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The Rings of Power Stars React to This Week's Big Season 3 Deaths

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The Rings of Power Stars React to This Week's Big Season 3 Deaths

Full spoilers follow for Episodes 1-4 of Season 3 of The Rings of Power, which are streaming now on Prime Video.

Just four episodes into Season 3 of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, and showrunners Patrick McKay and J.D. Payne have already delivered two consequential deaths from their pool of original Middle-earth characters. In “The Gift of Men,” Ema Horvath’s Eärien, Elendil's daughter, takes her own life rather than allow King Pharazôn (Trystan Gravelle) to punish her. And “Gundabad” ends with the tragic, lifeless eyes of Elven warrior Arondir (Ismael Cruz Córdova) staring out across the wasteland of Morodor.

The series has never shied away from killing characters, but McKay told IGN this season’s deaths are about underscoring how Sauron and his evil are ascendant. “There are real stakes,” he explained. “There is a real cost to what Sauron is doing. As we were in the writers’ room, myself and J.D., very early on, we felt that the audience needed to feel that and feel it viscerally. We had to take things from the audience. It had to hurt.”

In Episode 2, it’s revealed that Eärien has convincingly played the part of enthusiastic King Pharazôn stan and Númenórean purist, while she’s actually been a mole for exiled queen regent and Faithful Havens leader Míriel (Cynthia Addai-Robinson). For five years, she fed Númenor’s movements and plans to her brother Isildur (Maxim Baldry).

“She helped her father escape arrest, and that's supposed to be a real turning point for that character,” McKay said of Eärien’s change in worldview this season.


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