The Furiosa star is heading to Middle-earth next Anya Taylor-Joy is joining the cast of the next The Lord of the Rings film, Warner Bros. announced on Monday. She'll play Seren, a brand-new character originated for The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum. She's an elf who's described as "a trusted and lethal agent of King Thranduil" (via Variety). Lee Pace portrayed Thranduil in The Hobbit trilogy, and he'll reprise his role The Hunt for Gollum. Andy Serkis, who played Gollum in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy, will direct the upcoming film. It's seemingly based on a brief passage in The Fellowship of the Ring when Aragorn recounted his search for Gollum and his seven-week journey to bring the ring-obsessed hobbit to Thranduil as a prisoner. As Taylor-Joy's Seren is a brand-new character, it's not immediately clear how she'll fit in to the story. She could potentially accompany Aragorn on his search for Gollum. Based on the "lethal" part of her character description, here's to hoping she gets some fun skirmishes to fight her way through. Unlike Pace, previous Aragorn actor Viggo Mortensen will not be returning to the role. Instead, Jamie Dornan will take over as Ar
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Lord of the Rings fans have given their reactions to the announcement that Anya Taylor-Joy has been cast as a new character not originated by J.R.R. Tolkien in the upcoming spinoff film The Hunt for Gollum. Taylor-Joy's casting comes with…
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