Fellowship of Fans is back with their spoiler scoops videos now for season 3 of "Rings of Power"!!! 😀 Like I did before I'll post over here what they said and link it. They also post videos with them theorizing what's going on and could happen too on YT. Today's they've been able to narrow it down more to who Jamie Campbell Bower is playing and they know who he's not playing. I've also included my theory of who he likely is with hit too, and the other 2 are about the plots and costumes. But glad we're getting spoilers again as there's been a lot of set pics since they've been filming more outdoors in both Great Windsor this month and were in Wales at least 2 months besides in studio.
Jamie's officially playing an elf, and a well-known leading book elf at that. We already knew about the "high born knight" part being part of his casting call but also now that he's the biggest character they cast this season and why he's a series regular instead of recurring. They've found out he's not playing Thranduil or Oropher (and their video for these scoops said they have no indication those 2 characters are even in season 3), so it narrows it down to what many have suspected that he's either Celeborn or Glorfindel, which both were confirmed to be coming on the show at some point by the writers at San Diego Comic Con 2024.
I'm actually part of the group that thinks he's Glorfindel and their YT breaks down the two sides and how either works. For me personally story wise and comparing it to the books, where we are in the show with the War of the Elves and Sauron, this is when Glorfindel comes back. It's a major event that needs to happen on the show. He is a leading book character in "The Silmarillion", "Unfinished Tales", and more and actually features from in those than Celeborn really. He's also given powers like the Maiar by the Valar to help the elves fight Sauron, which this ties into Jamie playing Vecna on "Stranger Things" and his powers and could be a reason the show cast him. Jamie's also following Ismael on Instagram too now, which could mean they've filmed together. There's been a long theory in the show that Celeborn has been under the power and working for the Dark Wizard in Rhun. This would work with Glorfindel coming back to Middle Earth after being dead and Galadriel finds out Celeborn never died, and then decides to go find him. The general audience and most of us Haladriel shippers don't have a connection to Celeborn and I think this would be the way to finally get us invested in this and build up to Celeborn coming back, and another actor will then play Celeborn when he's discovered. So unless something changes I fully believe Jamie is playing Glorfindel and Celeborn's actor hasn't been revealed yet and/or still hasn't been cast.
The 2nd scoop was plot wise the elves are going to ask Numenor for help and this season is focused a lot again on the elves. Numenor has their own plots too, so it seems the theory of Sauron being captured by them in the 3rd season finale is likely correct.
Then the final scoop was with the time jump a lot of the male elves have grown out their hair long and there's more wigs. Likely is Elrond and Arondir and maybe a few others, but they'll be looking closer to how they do in the movies.
