The Rings Of Power’s Morfydd Clark And Charlie Vickers On Learning Elvish And Playing LotR Video Games
“I didn't actually know who I was playing until I arrived in New Zealand,” explains Morfydd Clark. It turned out that she had been cast as Galadriel, the lead role in The Rings of Power, the latest adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s magical world. “Lots of us didn't. We just wanted to be in Middle-earth, in that world that lots of us have grown up with.”
Once she arrived, she embarked on an intense three-month training course alongside many cast members, but trained especially closely with co-star Charlie Vickers, who plays Halbrand, a human character created for the show.
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“I loved the training, it felt like being on a school trip,” she tells TheGamer. “I got to learn how to ride, I've never done that before. I learned how to sword fight, lots of climbing, swimming, and we learned how to hold our breath. It's the type of stuff you always hope that you'll get a job that will mean that you'll have to learn all this stuff, or at least one of them. And in this, it was all of them.
“We did lots of it as a group, and then we [Clark and Vickers] actually did lots of the swimming stuff together. So that was a bonding experience, because they worked us hard.”
Clark had an advantage when it came to learning Sindarin, one of the languages that the Elves speak in the series, since Tolkien based it on Welsh. However, her bilinguality both helped and hindered her language training. “The problem with it is that I have all the sounds because of Welsh, but it's so similar that ironing out those tiny little [differences] was quite difficult,” she explains. “So I was really good at the beginning and then kind of dipped.”
Part of their personal training
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