In many ways, costume designer Kate Hawley made the dwarves of The Rings of Power unlike any other Lord of the Rings dwarves.

A lot of that unique twist started with Hawley's first meeting with Owain Arthur, the actor who plays Durin. "A lot of [dwarf] furniture design and everything was quite heavy and more angular in this world," Hawley said during a recent panel moderated by EW at SCAD TVfest in Atlanta. "Then I met Owain for the first time — and he didn't walk into the room, he pirouetted into the room. He hopped in on his tippy-toes and I went, "Oh my God, this is a new way of looking at a dwarf. I want him to be light.'"