It probably shouldn’t come as a huge shock that Hugo Weaving has admitted to not really feeling The Lord of the Rings movies. After all, if you were stuck in Rivendell playing Elrond the half-elven for years with lines that only ever seemed to be given to you for the purpose of haughty, eyebrow-arched exposition, while everyone else got to battle orcs and ride on giant eagles, you might be a little bit bitter too.
Discussing the new season of Tolkien prequel The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, the British actor revealed this week that he’s not seen so much as a second of the Amazon Prime Video show – nor actor Robert Aramayo’s portrayal of the younger Elrond – because he “spent too long in Middle-earth” and doesn’t “particularly want to go back there”. Speaking to Radio Times, Weaving described the part of the mystical, immortal ring bearer, which he played in all three films in Peter Jackson’s Oscar-winning fantasy trilogy as “in a funny way, not a role that I think of with the same sort of stature in my head as it might do for fans”.
