‘The Rings of Power’ star Lloyd Owen dishes on his ‘reluctant hero’ in Prime’s ‘LOTR’ show
nypost.comPrime Video’s “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” has been a long time coming. “I read ‘The Hobbit’ when I was about 11 years old, and by the time my son got to about that age, we started reading it together as a bedtime story,” Owen, 56 (“You, Me, and the Apocalypse”) told The Post. “Tolkien’s imagination had such a powerful effect on me when I was younger, and I doubled down on reading it with my son.
So, it’s been joyous to re-read everything, and then to read everything I didn’t know was out there, properly – ‘The Silmarillion’ and all of Tolkien’s writings.“It’s been a wonderful journey of discovery and it’s very exciting to be part of it.” “The Rings of Power,” premiering Sept.
1, is set around a thousand years before the events of Peter Jackson’s “Rings” movies. Owen plays Elendil, a character from Tolkien lore who is known as a great warrior and the first King of Gondor and Arnor.
One of his sons includes Isildur (Maxim Baldry), who appeared in the prologue montage of “The Fellowship of the Ring” (as Aragorn’s ancestor who cut the Ring off of Sauron’s hand).
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