'The Rings of Power' Comic-Con 2024 Interviews | Charlie Vickers, Charles Edwards And Sam Hazeldine

[@wanneo.3235]

They are all amazing actors! I'm so happy we got to experience Sam Hazeldine as Adar

[@TertuNdokosho]

Ugh I’m obsessed with Sam/ Adar. His arc is absolutely the one that caught my attention. He was an interesting character in season 1 already because the LoTR universe was the only story with orc in it that didn’t really show us an orc society/ background - and Adar finally gave us that. I loved the first actor but Sam is the cherry on the cake for that character. Definitely my favorite character in the entire Tolkienverse

[@marcellanascimento2491]

@@TertuNdokosho I'm obsessed too! ☝😩 He's perfect and I'm sure, I can't keeping watching the 3rd season, without him! 😭😭 He must come back!!

[@annabizaro-doo-dah]

​@@marcellanascimento2491 Me three. There's a whole army of us that want our Daddy back😢

[@astraeacreates]

I’m late to this, but Adar was the only character who captured me, whose story stuck with me, who I wanted to see more of.

[@КатеринаКоркова]

О, он великолепен. И ещё интересно- в первом, и во втором сезоне актёры такие разные, но ни про одного из них не скажешь "он сыграл хуже". Каждый сыграл по-своему, со своими особенностями и со своей харизмой, но оба сделали это прекрасно. 🥰

[@ryankwon8785]

It’s funny how he signed up just to play Halbrand and is later told he would play Sauron after filming episode 2. Biggest WTF moment.

[@SlayerSeraph]

This actually really contributed to his character believability and creditability both in story world and for the viewers - when the actor believes he's Halbrand - so does the viewer - later that created the basis even after he knew

[@ryankwon8785]

@@SlayerSeraph Charlie Vickers nailed Sauron and he must be having the time of his life playing the main antagonist. The first official actor for Sauron is a title worthy for him.

[@annabizaro-doo-dah]

@@ryankwon8785 There's absolutely no way he wasn't aware he was playing Sauron. Not least the faces he pulls when speaking lines as Halbrand that only Sauron would speak. That whole thing is a publicity ruse.

[@ebrenalmodo7156]

The actor, who plays Adar, is a real talent! ❤

[@modernoverman]

People trash this show for reasons I still don't understand. Amazing cast, production, and story.

[@SeaMistLights]

Those who have issues are primarily related to the adaption not following the lore. There are made up characters and storylines and they are mixing up the timeline in odd ways. While I adore Tolkien, and can see the changes and don’t really care for them, I am still enjoying the show for what it is mostly. The books will always exist and will always be definitive. 👍🏻

[@peloquin5652]

because its ANTI-TOLKIEN woke garbage!

[@AmyBrueckman]

@@SeaMistLights As someone who also loves the lore and still likes RoP, it's nice to see a sane take in the comments for once!

[@SeaMistLights]

@@AmyBrueckman I feel we are few and far between, my friend. There are LOTS of angry people out there. But I see a lot of lore woven into the story, even if it's not overt and I kinda love that. You can tell they know the material very well. I may not love the primary changes and storylines all the time, but it's fun to see the nods and winks to those who are paying attention. ;)

[@yoonahkang7384]

Because they are racist and because it doesnt feel exactly as the jackson movies abd they think those movies are the "official" thing forever and ever (I love them btw), because they think theres only a way to film anything middle earth related. They wont bear another director's view because they are childish and think they must be given what they want, like babies when they cry for milk. People are tiny minded. Not even the lotr movies are exactly like the books, but they dont know because they havent read the books and yet they complain anyway. I bet they think arwen was the one who took frodo to rivendell

[@ines_ramos]

Charlie Vickers is 🔥🔥 and I'm here for it.

[@notarealbanker]

😂 SAME

[@dannyj2571]

I just realised he's a fellow Melbournian. wow

[@sarahahmed5806]

Terrific show! Takes a while to grow on you, rewatching it makes you appreciate it more.. so many details to take in! Great in terms of character development. Sauron has been one of the most interesting character so far and Charlie Vickers is killing it!

[@UliaSamsonova]

Sam's voice >>>>>

[@eskaweeks]

I know, eh?

[@mishalee8083]

This was a great interview! I'm loving season 2 so far, and they were right, I'm super excited to watch the Annatar / Celebrimbor scenes and I love the direction they took with it.

[@marcellanascimento2491]

Adar 😍😍.. Please, Sam, come back in the 3rd season!!

[@matiasdevaglia4541]

I enjoyed season 1, though I have to admit there were some script and pacing issues. The last trailer for season 2 is truly impressive and I can't wait to submerge myself again in the world they've created.

[@miimakakku3722]

as far as i have understood they are picking up the pace for season 2, things might go by quite fast.

[@ilkemagic7721]

@@miimakakku3722 aaand, they still managed to make it slow af. again all the big actions have left to last episodes

[@ALT1308_]

​@@ilkemagic7721It takes time to explain and allow a story to role in a certain pace, lol.

[@ilkemagic7721]

@@ALT1308_ nope they had enough time to manage things smoothly, its just bad writing

[@eyeoftherose09]

Really nice questions from the interviewer, these actors are such a joy to listen to. So excited for s2!

[@akrebs6816]

Rings of Power is awesome, and the new season was just incredible. Everyone did a great job! Can't wait for season 3

[@emjbelle]

Great interview, thank you! Great show and the cast are wonderful

[@DragonHeart613]

Great Show huh? 🤦

[@deathswitch2404]

​@@DragonHeart613 Other people enjoying something doesn't hurt you, man. Don't be like this.

[@okultusrexus3660]

@@DragonHeart613 Yeah what joy are you getting from spoiling other people's fun? Move on man, don't like it don't watch, most of us love it and are super excited about this season.

[@RedditThree]

i was a hater, now hooked up but for sauron halbrand galadriel only scene lol what a cutie charlie is

[@monikahanus9183]

If someone really listened to what Halbrand said throughout season 1, I mean really listened, they would have figured it out.

[@lila7-7]

As soon as he wanted to become a smithie in Numenor… Aha! Aulë’s apprentice, indeed.

[@Concetta20]

I didn’t think I’d be saying this after season one, but I can’t wait for season 3!!!!

[@evildoesnotsleep-x2b]

Can't wait for season 2!

[@OliverHollingdale]

I can XD

[@Ayavik]

@@OliverHollingdale 🤡 you are under trop itw , maybe don’t watch

[@dumiweerasinghae6462]

omg.... sam/adar i want to see him in season 3 ⭐❤️

[@DavidAlvesWeb]

we found the ENT WIVES!!!!

[@cielthefangirl2876]

im in love with them all

[@nataliamichalak1855]

AWWWW, CHARLIE!! ❤

[@marcognudi664]

Many are excited, haters cry more!

[@peloquin5652]

oh yeah 385 likes by 9359 visits! sooo many ... they should give the wasted billions of dollars to africas hungry children

[@marcognudi664]

@@peloquin5652 There are plenty of great videos on KZbin with a similar like/view ratio, people who like what they see don't always push the like button

[@anniebiggs1217]

I loved all the episodes from season 1 and 2 the actors did a great job can’t wait to see what happens with season 3 😊

[@shineetaemin]

yesss charlie

[@aobane841]

I first thought he was the Witch King of Angmar, but then I caught on.

[@Musemay_ta]

Какие же классные актеры! Я очень люблю Толкина, перечитала все книги, письма и приложения, не понимаю почему многие ругают сериал!? Отличная адаптация! Жду 3-й сезон!

[@christianefiorito3204]

Most people new from the first line. Sauron is a shapeshifter: Looks can be deceiving! Almost all book fans knew

[@TravelsTTG]

You know most people have not even cracked a Tolkien book let alone the lost tales or Silmarillion.

[@KevinUchihaOG]

@@TravelsTTG alot of people know about LOTR lore even if they havent read the books. Myself included, ive learned alot from playing LOTR games and also from LOTR lore videos and LOTR wiki, etc. Its a very big and vast world, its fun just learning lore from it.

[@Ayavik]

@@KevinUchihaOG lol playing the game doesn’t make you a Tolkien expert

[@KevinUchihaOG]

@@Ayavik when did i say i was?

[@dalelinney8437]

I wondered it near the beginning, but then knew 100% when he looked at the forge in Numenor. Student of Aule.

[@michellel-jones4649]

Don’t understand the hate for this. Yes, there are characters which weren’t in the books, but then Peter Jackson shifted characters around in his films. Little difference. Tolkien wouldn’t had Arwen riding out to help Aragorn out, yet there she was.

[@diana6echo]

Exactly Jackson's movies are as much fanart as this show, I remember ppl were pissed they didn't include Tom Bombadil 😅

[@lucretialana6936]

Sam awesome 😊😊😊

[@duongbuiha8251]

Sauron already have the one ring in this interview :/ that not gonna end well.

[@FightNight4545]

Charlie is charming. Note: I'm straight

[@dutchkel]

Cool. Charlie is charming and I'm Bi while we're identifying ourselves lol

[@liliLpG]

Thank U

[@eetee_elships]

Yayyyyyyy! Can’t wait for the next season to drop!

[@ilmanazmi8459]

Sauron😊

[@btl2171]

Halbrand saçaları uzunken yakışıklı

[@okultusrexus3660]

Haha I have a feeling 2 of the 3 will not be back "for years to come" if at all =)

[@TallisKeeton]

Osiągięcia Gandalfa przez 16 odcinków serialu : - spadł na meteorze, - spotkał hobbitów, - nauczył się mówić, - poszedł do Rhun, - znalazł Toma Bombadila, który miał go czegoś uczyć, ale nie bardzo wiadomo czego, i jak, - znalazł sobie różdżkę z kawałka uschniętego drzewa na pustyni. Osiągnięcia Isildura przez 16 odcinków serialu : - oblał egzamin na żeglarza, - pojechał na wojnę, - kumple zostawili go po bitwie na terenie po wybuchu wulkanu, nie sprawdzili czy żyje, - walczył z pająkiem, - koń go uratował, - znalazł sobie dziewczynę w lesie, - która po chwili wróciła do narzeczonego, Osiągniecia Arondira przez 16 odcinków serialu : - jako doswiadczony elfi strażnik siedzący na wieży, nie wypatrzył setek orków kopiących tunele dokoła wieży, - mieszkając w tej wieży przez dekady nie zauważył mrocznego posągu wstawionego do elfiej wieży przez jakieś mroczne moce, - nie zauważył, że cały oddział z tej wieży został uprowadzony przez orków, - miał śmiertelną dziewczynę, która zmarła, - zostawiła mu swego syna, który jest głupim i nabzdyczonym, mało pomocnym w czymkolwiek bachorem, - ubił wiele orków, - teleportował się wszędzie tam, gdzie akurat jakas postać potrzebowała łucznika, - mógł ubić wodza orków, w każdej chwili ale tego nie zrobił, - w czasie strzelania z łuku lubi robić fikołki w powietrzu, To chyba tyle :D

[@noname-JS]

Too many Comic Con interviews

[@biomagic8959]

do these people have fans?

[@marcognudi664]

They must have since you're here hating on them and have nothing better to do 😂

[@SannaM76]

They absolutely do have fans. I'm here for Sam.

[@Concetta20]

Obviously you’re not a Brit to ask that question.

[@ALT1308_]

Yes, lol.😂

[@annabizaro-doo-dah]

​@@SannaM76I think I'm in lovewith Adar 😍getting a bit weird

[@YouTubeShillApologist]

Only 37% of US viewers finished Rings of Power.

[@TravelsTTG]

Why be a sourpuss.

[@tevildo45]

Cry more

[@nataliamichalak1855]

Old info and not true

[@DragonHeart613]

​@@tevildo45That's exactly what the cast & crew did when they got totally snubbed during Award Season. Exactly what Amazon did when the season 2 trailer was completely downvoted on every one of their international YT channels.

[@ultronemperor3525]

​@@DragonHeart613they didn't, because they don't act like children or virgins

[@DragonHeart613]

They are so deluded.

[@ALT1308_]

Can you spell, lol. Not you desperately hating for attention, lol. 😊

[@TallisKeeton]

Pecunia non olet :D

[@DragonHeart613]

@TallisKeeton ?????

[@TallisKeeton]

@@DragonHeart613 its Latin - "money doesn't stink" :)

[@TallisKeeton]

poor actors - this BS does not deserve their work and effort :)

[@keyboarddancers7751]

They're all unknowns and this is a massive payday for them. They're literally paying off their mortgages and setting up their pension plans. Who wouldn't put in the work and effort for such a fabulous financial opportunity regardless of the lack of professional integrity.

[@TallisKeeton]

@@keyboarddancers7751 yes I know :)

[@TallisKeeton]

​@@keyboarddancers7751 I think that even without sticking to the books they were able to made smt of quality with such money and technology. But they hired those two idiots and let them write all this flattening, twisted nonsense. :( For example - Galadriel swimming marathon scene :D was able to be saved by a notion that she wanted to swim only to Tol Eresea island which could be near at this point of her travel, and from there she was able to hire a ship to Numenor, and from it to Middle-Earth proper. And they could add a notion - or a scene that as she was granddaughter of king of Teleri elves (sailors, fishermen, as Noldors were smiths and engineers, and Vanyars were philosphers and poets) and Ulmo (Tolkien's Poseidon) would have helped her at this point when she was alon on the ocean. Becouse she was descendant of Ulmo's fav king :) For example Arondir - his storyline could have been saved by adding a sensible background for him - a half-elf - a child of Avari father (elf) and Haradrim mother (human), who journeys with the goal to find his elvish brethren in the north after another Haradrim tribe who serves Sauron massacred his tribe :) In his journey he meets this village of ex-slaves of Sauron. The orcs invaded them, and he - as being 2000 year old elf remembering the divide between Avari elves and High elves (who migrated to Valinor (Teleri, Vanyar and Noldors, Noldors are Galadriel people) - and as old elven warrior who'd traveled for centuries he knows all the territories between Rhun on the east with Orocarni mountains with 4 eastern tribes of dwarves living there (sort of Caucasus of Middle-Earth), and the shores on the west settled by Numenorians building ports (like Minoeans of Crete and Greeks in European Mediterranean area), and so he knows about Numenorian Pelargir port on Anduin river (but in the show its Bronwyn who tells about Pelargir - how can Bronwyn knows it ? she is showed as totaly a villager without knowledge of any other lands ? ) :D and so he takes these people on the journey west under the protection of Numenor and after many adventures (with wolves, and orcs and hunting and trading and braving rivers and avallanches), while Arondir's team of elves stayed in this little fortress to engage this invading orcs by their tactics of traps and partisan war) and so they reach Pelargir but from there Arondir goes north to Laurelindorenan (Lorien before the rule of Galadriel there) becouse he is a lonely elf and not as young - he had seen much around - and so he needs to find a leader of elves who can give him another purpose in life - if not Arondir will succumb to despair and as elves do can die out of grief (they can do it voluntary if the mortal lands or the tragedies of their life wear them too much - thats why they wanted to make Rings of Power - to be immunised from grief of watching mortality and changes for centuries and centuries but also to slow magicaly the natural mortality of their lands to make these lands more beautyful - they also wanted to make their own lands a mirror of Valinor they lost by banishment by Valars (gods), and so Arondir finds a leader in Laurelindorenan (Lorien) - Amdir king of Nandors and Laiquende (Wood elves and Green elves. Nandors are native to Middle-Earth and Laiguende went to Beleriand, settled there and returned after the fall of Beleriand peninsula to Lorien), and he befriends his son Amroth. Amdir dies in battle later and Amroth wants to sail west becouse his beloved Nimrodel wants to sail, and so Amroth resigns and - as Arondir is a messanger between the Lorien king and Galadriel in Eregion (Galadriel trying to make a great alliance exchanges letters with Moria, Lorien, Numenor, Lindon) - gives up his rule to Galadriel (not without debates from the side of his people - its about complicated relations between Wood elves (Sylvans) and Noldors (Galadriel people) and Sindars (Celeborn's people - husband of Galadriel). So Amroth has to go through some negotiation with his people and show them Galadriel and Celeborn as good candidates becouse Wood elves dont trust much the Valinoreans. But Arondir helps to negotiate between them and to exchange messages between Eregion, Moria, and Lorien (he actualy could have huge role in making this aliance as advisor and messenger). And Galadriel wants to make an alliance of all elves and most Men and dwarves. So eventualy she and Celeborn travels to Lorien and she makes it blooming and safe (from evil) with the help of her Ring, and Amroth is free to go after his Nimrodel to Valinor. But their story is sad as they died during their travel. And I would give Arondir also a mission of escorting Disa from her dwarvish tribe of Orocarni on the east to her future husband Durin. Arondir do it becouse Galadriel asks him to help her friend Durin with safe escort of princess (through half of continent) and becouse he is loyal to Amroth and Amdir so helping the allies of Lorien is his mission. And its becouse both Galadriel and Durin III (father of Durin IV in the show) want to make an alliance (Celeborn avoids the dwarves as he remembers them their share of invading his land in Beleriand (Doriath- where Celeborn and Galadriel actualy met), and so Celeborn does not like to enter Moria to shorten their way to Lorien and so he is lost for some episodes to his own adventures :) In the last episode connected with Arondir I would've showed as he escorts Nimrodel and her group of elven ledies to the ship where Amroth and his warriors await them, and Arondir dies protecting the group of elven ladies from attack of orcs or Haradrim slavers. Nimrodel dies but her friend Mithrellas is saved by wounded Arondir who escorts her to the land nearby (close to the elven port on Belfalas shore) where one of Numenorian lords Imrazor builds his fortress. Arondir protects Mithrellas until she can be saved by warriors of Imrazor, and Arondir dies upon her. The stories of Amroth and Nimrodel, and of Mithrellas and Imrazor are from the books, I just added Arondir as their helper and guardian :)

[@keyboarddancers7751]

@@TallisKeeton By contrast, Joseph Mawle who played Adar in the first season couldn't stomach remaining in the show. And also I'm very surprised to see Rory Kinnear and Ciaran Hinds joining this crew. They both have a reasonably solid track record of material behind them and I wouldn't've thought they were on the look out for a big payday.

[@TallisKeeton]

@@keyboarddancers7751 its surprising that actors of such status would like to play in such soap-opera-ish RPG fanfic for kids :D