Dominic Monaghan (born December 8, 1976) is an English actor. He has received international attention from playing Merry in Peter Jackson's adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and for his role as Charlie Pace on the television show Lost.
A prequel of A Song of Ice and Fire, detailing the events that led to Robert Baratheon becoming King.
Drawing from the late 1990s, around when the first books in the series were being published.