Contrary to earlier reports, the Harfoots are still a part of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Season 3 albeit not to the degree they were featured in the Prime Video show’s first two seasons.

“[We] have not written out the Harfoots [from Season 3]”, co-showrunner Patrick McKay recently informed me at the show’s press junket.

“I would say for myself and J.D. [Payne], my co-show runner, every season is its own opportunity and its own challenge. With Season 3, we really wanted to level up our game as dramatists. We really wanted to focus the show. We wanted to be more psychological, more emotional, wanted to do a darker season,” McKay explained.

“It's the season where Sauron forges the One Ring, and we wanted that to unify every single storyline. We didn't want it to have sprawl the way we enjoyed having in the past. No, no. This was a time we wanted it to be one journey and on rails.”

McKay continued: “That meant that if a story wasn't about the rings and wasn't about Sauron and wasn't about the One Ring, that to put it in there would feel forced and it wouldn't do justice to those characters. But don't worry, you can't count a halfling out, the Harfoots and Markella [Kavenagh] and Megan [Richardson]'s characters. They'll be back maybe sooner than you think.”

How exactly the Harfoots will factor into the overall plot to stop Sauron from forging the One Ring – and just how much they will actually appear in Season 3 – remains to be seen.

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