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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is an American fantasy television series developed by J. D. Payne and Patrick McKay for the streaming service Amazon Prime Video.It is based on J. R. R. Tolkien's history of Middle-earth, primarily material from the appendices of the novel The Lord of the Rings (1954–55).
He is a wizard, one of the Istari order, and the leader of the Company of the Ring. Tolkien took the name "Gandalf" from the Old Norse "Catalogue of Dwarves" in the Völuspá. As a wizard and the bearer of one of the Three Rings, Gandalf has great power, but works mostly by encouraging and persuading. He sets out as Gandalf the Grey, possessing ...
The Season 2 finale of "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power" has confirmed what many fans suspected all along about the Stranger. ... always intended to be Gandalf, a powerful wizard also ...
Okay, but what about the other wizard? The resolution of one mystery leads to another. Before making this self-discovery, Gandalf rejects an offer to hang with the Dark Wizard, played by Ciarán ...
Early in the first volume, The Fellowship of the Ring, the wizard Gandalf describes Saruman as "the chief of my order" [T 1] and head of the White Council that forced Sauron from Mirkwood at the end of Tolkien's earlier book The Hobbit. [T 2] He notes Saruman's great knowledge of the Rings of Power created by Sauron and by the Elven-smiths.
After the Stranger turns this sobriquet around in his mouth a little bit, he streamlines it into his iconic name: “Gandalf.” Related: Evil takes root: Darkness rises in The Rings of Power season 2
Wizards like Gandalf were immortal Maiar, but took the form of Men.. The Wizards or Istari in J. R. R. Tolkien's fiction were powerful angelic beings, Maiar, who took the form of Men to intervene in the affairs of Middle-earth in the Third Age, after catastrophically violent direct interventions by the Valar, and indeed by the one god Eru Ilúvatar, in the earlier ages.
“The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” is taking J.R.R. Tolkien fans back to Middle-earth. Thanks to Amazon Prime, the streamer is expanding the “LOTR” universe with a prequel series ...