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You shall not pass! This article contains minor spoilers for “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” Season 3, Episodes 1-4.
After two years, “The Rings of Power” is back and as sprawling as ever. In fact, it may be even more so than it already was. Seasons 1 and 2 of the Prime Video series took us all over the map (quite literally, thanks to all those nifty map transitions), from the island kingdom of Númenor far in the West to the volcanic wastes of Mordor in the East. Season 3 expands the borders of Middle-earth even further, taking us to new locations and introducing multiple new characters to keep track of — some of whom seem more trustworthy than others.
Somewhere in the middle of all this is the Dwarf prince known as Thráin,
