From the Empire Spoiler Special Film Podcast, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 1 finale (LIVE) ft. Patrick McKay, JD Payne, Morfydd Clark, Charlie Vickers. October 19, 2022
This is an imperfect transcript of a bit of this interview.
Charlie Vickers: I don’t see it as a strictly king and queen thing. I love the reflection bit but ultimately if she had said yes, he’s very much the king and she’s like his sidekick in terms of ruling.
(JD or Patrick): It’s not like a marriage proposal.
Morfydd Clark: (amused) How dare you.
Morfydd: I think also, there’s a saying in Welsh, hope is a safe anchor, and that is something that is in all of Tolkien. Hope has to be nurtured. Galadriel has stopped nurturing her hope. The bit where I get really cross with Sauron on the raft where he manipulates her but then he tries to make her despair. That’s like when you become truly lost but when you need others to get you out of it.
Charlie: And I think that’s the thing. (speaks of getting sent the WH Auden piece on Good and Evil in LOTR). The difference when it gets to evil, affection goes out the window. And you see this relationship and you see affection, but in the end it’s only for personal gain. It’s a fear as well. The whole season you see them working together and they have this – we like to call it a cosmic connection not romantic. Although I got in a lot of trouble for saying that it wasn’t romantic yesterday because of the shipping~. And I think it’s very clear on the raft that he’s just using her for his personal gain rather than any sort of love and affection to her.
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