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Sauron

The Dark Lord likes to be dramatic (see also: the giant flaming eye that will eventually sit atop Barad-dur), and this is certainly the most dramatic entrance any character has had in the series so far continue. I mean, none of us would expect Sauron to do something as ordinary as take a boat back across the Sundering Seas to Midgard like some Elf, would we?

It is already very clear that the driving emotional engine behind much of Rings of power is the inevitable return of Sauron. Yes, he was defeated when Morgoth fell at the end of the First Age, but since a Sith apprentice must always rise when their master is defeated, we all know he will return. This would be a dramatic way to re-introduce the show’s greatest threat right under viewers’ noses and establish a connection between Sauron and the ancestors of the very beings (ie hobbits) who will one day spell his downfall. Plus, that can not be an accident that the fire crater his crash landing creates looks a lot like Sauron’s eye, can it?

Gandalf the Grey

Despite the fact that Rings of power is, for the most part, boldly charting its own path through JRR Tolkien’s story, no one can tell me that if Amazon saw a chance to somehow incorporate one of the franchise’s most popular characters into this series, they wouldn’t take it. And I can’t say I blame them, even if the stranger’s presence doesn’t quite fits into existing knowledge about where Gandalf came from or when he arrived in Middle-earth. (Details, right?) But since Gandalf is one of the Maiar (angels, primordial spirits) who were known to visit Middle-earth occasionally to check on things, it is not impossible.

At first, the stranger basically looks like a crazy wizard, and his strange abilities (the booming screech, his affinity for speaking in error, writing in symbols) all seem to suggest that he is a being with some kind of magic. His initial connection with Nori the Harfoot could foreshadow Gandalf’s own long-standing interest in and connection to the Hobbits who will one day be their descendants, and his fall to the earth engulfed in fire is eerily similar to Gandalf’s fall through Moria with the Balrog and his subsequent resurrection afterwards.

Bonus points for the fact that the stranger is impervious to fire, which also happens to be Gandalf’s Maiar lineup. (He will eventually wear the elven ring Narya, the Ring of Fire, in the future.)

Another Istari

Although viewers of Rings of power will be familiar with several other members of Gandalf’s Istari order – the wizards Radagast the Brown and Saruman the White – it’s unlikely that either of them is the Stranger, simply given what we know of their respective stories and histories. Saruman’s web of deceit and betrayal is complicated enough without pushing him into this series, and the stranger doesn’t seem to be in tune enough with nature to be Radagast, even if he’s got the borderline madness down.