The Rings of Energy actress Morfydd Clark managed to sneak a Welsh phrase into the Lord of the Rings spin-off.
The US fantasy TV drama returns for a second season on Thursday.
Clark, who grew up in Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, resumes her main position because the elf Galadriel.
Throughout a specific scene in collection one, Clark’s character was seen shouting the command “cer” to her horse – the Welsh phrase for “go”.
“I believe Morfydd slipped that one in on us,” mentioned showrunner Patrick McKay, forward of season two’s debut on Prime Video.
Clark is a Welsh speaker, identical to her collection co-stars Owain Arthur and Trystan Gravelle.
“If you happen to’re a Welsh speaker, it’s tough to not converse Welsh with one other Welsh speaker,” mentioned Arthur, who performs Durin IV.
“It’s beautiful – we get away with saying a couple of issues about individuals… No, I’m joking. There’s none of that happening.
“It was very nice, notably in season one as properly after we had been taking pictures in New Zealand, being on the opposite facet of the world, and having that sort of residence from residence on the market helped with the ‘hiraeth’.”
Nonetheless, even Arthur didn’t spot the Welsh phrase that snuck into the primary collection.
“Are you aware what – I didn’t spot that,” he laughed.
“I didn’t spot that in any respect. I’ll watch it again and I’ll ask Morfydd.”
Arthur has beforehand starred in S4C’s Rownd a Rownd, and admitted that he had been in search of an excuse to sneak some Welsh into the present himself.
“I all the time try to do it. I all the time do. I believe lots in Welsh,” he mentioned.
Showrunners McKay and JD Payne mentioned the second collection of The Rings of Energy, which was filmed across the UK, was “surprisingly Welsh”.
“I went to Wales a few months in the past, and actually as I crossed the bridge, it felt like I used to be driving into Center Earth,” mentioned Payne.
“Up within the north, particularly Snowdonia, you are feeling such as you’re wandering by the mountains of Center-earth within the forest – it was completely spectacular.”
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy collection two debuts on Prime Video on 29 August.