Since Season 1, The Rings of Power has been slowly revealing the origin story of the worst villain in all of Middle-earth, the Dark Lord Sauron, creator of the One Ring, and arguably the most famous baddie in all of fantasy fiction. Having said that, Rings of Power has one advantage over the original Lord of the Rings books from J.R.R. Tolkien, or even the beloved Peter Jackson films: at this point in time, in the Second Age of Middle-earth, Sauron still has a physical form and is a person we can see, rather than a presence or disembodied consciousness to fear. In the time of Frodo in The Lord of the Rings, Sauron’s most feared minions are nine men who have retained their rings of power, and as such have physical bodies — sort of. These are the wispy and horrible Ringwraiths, also known as the Nazgûl, nine Kings of Men who were forever transformed and made into eternal servants of Sauron and the Rings.
But who were these guys? In real-deal Tolkien canon, none of the exact names of the Nazgûl were ever revealed, and only “The Witch King,” the lead Ringwraith, was given a proper name. But now, with Rings of Power Season 3, the identity of one Ringwraith will be revealed. According to a new report from Empire, a new character, Khamûl the Easterling (Zubin Varla), will become a Nazgnagôl; a “ring servant,” a proto-version of a full Nazgûl.
