THE LORD OF THE RINGS: Surprising Details On Ema Horvath's Role In The Amazon Series Revealed

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: Surprising Details On Ema Horvath's Role In The Amazon Series Revealed

Details on Ema Horvath's (What Lies Below) role in Amazon's upcoming The Lord of the Rings series have come to light, and it's safe to say Tolkien purists might have something to say about this!

By MarkCassidy - Jan 03, 2022 11:01 AM EST
Filed Under: Lord of the Rings

Amazon's still untitled The Lord of the Rings series is set to premiere this September, and even though the show is still shrouded in a certain amount of mystery, a recent synopsis gave us a little more to go on when it comes to the plot and setting. The characters are a different story, however.

We know that a younger take on Galadriel (Morfydd Clark) will feature, but most of the other names we've heard don't appear to belong to any established Middle Earth figures. Now, Fellowship of Fans claim to have confirmed the rumor that Isildur will appear, but the rest of their report may not sit very well with Tolkien purists!

According to the site, recent cast addition Ema Horvath (What Lies Below, The Gallows Act II) is playing Carine, who is believed to be the sister of Isildur. LOTR aficionados will likely be aware that Isildur did not have a sister (he ruled Gondor will his only brother, Anárion), so this will be a new character created for the show. Carine is said to object to her brother's decision to join the Númenórean army and set sail for Middle Earth alongside his friends Nolion, Valandil, and Ontamo, but her part in the series beyond this is unclear.

Amazon Studios’ forthcoming series brings to screens for the very first time the heroic legends of the fabled Second Age of Middle-earth’s history. This epic drama is set thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, and will take viewers back to an era in which great powers were forged, kingdoms rose to glory and fell to ruin, unlikely heroes were tested, hope hung by the finest of threads, and the greatest villain that ever flowed from Tolkien’s pen threatened to cover all the world in darkness.

Beginning in a time of relative peace, the series follows an ensemble cast of characters, both familiar and new, as they confront the long-feared re-emergence of evil to Middle-earth. From the darkest depths of the Misty Mountains, to the majestic forests of the elf-capital of Lindon, to the breathtaking island kingdom of Númenor, to the furthest reaches of the map, these kingdoms and characters will carve out legacies that live on long after they are gone.

What do you guys make of this departure from canon? Drop us a comment down below.

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bkmeijer2
bkmeijer2 - 1/3/2022, 11:35 AM
I don't really mind it that they're creating new characters, as long as they get the world they inhabit right
Goldboink
Goldboink - 1/3/2022, 12:58 PM
@bkmeijer -
They have to get the big stuff right. That's where PJ went off the rails after the original trilogy and at a few points within that. If they are doing the fall of Numenor and the forging of the rings there are big themes that can't be for-shortened. My hope is that it doesn't descend into a gorefest or go for the cheap thrills.
theFUZZ008
theFUZZ008 - 1/3/2022, 11:40 AM
She seems nice.
TheWalkingCuban
TheWalkingCuban - 1/3/2022, 11:40 AM
I’m good with Peter Jackson’s stuff, yes, including the Hobbit, idc what nobody says I liked it.

https://www.google.com/search?q=hobbit+song+in+bilbo%27s+house&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:7b13f098,vid:m5BETb-hLgA,st:0

Loved the White Orc, a truly intimidating lookin dude, his son too
IronGenesis
IronGenesis - 1/3/2022, 11:41 AM
I feel like Hugo Weaving screamed “ISILDUR!!!!” a lot louder and longer than what actually happened. In my memories, he’s still screaming, “ISILDURRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
Demigods
Demigods - 1/3/2022, 11:41 AM
"you know how Peter Jackson's movies did so great because they stuck as close to the source material as they could...
yeah, we're gonna disregard that success and do something else."

-Amazon execs, probably
TheWalkingCuban
TheWalkingCuban - 1/3/2022, 11:46 AM
If anyone was a fan of the Shannara book series by Terry Brooks, there was an mtv series, the Shannara Chronicles, trust me on this, if you missed it, you have GOT to keep on missing it. What a piece of CRAP
MrDandy
MrDandy - 1/3/2022, 12:22 PM
@TheWalkingCuban - Shannarah is at least so bad it almost makes for a good hate watch. Wheel of Time on the other hand just flat out sucks
TheWalkingCuban
TheWalkingCuban - 1/3/2022, 12:24 PM
@MrDandy - I’ll look that up and not watch it, thanks haha
Goldboink
Goldboink - 1/3/2022, 1:00 PM
@TheWalkingCuban -
Shanara was such a cheap knock off there is no way to make anything good out of it.

Now, The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant is a series who's time has come.
TheWalkingCuban
TheWalkingCuban - 1/3/2022, 1:08 PM
@Goldboink - that it was in the first book but it spun off in its own direction from the second book forward
Goldboink
Goldboink - 1/3/2022, 1:10 PM
@TheWalkingCuban -
Couldn't make it through the first 100 pages.
TheWalkingCuban
TheWalkingCuban - 1/3/2022, 1:22 PM
@Goldboink - I was a teenager that hadn’t read lotr yet, I got lucky
Kurban
Kurban - 1/3/2022, 11:54 AM
Amazon will never come close to the genius of Tolkien.
MaxPaint
MaxPaint - 1/3/2022, 12:10 PM
Can't wait to be disappointed-yet again-by another subpar fantasy show.
Kyos
Kyos - 1/3/2022, 12:13 PM
The only question is wether it'll be worse fan fiction than the latter two Hobbit movies and the Mordor games.
jj2112
jj2112 - 1/3/2022, 12:15 PM
@Kyos - Agreed, but at least the Mordor games were fun for what they were.
MrDandy
MrDandy - 1/3/2022, 12:23 PM
@Kyos - Hobbit is just bloated. It’s pretty good if you watch the Maple Films cut. I watch that in my yearly LotR marathons instead of the trilogy
MrDandy
MrDandy - 1/3/2022, 12:19 PM
Show will likely follow one of these three stories

1. Forging of the Rings of Power and Sauron’s war with the Elves to reclaim them

2. The fall of Numinor

3. The Last Aliiance and the final push by the free people to defeat sauron in the second age.


I doubt they will try the Silmarillion yet as that is a VERY ambitious story.
IcePyke
IcePyke - 1/3/2022, 12:19 PM
Isildur's sister? WHATTHEF*CK?!?!

BLASPHEMY!
THIEVES!!
MURDERERS!!!
LORE F*CKERS!!!!


Anyway!

Happy 130th Birthday Professor Tolkien!! 🎂🧙‍♂️🧝‍♂️🥂🍻
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