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Four year after working together onThe Hobbit : The Battle of the Five Armies- and another 15 years since the last entry in Peter Jackson’sThe Lord of the Ringstrilogy - Orlando Bloom ( who play the elf Legolas ) and Ian McKellen ( who play the wizard Gandalf ) met for a mini reunion recently . They were joined byThe Hobbit’sAdam Brown ( who played the Dwarf Ori ) .
Based on the novels by source J. R. R. Tolkien , theLord of the RingsandHobbitadaptations tell the tale of a fantastical cosmos calledMiddle - earthand its ongoing struggle between good and iniquity . The character reference Legolas and Gandalf met in the first of the threeLord of the Ringsmovies , titledThe Fellowship of the Ring , when they swear allegiance to the Hobbit Frodo during his quest to demolish the One Ring in Mount Doom . Ori , on the other hand , meets the other two in the prequel trilogyThe Hobbit , during a seeking to regenerate the Lonely Mountain ’s Dwarven city Erebor from the avaricious dragonSmaug . Now , years after the actors portray Tolkien ’s classic character , the actors reunited out of character reference to dump the perilous route of center - earth in favour of a night on the township .
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Bloom , McKellen , and Brown took a group selfie of themselves , which Bloom then shared on his personalInstagramaccount . He humorously captioned the picture by saying,“a nanus , a maven and an hob base on balls into a Browning automatic rifle … “Both Bloom and McKellen are currently asterisk in lead roles in productions in London ’s West End - in Tracy Letts’Killer Joeand William Shakespeare’sKing Lear , severally . Incidentally , McKellen recently sat out a performance ofKing Learafter injuring his foot , according toThe Telegraph . He spent the even speaking directly to the audience out of type .
Now , even though theLord of the Ringsfranchise has come and gone , McKellenhasshown stake in revisiting the role of Gandalfin the upcomingLord of the RingsTV series from Amazon . He outright put forward his dissatisfaction with someone other than himself playing the role , saying"Now is n’t that annoying ? That there ’s going to be another Gandalf in town?“That said , there has yet to be any confirmation regarding his official involvement with the series .
While McKellen ’s return to theLord of the Ringsfranchise could turn out to be a successful move for Amazon , returning to the franchise in general has been met with interracial reaction over the past long time . Jackson’sHobbittrilogy ( based on a undivided 310 - page novel ) was satisfy with considerably less extolment than hisLord of the Ringstrilogy released roughly a decennium prior . In fact , The Return of the Kingearnedan Oscar for Best Picture . So , concede Amazon may have an divine take on another trip to Tolkien ’s halfway - land , it continue to be seen whether or not the series - with or without McKellen - will do justice to the source material .
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rootage : Orlando Bloom , The Telegraph
