Like fallen from the sky
As always, alert that we are going to reveal some data of the first episodes, So if you haven’t seen the series yet, don’t keep reading to save yourself SPOILERS. But back to The Rings of Powerat the end of the first episode a really strange event occurs, such as the fall of what looks like a meteorite that crosses a good part of Middle-earth, and that finally hits the ground near where the Hairy Ones are camped.
The (supposed) meteorite causes a huge crater with a human shape in the center and around it, an entire surface burned. Well, from that precise moment many fans have speculated on who that giant could be that to this day he has not said a single word and that he decides to travel with the halflings to the new enclave where they will spend the next season. And when it comes to imagining…theories get really crazy.
But there is one in which practically all fans agree, and that is that this giant, played by Daniel Weyman, belongs to a lineage of magiciansimmortal all of them, and that will have a decisive importance in the future of the events that occurred in Middle-earth some ages later.
Could it be Gandalf, Sauron…?
Effectively. Virtually everyone who follows the series has the feeling that the Stranger is actually a magician, a Maiar, which is how this lineage is known of supernatural beings that are born immortal, are capable of evolving acquiring different forms from their original state and that have such incredible powers that they can govern matter and the very forces of nature. In that group are, of course, the three best known of The Lord of the rings: Sauron, Saruman and Gandalf (although there are a few more).
Well, the only thing that makes this theory less credible is that in reality those Maiar did not arrive in Middle Earth until the Third Age, and the Prime Video series stops at what happens in the Second. So, do we have to forget about it? The truth is that no, because although Tolkien marks the moment in which news of them is heard, what prevents us from thinking that this immortal condition did not allow them to live in previous Ages with forms and powers very different from those that they will exhibit in the films of peter jackson?
In favor of it being Gandalf is the Stranger’s height, as he is much taller than even a normal man. The general appearance of him reminds us of the actor who gave life to the character in the trilogy of The Lord of the rings, Ian McKellen, but also that his landing takes place near the Hairy Ones, the ancestors of the Hobbitswhich would explain that natural affection that he will show for mediums throughout a good part of his life.
Nevertheless, there are those who believe that it is actually Sauronadopting a primal human form with which to wander through Middle-earth and incite the peoples who live there to forge the rings of power and, therefore, the unique ring that he will wear in the battle in which Isildur snatches it from him by cutting him finger.
And you, who do you think is the Stranger of The Rings of Power?
