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Thomas William Hiddleston (born 9 February 1981) is an British and American actor. He gained international fame portraying Loki in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), beginning with Thor in 2011 and including the Disney+ series Loki (2021–2023). Hiddleston started his film career with Joanna Hogg's films Unrelated (2007) and Archipelago (2010). In 2011, Hiddleston portrayed F. Scott Fitzgerald in Woody Allen's romantic comedy Midnight in Paris and appeared in Steven Spielberg's War Horse. That year, he was nominated for the BAFTA Rising Star Award. He continued working with auteurs in independent films, including Terence Davies' drama The Deep Blue Sea (2012), Jim Jarmusch's vampire film Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) and Guillermo del Toro's horror film Crimson Peak (2015). He also played the troubled country music singer Hank Williams in the biopic I Saw The Light (2015) and led the big-budget adventure film Kong: Skull Island (2017). On television, Hiddleston starred in and executive produced the limited series The Night Manager (2016), for which he received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations, and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. Hiddleston made his stage debut in Journey's End in 1999. He continued acting in theatre, including in the West End productions of Cymbeline (2007) and Ivanov (2008). He won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Newcomer in a Play for his role in Cymbeline. He was nominated for the same award for his role as Cassio in Othello (2008). Hiddleston starred as the title character in a production of Coriolanus (2013–2014), receiving a nomination for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor. He made his Broadway debut in a 2019 revival of Harold Pinter's drama Betrayal, for which he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tom Hiddleston, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
This 8-episode prestige mini-series logs the mythic rise and tragic fall of the Elves in Beleriand, adapting the central narrative core of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion. The saga begins in the holy realm of Valinor, where the brilliant but arrogant Elven prince Fëanor captures the divine light of the world in three peerless gems: the Silmarils. When the Dark Lord Morgoth slays the Elven king, destroys the source of global light, and steals the jewels, Fëanor and his sons swear an unbreakable, catastrophic oath of vengeance against anyone who holds them. Defying the gods, Fëanor leads a bloody rebellion and commits a horrific fratricidal kinskilling to steal ships, stranding his noble brother Fingolfin to lead a desperate, frozen trek across a grinding shelf of cosmic ice. Arriving in Middle-earth, the divided Elves launch a centuries-long siege against Morgoth’s industrialized fortress of Angband, establishing pristine but fading kingdoms throughout the lands of Beleriand.The narrative transforms into an epic tragedy as family curses, pride, and military betrayals tear the Elven alliance apart. From the legendary single combat between Fingolfin and Morgoth to the impossible quest of the mortal Man Beren and Elven princess Lúthien to cut a jewel from the Dark Lord's crown, the stakes shift from cosmic warfare to deeply intimate struggles. Ultimately, internal greed and the tragic betrayal of Men lead to the catastrophic Battle of Unnumbered Tears, sparking the collapse of the great hidden strongholds of Nargothrond and Gondolin. With Beleriand on the precipice of absolute destruction, the lone half-elven mariner Eärendil sails west to beg the gods for intervention. The series culminates in the apocalyptic War of Wrath, where the western host shatters the physical continent, casts Morgoth into the Void, and leaves the final survivors to confront the heavy, lingering weight of their generational scars.
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