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It looks like Uncle Benjen has found a new gig after giving his life to save Jon Snow a few years ago on Game Of Thrones. According to Deadline, Joseph Mawle—who played the aforementioned Star relative—is going to play the main villain in Amazon’s Lord Of The Rings show. He’ll be a character named Oren, which (according to some cursory Googling) doesn’t seem to mean anything in the larger context of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth stories, but there’s always a chance that fake names are being used in a show like this (“Oren” does sound a bit like “Sauron,” but this show is going to take place long before people from the original books show up so maybe that’s irrelevant).