in the final episode of season 1 of Ring of Power, the stranger is finally no longer a complete stranger, but what does his real identity mean? From the first episode, Daniel Wayman played the stranger character It has always been covered with a veil of mystery. He fell from the sky like a shooting star, fell to the ground as a fireball, and soon became friends with the local hairy foot people, but seemed to injure them multiple times with powerful and uncontrollable magic from time to time.
The first few episodes of " The Ring of Power " , the storyline about strangers seems to have been deliberately misleading viewers , even making viewers believe that he may be Sauron, is in the middle of the last episode Even directly used Sauron's name for him (although the real Sauron seemed to have revealed his identity at that time) . Dwellers, nomads, and dervishes caught up with him and honored him as the owner of Sauron, , and and interfered with the hairy-footed people, before the three realized that they may have committed a terrible Error , misidentified the owner . but until the end, " Ring of Power " also did not explicitly say the stranger's real name , only is sure Identity :. Although there are other wizards in the "Lord of the Rings" series - including the brown wizard Radagast, the white wizard Saruman and the mysterious blue wizard , the first season of " The Ring of Power " The ending has largely implied in that the stranger is Gandalf .
Why strangers could be Gandalf
In Lord of the Rings, Ista refers to as five wizards who came to Middle-earth to help fight Sauron, and viewers have always thought strangers could be is Gandalf. Visually, the long grey hair and messy beard , does kind of looks like Peter Jackson The Lord of the Rings trilogy Ian McLean , and has hairy feet The gray robes that people provide him with, further increases the likelihood that he is close to the gray wizard in appearance. In addition, the friendship between strangers and hairy feet echoes the close relationship between Gandalf and The Hobbit in The Lord of the Rings. Combine that with the use of powerful magic, passion for Middle-earth, spells for whispering insects, and the market value of Gandalf's character in the Lord of the Rings series, and is almost certainly him .
At the prompt of 's three dark messengers , Meteor still doesn't remembers his name and identity before came to Middle-earth , and 's lines implying his identity appear in at the end of and Luo In the conversation of Rui , "Always follow your smell ." Gandalf said the same thing to Merry in "The Lord of the Rings", This is basically there is no doubt that .
why is Gandalf in middle earth ? who sent he came from To 's purpose in Middle-earth, not sure where himself came from 's , but based on Tolkien 's myth legend , the audience can make some guess : when asked When ren started to become powerful, the five Istari were sent by Valar to Middle-earth , their mission was not directly and Sauron against , but to guide and help the people of Middle-earth Defeat Sauron . Therefore, 's "Ring of Power" is estimated to follow the original in this plot. , but Luo Rui , then definitely thinks that the stranger is "coming to help" , this is still don't know how to explain .
According to Tolkien's narration, When Gandalf and the other wizards appeared in The Lord of the Rings, they had lived in Middle-earth great wisdom. but , when they first arrived from the west coast of to Middle-earth, Tolkien painted them as " like 's first learning of everything . ' description of strangers is very similar to , so it seems that , 's original work is hints that wizards from Valinor to Middle-earth side effects of is probably lost .
Now is almost can is sure is a stranger is Vera sent to Middle-earth, audience probably knows too why Luo Rui so is lucky to find him first. viewers should remember in episode 2 , Luo Rui told her friend bobby that met this stranger seemed destined and bobby also recalled For one thing, Luo Rui once took care of a kitty and made it back to health. In "Lord of the Rings", the eagle is the messenger of Vera , therefore, through Luo Rui to show 's goodwill, Vera very maybe is deliberately sent Gandalf to Los near Rui.
Gandalf appears will break original ?
The influence of Gandalf's appearance in The Lord of the Rings on Tolkien's original book may not be that great. The background of Amazon's TV series is set in the second era of Middle-earth, but because it is a live-action film, it is impossible for them to take out the stories of thousands of years and gradually narrate , , therefore, they must The timeline is greatly compressed (for example, Isil Du was actually born more than 1000 years after of 's power or made ). Timeline compression is one aspect, is actually Gandalf and other wizards before the third era should not appear in Middle-earth . Tolkien original not only does Istari not appear in the early records of second era , but also Tolkien also describes Gandalf ( originally named as Orolin) in In the early days of the earth world did not want to participate in the war between and Sauron .
If wants to connect this backstory to Gandalf's Middle-earth adventures in the second era, then " Ring of Power" second season sure also needs to supplement explain. Maybe strangers real at this time is in the original Maya form , that is O'Lorlin's identity, this can avoid and the original conflict.
three dark messengers why think he is Sauron?
The Lord of the Rings doesn't give enough detail the three dark messengers of dwellers, nomads and ascetics why know so much about sacred things, nor why they are so convinced that the man who fell from the sky is Sow Lun. These problems may wait until the second season of will explain . But the judgment of the three dark messengers is still quite close to , because Sauron is actually an immortal Maya , he and the wizard belong to the same level . According to Tolkien's settings, Istari and the Dark Lord are slightly different, after they came to Middle-earth, lost 's memory of as Maya, and 's power was also limited by Vera , but in essence, Istari and Sauron are both relatives of the same level. Perhaps , the messenger of darkness, only predicted the arrival of Sauron, they never imagined that other 's Maya would also come to Middle-earth at the same time.
Stranger still can be another wizard ?
The Stranger's "follow your smell " line is a clear indication that Daniel Wayman is playing an early Gandalf in The Ring of Power. If is officially announced in the future , has become another wizard , then this joke is indeed a bit ridiculous . but " The Ring of Power " the end of the first season subtitles did also did not explicitly use the names of Gandalf or Orolin , so strangers may be of other wizards The potential is still that exists of , or even any of the other names may be .
" Ring of Power " may be according to Tolkien Middle-earth chronicle first tells the story of Saruman the wizard in white robes , if this Istari is Saruman, then In the next few seasons, maybe will tell 's story of 's becoming more and more evil, 's final collusion with Sauron in "Lord of the Rings" 's pen . As a friend of hair-footed , , a stranger, has a close relationship with , then his identity may also point to brown robe wizard Ladagast. Meanwhile, two blue wizards also very mysterious disappeared in Middle-earth , " The Ring of Power " also can tell their ancient stories as they please , and Tolkien is in Some places in the original work confirmed that the two blue robes were who came to Middle-earth when the Lord of the Rings was born, and the time almost matched .
also a possibility -- the possibility that the more compatible with Tolkien's classic is any of the five Istari of Stranger, but earlier , The wizard who has not yet been mentioned, was sent to Middle-earth by the Valar in the Second Age. this is an attempt by vera, maybe this attempt went well, so next time Sauron shows up again, vera sends more wizards to middle earth , which is more in line with the original setting of . But , Now it is still difficult for us to ignore the lines of "follow the smell " and the shadow of Gandalf in the trilogy movie .
Will there be more wizards in season 2? ? It seems no there will be other wizards can quietly arrive before strangersReach Middle Earth . of course and that also doesn't mean there won't be more Istari in season two , When Tolkien originally described the wizards arriving in Middle-earth, stated that they were in Middle-earth at the same time for a period of time, and there are signs that the story compression of "Ring of Power" is likely to involve some parts of the third age, especially about the five wizards The story, so in Amazon's Ring of Power , stranger should be the first wizard to land, and other wizards may soon arrive at .
