Jamie Lovett is a graduate of MTSU’s Journalism program who followed his lifelong passion for comics and related media into a career writing about pop culture. He has over a decade of experience writing about television, movies, comics, video games, and more, and recently co-founded the comics-focused newsletter/site Weird City Media.
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On Monday, news broke that Warner Bros. had cast Anya Taylor-Joy in The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum. Now Taylor-Joy has opened up about joining The Lord of the Rings franchise.
Taylor-Joy tells The Hollywood Reporter that she was “moved and transported by the original films,” referring to Peter Jackson’s award-winning, box office blockbuster adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy. She adds that she’s eager to “travel to Middle-earth. Being an Elf in this world is a dream come true.”
Taylor-Joy is specifically playing a Sindarin Elf in The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum, a new character named Seren, described as a lethal agent of the Woodland Elf King Thranduil (Lee Pace). Given that description, some think Seren is a replacement for Tauriel from The Hobbit.
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