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Daniel Weyman Shares His Reaction Finding Out He Was [SPOILER] in TheRingsofPower He also talks about [spoiler], the Balrog, and not being told anything before reading the season finale script.
With the fantastic season finale of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power now streaming on Prime Video, earlier today I spoke with Daniel Weyman about playing the Stranger and the season finale. As you saw in the first half of the episode, the finale made you think the Stranger was the Dark Lord Sauron, which was an expected twist.
With most fans thinking Weyman is playing Gandalf, Saruman, or a completely different character, I tried to find out what he knows. Since The Rings of Power takes place in the Second Age and in the books, Tolkien introduces Gandalf and Saruman in the Third Age, either showrunners Patrick McKay and John D. Payne are making some changes to the source material, or the Stranger is a character no one is expecting.
I felt strongly that it wasn't for me to say at that point, "Oh, actually you're wrong. It's going to be this character, it's going to be this character." But actually, to allow them to come on that journey and experience it in as real time as the character does, I felt was a blessing. So that's sort of where I leave season one, that yeah, we have found out a little bit more. The brushstrokes are now even more clear.
WEYMAN: Right. And I think that Tolkien gave us enough ... Not only did he give us enough of basic source material to legitimately follow any one of those three strands that you just brought up, but he also contradicted himself enough, certainly towards those really later works that were not published by him. So he wrote a huge amount that actually leaves quite a lot of scope for us to invent.
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