- Andy Serkis will narrate the audiobook for Tolkein’s The Silmarillion.
- One of the sources of inspiration for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.
- He will also narrate The Hobbit’s audiobook in 2020.
Fans of The Lord of the Rings can associate the movie series with Andy Serkis because of his portrayal of the miserable, tortured Sméagol, also known as Gollum, which has remained a cultural touchstone for the past 20 years.
Serkis recently returned to the world of Tolkein, narrating The Hobbit’s audiobook in 2020 and the entirety of The Lord of the Rings in 2021.
Even though each of these achievements is noteworthy in and of itself, the English actor is far from finished with the Middle-earth setting.
Serkis disclosed that he will be narrating the audiobook for Tolkein’s The Silmarillion, one of the sources of inspiration for Prime Video’s enormously popular series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, in an interview with Steve Weintraub for his fantastic work on Andor.
Serkis responded that he had seen and liked the show when asked if he had been watching Rings of Power and what his thoughts were. He continued to explain:
“Yeah, I absolutely watched it, and it really – once you get through understanding the rules of it, and actually how loyal to the trilogy and the feel of the trilogy music by Howard Shore for the opening sequence, et cetera – I found it incredibly engaging, and I really, really enjoyed watching it. And also, because I’d done an audiobook recording of The Lord of the Rings, and read the appendices, and had to read them out loud, I was quite clued up about where it was going to go, which was great, and it was really helpful because I’m going to be – don’t tell anybody – reading The Silmarillion, as well. So you heard this first. Yeah, no, so I really enjoyed it very much so.”
Serkis can currently be seen on the Disney+ Star Wars series Andor, where he portrays Imperial prisoner Kino Loy opposite Diego Luna’s Cassian Andor, though he is soon to return to Middle-earth.
In The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi, and briefly in The Rise of Skywalker, Serkis played Supreme Leader Snoke, who tries to instruct Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) in the ways of the Dark Side. This marks Serkis’ return to the Galaxy Far, Far Away.
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