‘Recreation of Thrones’ Did Not Put together Robert Aramayo AT ALL for His ‘Rings of Energy’ Combat Scenes: “I Was Horrible”

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy Season 2 on Prime Video noticed an enormous degree up for considered one of Tolkien’s most iconic characters. Elrond (Robert Aramayo) went from being a herald to a commander, a follower to a frontrunner, and, most notably, a Rings of Energy skeptic to somebody keen to put on one to avoid wasting one other elf’s life.

**Spoilers for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy Season 2 finale, now streaming on Prime Video**

On the finish of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy Season 2 Episode 8, Galadriel (Morfydd Clark) has not solely fallen from an ideal top throughout her battle with Sauron (Charlie Vickers), however she’s additionally been stabbed with Morgoth’s crown. The elf appears to be on demise’s door. Not even the Excessive King Gil-galad (Benjamin Walker) has the ability to avoid wasting Galadriel. Nevertheless, Elrond then sees Galadriel’s ring, Nenya, and remembers how she used it to heal one other elf earlier within the story.

After an entire season of warning the opposite elves to not belief any of the Rings of Energy, for worry they have been contaminated with Sauron’s plotting, Elrond wears Nenya to avoid wasting Galadriel’s life.

“It’s an enormous journey. And I believe what he’s considering in that second, when he’s about to place it on, it’s like, ‘Effectively, right here I’m going. I’m within the recreation,’ you recognize?” Aramayo informed Decider in an interview final week. “And what does that imply? Am I in his recreation now? Is that this precisely what he desires? Am I now encircled in his energy on this means that I’m not going to have the ability to management?”

“I believe that’s what’s so cool about Elrond. I believe he’s really conscious of his limitations.”

In case some Rings of Energy viewers don’t know, Elrond is especially distinctive among the many elves as a result of he was “Half-elf.” A part of him is human. “It’s why he will get on so nicely with Durin,” Aramayo stated. “As a result of, you recognize, he understands the mortality inside him extra so than most elves. Not fully, however extra so as a result of he’s an elf.”

Aramayo additionally defined that Elrond’s human nature meant that he doesn’t possess the identical powers or talents that different elves would possibly. Nonetheless, Aramayo believes that Elrond’s best power is realizing this fact.

“He’s conscious that he doesn’t possess the talent of combating that Galadriel or [Ismael Cruz Córdova’s] Arondir does. He is aware of that, you recognize? That’s what I like about him. I believe he focuses on his strengths and he is aware of his limitations,” Aramayo stated.

“So when Sauron’s again, he received’t presume to suppose that he can simply belief these items that have been anyplace close to him as a result of he’s considering, ‘I can’t even belief myself on this second. I can’t belief the folks round me whom I’ve trusted for 100 years.’ You recognize, so it’s an actual difficult journey for him.”

Aramayo additionally revealed to Decider that understanding Elrond’s limitations influenced how he needed to depict the character’s combating type in the course of the Battle of Eregion.

“Once more, simply talking about Elrond and his limitations at this level, I didn’t need Elrond to only bust down and be capable to do the issues that Arondir can do, or the issues that Galadriel can do, or the issues that Gil-galad can do,” Aramayo stated. “I needed him to really feel fairly human as a result of that’s his power. You recognize, that half-elven nature, whether or not he realizes it or not.”

Aramayo went on to say he needed that battle to “deliver out the humanity” in Elrond. “I needed it to really feel determined. I needed it to really feel mucky and slushy at occasions, however ahead momentum that was pushing him.”

“And he makes all of it the best way to the wall, personally. You recognize what I imply? It’s not his talent that’s going there. It’s his need, the battle inside him.”

Elrond may need some battle in him, however Robert Aramayo may not. Earlier than showing in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy, the British actor performed a youthful model of Ned Stark on HBO‘s Recreation of Thrones. His one main scene was battling Ser Arthur Dayne (Luke Roberts) outdoors the Tower of Pleasure. Satirically, Aramayo stated that the medieval fantasy battle sequence did nothing to organize him for  The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy Season 2’s epic battles.

“I used to be horrible once we shot Recreation of Thrones,” he stated with a chuckle. “And I used to be horrible at any type of sword play.”

“So once they stated that I used to be going to battle within the second season, I actually, purposefully lived basically subsequent door to the stunt health club,” he stated. “I’d be there daily that I used to be off, coaching and all these items.” Coaching and “all that stuff” to get Elrond realistically to that wall.