Lord of Rings legend a finalist at Surrey

Lord of Rings legend a finalist at Surrey

An actor who blew into a great horn to signal the charge of the Rohirrim in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy has made it through to a shortlist of 10 in the strangest writer’s residency award in the land. Bruce Hopkins, who played Gamling, a trusted lieutenant who didn’t much like dwarves (“Dwarves are said to be cunning folk with stone”), will compete for the no less mythical honour of the 2025 Surrey Hotel writers residency award in a…