This Mysterious Character Will Reportedly Play A Large Role In ‘The Rings Of Power’
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Daniel Weyman is among the extensive cast for the upcoming The Rings of Power on Amazon Prime, but unlike much of the rest of the cast, his character remains a mystery. The character’s name is, so far, simply The Stranger.
All that is known thus far about the character is that he’s found by two Harfoot characters at the center of a crater, surrounded by flames, the result of a meteor that tore through the sky and crashed to earth. But at San Diego Comic-Con, he sat down with Screen Rant to talk more about the mysterious character.
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“I think what we're going to do - if we can stay with him - is to see that the way that he impacts communities around him is going to be dramatic,” Weyman said to Screen Rant. While he surely knows what his character is going to do and who he really is, Weyman can’t go revealing that just yet. He does, however, give subtle clues that could perhaps lend weight to several of the theories that are floating around about the character.
At one point in the interview, he states that The Stranger “was a character who had, at his core, a really deep and primal purpose. He had a need to accomplish something; he had a desire to accomplish this thing.” This could be a clue to the character and his real identity.
Many people are familiar with the wizards, Gandalf, Saruman, and Radagast. But they were not the only wizards sent to Middle-earth. In the letters Tolkien wrote and The Silmarillion, the Istari, as the wizards are called, were sent to Middle-earth to aid the free people against Morgoth and later Sauron. Of the three we know, however, they came to Middle-earth in the Third Age. The Rings of Power takes place during the Second Age, and the only reference to wizards in the Second Age is the ones known as the blue wizards, who were sent to the east and south to fight Sauron’s corruption of the people there.
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That could be the “purpose” Weyman refers to for his character. Sauron is the great threat of the Second and Third Ages, and his corruption has consumed much of the east and south of Middle-earth. In the most recent trailer, there’s a scene of The Stranger yelling beneath some trees, and the branches and leaves are whipped into a frenzy. Could this perhaps be a hint of some magic? Time will tell.
Weyman, however, suggests that that time could be long in wait. “We are going to learn and learn and learn, and finding out what exactly is going on might not be so quick.”
The Rings of Power debuts in the United States on September 1, and elsewhere on September 2, on Amazon Prime.
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Source(s): ScreenRant, Tolkien Gateway