Ive read the books.

It has a sort of rawer quality to it, she says.

And thats a choice thats quite intentional.

Galadriel and Gil-galad in Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

Theres jewelry everywhere woven into clothes.

The dwarves represented such a rich culture when you got to know them, Hawley says.

Dwarves became the most amazing characters to design, really.

It was partly [done] through casting, she says.

The women sort of became an idea of water over a stone of men, so to speak.

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