The recent premiere of ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ has brought us back to Middle Earth created by Tolkien. At the time we did it with the two trilogies directed by Peter Jackson and you may not know the secret link between those six films and the Amazon series. And it is that in all of them they share an actor.
Maybe the name of Jed Brophy say nothing to some, but he is the only interpreter who has appeared so far in both ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ and in the trilogies of ‘The Lord of the rings’ and ‘The Hobbit’. Yes, he has done it playing different charactersto the point of giving life to several in the same film.
In ‘The Fellowship of the Ring’ he was one of the fearsome nazgul, while in ‘The two towers’ it was Sharku, the orc who dragged Aragorn to what seemed his certain death, but it is that there it is also Snaga, the orc who complained about why they couldn’t have some meat in this scene. As if that weren’t enough, he was also one of the Rohirrim’s horsemen in this sequence of the extended version. We can see him in the second 29.
Moving on to ‘The return of the king’, Brophy became an elf -he appears in one minute and 50 seconds of this video-, but also an orc in this scene of the extended version. You can see him at minute and 30 seconds. And to top it all off, his son Sadwyn Brophy He is the one who played the firstborn of Aragorn and Arwen in the closing of the trilogy.
For its part, in the ‘The Hobbit’ trilogy he only played Norione of the dwarfs who accompanied Thorin and Bilbo on their adventure.
Brophy himself has confirmed that he has also played Vrath, one of the orcs holding and fighting Arondir (Ismael Cruz Córdova) in the third episode of ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’. A nice wink for fans of the Middle-earth version of Peter Jackson, whom he initially wanted to have for the Amazon series, an idea finally discarded, something that the studio executed in a bad way.
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