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The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power Season 3 Resolves One of the Most Fascinating Mysteries From Middle-earth Lore

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The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power Season 3 Resolves One of the Most Fascinating Mysteries From Middle-earth Lore

Full spoilers ahead for the first four episodes of The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power Season 3!

Prime Video has released the first four episodes of The Rings of Power Season 3, and they’re nothing if not eventful. But amid all the warring and hoarding of magical rings, there’s also a reveal that has a lot of Tolkien nerds’ heads spinning. The series has resolved what may well be the biggest lingering mystery from Tolkien’s vast Middle-earth mythology.

Read on for a full breakdown of the big reveal in Episode 3 and how it resolves a major loose end from books like The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales of Middle-earth.

Back in Season 2, viewers were introduced to a new antagonist played by Ciarán Hinds. Known as the “Dark Wizard,” this villain reigns over the cursed land of Rhûn. Gandalf (Daniel Weyman) is desperate to put a stop to this powerful foe, lest the Dark Wizard ally himself with Sauron and create a truly unstoppable army.

Though Rings of Power is set many centuries before the events of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, many of the characters are designed to evoke familiar archetypes from the movies. Once again, we have a saga crammed full of noble elves, intrepid dwarves, plucky Hobbits (or Harfoots), and morally conflicted men. But sometimes those archetypes are subverted in the end. Much like how the seemingly Aragorn-esque Halbrand (Charlie Vickers) turned out to be Sauron, the Dark Wizard isn’t who many fans assumed him to be.


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