Rings of Power’s white-robe Dweller and her Stranger connection, explained

The first glimpse of this summer Lord of the rings: Ring of power There was one character in particular that caught the fans’ attention and held it tight when it was revealed. led to: This was the show’s version of Sauron!

Well, in episode 5 ring of power, The mysterious white-coated character finally appears, leaving only questions. Tolkien’s source material provides hints as to where the story is going and how the characters relate to Sauron, the Stranger, and the show’s other mysteries.

[Ed. note: This piece contains spoilers for episode 5 of The Rings of Power, “Partings.”]

What we know about the white-robed denizens

Our mythical Sauron potential debuts early in the episode as one of three characters who seem to be searching for an equally mysterious meteor person known as the Stranger. credits refer to her as “The Resident,” and she is played by Bridy Sisson. She along with her companions a nomad (played by Edith Poor in a helmet with flowing red hair) and an ascetic (played by Kali Kopae who wears a hood and carries round objects).

They have pale skin, pale robes, and eccentric adornments. Residents carry ornate wands, and ascetics wield metal discs or plates adorned with circles and crescents. Nomadic armor includes several eye and circle motifs. Also, the fingers are intertwined on the helmet.

Beyond what we saw on screen in Episode 5, we know some important details. tell time magazine, ring of power Executive Producer Lindsay Weber says these characters have traveled here “from the Far East, from the Land of the Runes.”

What are runes?

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In its broadest sense, Rhûn means everything east of the map. Lord of the Ring, all the land in that direction that didn’t affect the story Tolkien wanted to tell. And it’s barely explained because it wasn’t important to the story he wanted to tell.

The races of dwarves, men and elves originated somewhere in Rune and migrated west, but that was a very long time ago and the world has undergone many geographic upheavals since then, The current state cannot be determined.it’s a blank canvas ring of power Perhaps there’s even an opportunity to embody the umbrella term for “Easterlings,” which Tolkien’s modern-day elves, humans, and dwarves had to refer to men from the east.

So where did these white-robed figures come from?

What does this mean for strangers?

Rhûn has one very solid attribute that could come into play here. It is also where the Blue Wizard is believed to have flew. And “his one of the blue wizards” is an unlikely theory about the identity of the stranger.

The duo of Gandalf and Saruman’s azure-clad colleagues is one of a long list of concepts that Tolkien wrote. Lord of the Ring I spent the rest of the day deciding whether or not to elaborate on them. SilmarilionLike Rune himself, the two were geographically outside the confines of Tolkien’s favorite tales, eliminating the need to explore them.

He toyed with their different names and different origins. Perhaps they were Alatar and Paland. The two witches eventually became real lazy and abandoned their mission to sober up with their runes. Alternatively, they were Molinetar and Romestamo, his two wizards who long struggled to dilute Sauron’s influence in the east of Middle-earth. Without their work, the Dark Lords would surely have conquered Gondor and the rest of Elegion.

Ultimately, as to what Tolkien intended if he completed his work for the Blue Wizards, except they moved farther east than the other Wizards and stayed there. It’s possible that this rune connection will eventually turn into a connection with the Blue Wizard.

But wait, there’s one more.

it’s the moon

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of other Potential hints about the Stranger in this episode are his celestial origins, his seeming star-focused focus, his recognizable shots looking up at the moon, and the very It is in the emblem that is reminiscent of the moon.

The stranger may be the Moon Man.

This may sound like a joke, but in Tolkien’s Middle-earth, the sun and moon had very specific origin stories. At that time, these trees (and the stars in the sky) were the world’s only source of natural light. The Sun and Moon were created to replace them, glowing vessels piloted under the sky and earth by the Maiar couple, beings of the same order as Sauron and Gandalf.

The lunar ship was piloted by the notoriously unreliable Meyer Tyrion. A crush on Meyer, who pilots the sun, is why the moon often appears in the sky with the sun. And the legend of the man who pilots the moon has even reached a “modern” Hobbit with stories and songs (one called “Hey diddle diddle”) about the ridiculous things that happened when the Grumpy Moon Man visited Middle-earth.

Metatextually, Middle-earth Moon is a combination of Tolkien’s elven lore and the stories he told to entertain children, like Tom Bombadil and The Hobbit himself.Man in the Moon appears in both rover random, a story invented by a professor to comfort his son after he lost his favorite toy on the beach. And in his annual letter, he wrote and illustrated for children in his father’s Christmas voice.

But whether the stranger is the Moon Man or the Blue Wizard, these strangers in Ryune’s milky white clothes seem to know something about him. prize Lord of the rings: Ring of power I decided to solve this particular riddle.