The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season three has promised to reveal several iconic moments that J.R.R. Tolkien fans have been waiting to see. Sauron crafting the One Ring is the chart-topper, of course, but we’ll also get to witness Gandalf picking up his wizard’s hat and donning it for the first time.

It might be a seemingly small gesture amid all that dire Middle-earth drama, but the Lord of the Rings faithful know how important it is.

That includes Daniel Weyman, who plays Gandalf on the Prime Video series. At a recent press day ahead of The Rings of Power season three, he told io9 what it was like getting the hat just right.

“That was a joy,” he said. “You go into a costume fitting and you’ve got this great costume team, and Janet [Spriggs], who made the hat, would come in. It was a sort of royal artifact … I wouldn’t put it on myself. It would be put on me, and measurements would be taken, and pictures would be taken, and conversations would happen, and notes would be given. It would be changed a bit, and I’d come in again. So it was a whole thing getting it to the right place.”

He continued, putting the hat in context for how it passes to Gandalf in The Rings of Power . “It’s obviously Tom [Bombadil]’s hat, but Rory [Kinnear]’s head might not be the same fit as mine. So it was a joy to work with Janet on that, and I think she’s done an extraordinary job.

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