It’s almost like being on a mechanical bull. I had to climb on him, step on his hip and leg and wrap myself around and strangle him as he’s moving around. “The guy is massive, an incredible mover and fighter. “There are no stilts or or camera tricks,” Córdova said of his fight with the gargantuan orc. Seeing the stunt team say goodbye to their horses when we finished was really emotional.” “There were loads of amazing stunt riders on this, but their horses were incredible and so was the connection they had with them. Before doing this, I thought so much of horse stunts were CGI, but it wasn’t,” she said. You also have this connection to the people of the past, something that humans have done forever.”ĭuring the fierce battle, Galadriel swiftly dodges orcs’ spears and arrows by sliding off the saddle to the side of her horse, but Clark admits it was a stunt person who took her place. Once you feel comfortable on a horse, it’s the closest to magic I’ve ever experienced. I feel that a lot my horse riding skills are down to the horse I was on, but I’m no longer terrified. “I rode a horse called Titan, who is apparently one of the greatest horses they’ve ever had and is the most well trained. “Lots of us had started having never ridden - me anyway - and were quite nervous and scared,” she said. The training was especially helpful for Clark while Galadriel is a natural rider who expertly gallops into battle wearing her shining armor, the actor had never ridden a horse before. To prepare for the sequence, the horse riders trained for four months, with three hours of stunts every day and three days of riding every week. “I tricked it by coming in from a lot of different directions and reusing the same horses” and then expanded their numbers with visual effects. “It was very hard to get access to train horses to be part of this battle,” she said. She would have preferred to use even more horses but, as with so much of “The Rings of Power,” the majority of the episode was shot during the height of the pandemic. The sequence used 20-30 horses and a total crew of 150-200 people, Brändström said. One of the most stunning moments in the episode comes as Galadriel, Halbrand and the whole Númenórean crew arrived on horseback to rescue Arondir and the villagers in the Southlands from Adar’s orc army. We worked on that for months in advance in New Zealand to make sure they were actually on horseback. I wanted to do something different when the Númenóreans came to the village to save everybody. “I’d been studying a lot of the Ukrainian Cossacks and how they were fighting on horseback, hiding behind horses, trying to avoid arrows and bullets,” she said. We’ve just witnessed the birth of the infamous Mount Doom of Mordor.ĭirector Charlotte Brändström - who’s directed episodes of “The Witcher,” “Outlander,” “The Outsider” and “Arrow” - and Clark and Córdova explained to Variety how the monumental episode, full of horseback knights and orcish invaders, came to be.īrändström already knew “The Lord of the Rings” well and dove into action movies, like “Braveheart” and “Gladiator,” as inspiration, but she also researched real-life ancient battles. It erupts, blanketing the Southlands in fire, ash and darkness. The dam holding back a mountain lake opens its water follows the canals dug by the orcs and their prisoners and ultimately pours into the magma chamber of a nearby dormant volcano. While Galadriel interrogates Adar, the human turncoat, Waldreg (Geoff Morrell), secretly arrives at the fallen citadel with Sauron’s blade and uses its mysterious power to unleash a cataclysm onto Middle-earth. She and Halbrand (Charlie Vickers) apprehend Adar, who is revealed to be one of the first elves corrupted by the evil dark lord Morgoth. The day is saved (briefly) when Galadriel ( Morfydd Clark) storms in with her Númenórean army. Adar’s remaining forces ambush the villagers in a flurry of arrows as their leader searches for, and finds, the mysterious Sauron blade he’s been seeking all season. Arondir and his fighters regroup before an even bigger assault by Adar the Southland villagers seemingly prevail, until they notice that some of Adar’s fallen minions are actually their fellow Southlanders who pled allegiance to Adar in the (false) hope of sparing their lives. They find it empty instead - until Arondir launches a one-man sneak attack and topples the stone watchtower on top of a good chunk of Adar’s forces. In the episode, dark elf Adar (Joseph Mawle) and his orc army arrive at the mountain fortress where Arondir (Ismael Cruz Córdova), Bronwyn (Nazanin Boniadi) and the Southland villagers are supposed to be holed up.
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