The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power star Morfydd Clark analyzes her Galadriel and her path to becoming the character we all know.

The awaited prequel series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power has finally landed on Amazon Prime Video, and has shown us characters very different from how we used to see them, starting with Galadriel. And now Morfydd Clark explains the creative path that led her to provide her interpretation of the famous character.

“I knew The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, but I had never really delved into The Simarillion,” Morfydd Clark told Variety. “I had no idea what he had done before. But there is a part where Tolkien describes Galadriel tying his hair into a braided crown on his head before going into battle, and I weighed in at that point ‘Wow, this opens up so many possibilities’ “.

“Then Tolkien changed his mind over time about Galadriel, which makes it even more interesting. I became obsessed with thoughts like ‘Why did Tolkien need to make Galadriel be exactly what he was at that point?’. And it is. as if he had fallen in love with her a little more, I think, as the years went on, so there is a certain fluidity in that character, “continued the actress.

But in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power we are given a rather different image of Galadriel than we were used to …

“I would say she earned her serenity hard. I don’t think she could have reached those levels of wisdom without going through everything she’s been through,” Clark comments. “She actually explains how wisdom goes hand in hand with a loss of innocence, which for me is a really good thing to rediscover. Why how young can you be when you are still thousands of years old? So I reflected on lost innocence. in that time frame “.

And again, he adds in conclusion: “The Elves in the Third Age have evolved considerably. The Elves in the First Age are really confusing, they deceive each other, they fight with each other … They are the history of Middle-earth, so they are in And it’s been really interesting for all of us who play canonical characters to be able to explore how they came to be the ones we’ve known so far. “

The first two episodes of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power are now available on Amazon Prime Video.