The Elf Lord Celeborn became an immortal meme template when, in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, he asked, “Tell me, where is Gandalf?” Ironically, we’ve been feeling much the same way about Celeborn himself — at least when it comes to his whereabouts in Prime Video’s Lord of the Rings prequel, The Rings of Power. The series takes place a good thousand years before the events of Fellowship, but it’s taken major creative liberties with J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings legendarium. While Galadriel (Morfydd Clark) is the ostensible star of this series, her husband Celeborn has been missing in action since The Rings of Power Season 1.
According to Galadriel, Celeborn disappeared centuries prior in a battle with Morgoth, the original Dark Lord of Middle-earth. As he never turned up afterwards, Galadriel assumed he’d been murdered — and though she grieves in the quiet way of the Elves, she’s more or less moved on. In The Rings of Power’s first two seasons, she accidentally stumbled into a situationship with Morgoth’s successor, Sauron (Charlie Vickers). In Season 3 — which picks up after a major time jump — she’ll still be dealing with the fallout. Our heroine’s life will get all the more complicated with the return of Celeborn: Stranger Things’ Jamie Campbell Bower joins the series as Galadriel’s long-lost husband, but where has he been all this time?
