Quote (addone @ Oct 7 2022 03:24am)
Halbrand aka King of the south lands (mordor) , aka blue wizard aka sauron pretended to be wounded. As soon as he baited Galadriel to take him to the elves got up on the horse like he barely had a scratch.
Everyone should of been dead from that much exposure of methane and toxic gases of the eruption. They didn't even take 1 point of damage. Writers gave everyone poison immunity.
Adar is the most soy Uruk in existence his special power is just to look out into the horizon and be purposefully cryptic.
If the stranger is Sauron he's likely not pretending. He is a maiar, so if he did die from Adar killing his physical body his soul would move beyond the mortal realm and reconstitute then return to earth. when he came back he would be confused, similar to how Gandalf the White hardly remembered ever being Gandalf the Gray. and of course by the time we see Gandalf in two towers he's been back on middle earth for a bit, wandering around.
I still think its far more likely the stranger is proto-gandalf.
they've introduced the balrog of moria in now the 2nd age, despite his cannon emergence being in the 3rd age. so why not also push back gandalf's origin as fan service. but sauron is a good 2nd guess imo. blue wizard also potentially it.
This post was edited by thesnipa on Oct 10 2022 02:16pm