‘Lord of the Rings’ Stars Robert Aramayo and Owain Arthur Explain How They Filmed The Elf vs Dwarf Rock Breaking Battle (Video)
thewrap.comSpoiler alert! This article contains discussion of plot details from “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” Season 1, Episode 2 – “Adrift.”)As viewers came to learn in the second episode of the season, Robert Aramayo’s character, Elrond, had insulted his friend, Prince Durin IV of the dwarves, by not visiting him in two decades – a more significant amount of time for a dwarf than for the almost eternal elves.
So, after he was refused entry to the Dwarves’ home, Khazad-dûm, Elrond invoked the Rite of Sigin-tarâg, a rock breaking endurance test that if he lost, would leave him banished from their kingdom forever.Filming the scene was complex, Aramayo told TheWrap, due to the height differences between the elves and dwarves.“It was really, really, really fun.
And there [were] all kinds of different elements to that – this scale work in particular; everything had to be done in different ways.
They had to bring people who matched my world and people who matched Owain’s world in, so we were doing it and we were shooting it together, and then separately.
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