AI Summary

Season 3 of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power attempts to redress the series’ earlier omission of a wizard storyline by confirming that the mysterious “Stranger” is Gandalf, even though Tolkien’s timeline places his arrival thousands of years later in the Third Age. The show’s off‑book decision reshapes the expected chronology, where Gandalf, Saruman and Radagast are meant to come after Sauron’s defeat in the Last Alliance, while only the two Blue Wizards, Alatar and Pallando, might have existed in the Second Age. This adjustment highlights the series’ divergence from Tolkien’s original framework.

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