watched each of ‘Lord of the Rings,’ and… turns retired you tin emotion both, and you should.”

Without giving thing distant astir her relation successful The Hunt for Gollum, Taylor-Joy added: “It’s truthful fun. I mean, if my tombstone tin accidental ‘Lethal Elf,’ I consciousness similar I did a bully occupation connected this planet. So yeah, I’m excited.”

The instauration of Seren for The Hunt for Gollum has surely got Lord of the Rings aficionados talking. Reacting to the news, galore fans person commented that Seren's relation sounds akin to Tauriel — the quality played by Lost and Ant-Man prima Evangeline Lilly successful Peter Jackson's Hobbit movies — who was besides an elven adjutant for Thranduil, arsenic good arsenic being 1 of that trilogy's astir arguable additions.

The Hunt for Gollum is based connected a play lone mentioned concisely successful The Lord of the Ring, and depicts Gollum's whereabouts anterior to the events of The Fellowship of the Ring. At this time, Gandalf, Aragorn, and Sauron's forces each question the Ring of Power, and we’ll get to spot much of Gollum’s root story.

This week it emerged that The Hunt for Gollum volition digitally de-age immoderate of its characters utilizing instrumentality learning and AI. Elijah Wood and Ian McKellen reprise their iconic roles of Frodo and Gandalf implicit 25 years aft The Fellowship of the Ring came out, truthful the tech volition beryllium utilized to marque them look younger adjacent than they appeared successful the 2001 classic.

The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum hits theaters connected December 17, 2027. The Lord of the Rings: Shadows of the Past, co-written by Stephen Colbert, is besides successful the works.

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