8 Times Rings Of Power Has Foreshadowed The Fates Of Its Characters

We’ve officially hit the halfway point in Season 1 of Prime Video’s Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power–and, make no mistake, there’s still plenty of mystery left on the table. The Second Age of Middle-earth is as ambiguous as it’s ever been and, with four more episodes left in this season–and a whopping five season run planned already–it’s safe to say we’re going to have to keep guessing for a while now. But be that as it may, with these four episodes under our belt, we’ve been given plenty of clues and hints to start making some educated guesses about the future of these characters.

Rings of Power has been layering in tons and tons of foreshadowing with every member of its massive ensemble cast–from tiny details to major plot points, it hasn’t been shy about teasing what’s coming. Some of these hints are easy to spot–it doesn’t take a Tolkien scholar to know that the Dwarves’ mining operations for Mithril are going to end in tragedy–but others have been a little more obscure. And some, we’d be remiss to not mention, might even be red herrings meant to play with our expectations for seasons in the future. There’s absolutely nothing to say that Rings of Power can’t dodge and duck around established canon elements of the Second Age and subvert some of our expectations. We simply don’t have enough information yet to know.

But we do have enough information to start speculating wildly, so naturally that’s what we’re going to do. Here are the biggest pieces of foreshadowing in the first half of Season 1 of Rings of Power, what they might mean, and how we can expect them to pay off down the line.