I was so excited to create something new.
His work speaks of the times."
“We had never really seen an elf that was the people’s elf,” Cordova mused.

Ismael Cruz Cordova on ‘The Rings Of Power’.Prime Studios
It was pretty cool to represent that, and have a voice within elven-ness.
I think a lot of people identify with this elf and his plight."
“It is necessary to revise things and represent and exist,” he said. "

Ismael Cruz Cordova at San Diego Comic-Con.Jerod Harris/Getty