Andy Serkis to Narrate The Silmarillion Audiobook [Exclusive]

If there’s one name, one voice, one persona that fans of The Lord of the Rings can attach to film series, it is that of Andy Serkis, whose performance as the wretched, tortured Sméagol — aka Gollum — has remained a cultural touchstone for the last 20 years. More recently, Serkis dove back into the world of Tolkein, narrating the audiobook for The Hobbit in 2020, followed by the complete Lord of the Rings in 2021. Though each of these are remarkable accomplishments in their own right, the English actor is far from done with the world of Middle-earth. In an interview with Collider’s own Steve Weintraub, Serkis revealed that he’s going to be narrating the audiobook for Tolkein’s The Silmarillion, one of the influences behind Prime Video’s wildly successful series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. When asked whether he’d been watching Rings of Power, and what his thoughts were, Serkis replied that he had seen and enjoyed the show. He went on to elaborate: