Forging the Rings
Leon Wadham was at primary school in Wellington when the Lord of the Rings films first arrived 20 years ago, and at drama school when The Hobbit trilogy delivered its encore. So, while Peter Jackson’s forays into JRR Tolkien’s Middle-earth helped launch the careers of many local actors, Wadham figured for him that particular ship had long since sailed.
“I did not see a universe where there was a role for me in one of these Tolkien stories, so it’s completely surreal to be involved in one now.”
Today, Wadham sits talking to the Listener from Los Angeles, where he’s one of 20 or so lead characters gathered for promotional duties for Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, the series otherwise known as the most expensive television show ever made.
Despite the series being
