There’s a lot going on in The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power. Prime Video’s fantasy epic has its hands full with a sprawling chapter of Middle-earth history: while it mostly follows the struggle between the Dark Lord Sauron and the Last Alliance of Elves and Men, that story notably spans centuries of Tolkien lore. The Rings of Power wisely took its time to establish a major conflict, but it also took its fair share of artistic liberties. As Season 3 enters production, it’ll have to work overtime to keep this adaptation in line with canon... but two new characters could be arriving to make that task just a bit easier.
The third season of The Rings of Power will feature two new faces in Jamie Campbell Bower (Stranger Things, The Mortal Instruments) and Eddie Marsan (Ray Donovan, Sherlock Holmes). Bower has been cast as a series regular, and Marsan will play a recurring role — but their specific roles in the series are being kept under wraps. That said, theories are quickly beginning to take shape. Deadline suggests that Marsan may be playing a dwarf, while Bower could play “a handsome high-born knight,” a potential love interest for the Elven warrior Galadriel (Morfydd Clark). It’s not a lot to go on, and Deadline’s intel may not be entirely accurate. But it could have gotten one thing right about Bower’s mystery man, at least where his connection to Galadriel is concerned.
