{"id":10367,"date":"2022-10-14T08:14:19","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T08:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/uncategorized\/the-rings-of-power-cast-talk-tolkiens-legacy-fan-theories-and-more\/"},"modified":"2022-10-14T08:14:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T08:14:20","slug":"the-rings-of-power-cast-talk-tolkiens-legacy-fan-theories-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/games\/the-rings-of-power-cast-talk-tolkiens-legacy-fan-theories-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rings of Power cast talk Tolkien\u2019s legacy, fan theories, and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/the-rings-of-power-cast-talk-tolkiens-legacy-fan-theories-and-more_63491a5b870c8-1000x600.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/the-rings-of-power-cast-talk-tolkiens-legacy-fan-theories-and-more_63491a5b870c8-1000x600.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/the-rings-of-power-cast-talk-tolkiens-legacy-fan-theories-and-more_63491a5b870c8-400x240.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Benjamin Walker is a self-proclaimed Tolkien nerd. &#8220;One of the joys of this job is they pay us to read Tolkien,&#8221; the actor, who plays Elf king Gil-Galad in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power-episode-1-2-review-recap\/\"><u>The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power<\/u><\/a>, jokes as he sits down for our round table chat at New York City Comic-Con. His love of the books isn&#8217;t unique amongst the cast \u2013 during our discussions, nearly every one of the actors in attendance admits to a certain level of Tolkien fandom. That love for the source material was something they had to reckon with: do you bring established lore to your characterization of these storied beings, or go in blind in an attempt to imbue a character with more depth?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/rings-of-power-cast-interviews-tolkien-new-york-comic-con\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Walker is a self-proclaimed Tolkien nerd. &#8220;One of the joys of this job is they pay us to read Tolkien,&#8221; the actor, who plays Elf king Gil-Galad in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, jokes as he sits down for our round table chat at New York City Comic-Con. His love [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10367"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10370,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10367\/revisions\/10370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}