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The entire first season of Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power was shrouded in mystery until days before the series premiere, but no aspect of the show was kept more vague than Daniel Weyman’s character dubbed The Stranger. We learn in the first episode that The Stranger arrives in Middle-earth via comet and for a while, he was suspected to be Sauron in a new form. We soon learned that Sauron was actually masquerading as Hallbrand (Charlie Vickers), but we learned that The Stranger is an “Istar” or, as the Harfoots say more colloquially, a wizard.
That narrows down who The Stranger is in Lord of the Rings lore quite a bit, with all signs pointing to him evolving into the Gandalf we all know and love. Officially, the character is still nameless in Season 2and setting out on an adventure to find …