Which The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Character Are You?

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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is Amazon Prime Video's sweeping return to Middle-earth, set thousands of years before the events of the Peter Jackson film trilogy. Rather than retelling Frodo and Sam's journey to Mount Doom, the series digs into the Second Age of Middle-earth — the forging of the titular Rings of Power, the rise of Sauron in disguise, and the slow, tragic decline of the island kingdom of Númenor.

At the center of it all is Galadriel, played by Morfydd Clark, centuries before she becomes the serene elven queen fans know from the films. Here she's a warrior consumed by grief and vengeance after her brother's death, convinced that the enemy she's hunting is still out there long after everyone else has declared the war over. Her stubbornness is both her greatest strength and her most dangerous flaw — it's exactly what makes her vulnerable to manipulation by a stranger calling himself Halbrand.

That stranger, of course, is eventually revealed to be Sauron himself, and the show has built much of its tension around watching him charm, mislead, and manipulate nearly everyone he meets, including Galadriel. By Season 3, Sauron has traded subtlety for open war, rebuilding his power base in Mordor and forcing the free peoples of Middle-earth into increasingly desperate alliances.

Elrond, played by Robert Aramayo, offers a very different model of leadership — diplomatic, careful, and deeply loyal to both his elven kin and his dwarven friends in Khazad-dûm. His friendship with Prince Durin IV became one of the show's most beloved relationships, and his instinct to build bridges rather than walls puts him repeatedly at odds with more hawkish voices among the elves.

Then there's the ground-level view of this sweeping saga: Arondir, a Silvan elf stationed in the Southlands who falls in love with a human woman named Bronwyn, and Nori Brandyfoot, a Harfoot whose curiosity about a mysterious fallen stranger (who turns out to be a wandering wizard) kicks off one of the show's most charming subplots. Both characters ground the show's cosmic stakes in small, personal choices — which is very on-brand for a franchise built on the idea that even the smallest person can change the course of the future.

Whether you're drawn to Galadriel's fire, Sauron's cunning, Elrond's wisdom, Arondir's quiet devotion, or Nori's wanderlust, this quiz will help you figure out which Second Age hero (or villain) you'd actually be. For another fantasy epic built around impossible choices, check out our original Lord of the Rings quiz too.

Season 3 raises the stakes further by pushing the show's timeline closer to the forging of the remaining Rings of Power and the founding of the Last Alliance between Elves and Men, events long-time Tolkien readers know are barreling toward catastrophe. That sense of dramatic irony — watching characters build alliances and technologies that fans already know will eventually be turned against them — gives even the show's quieter political scenes a constant undercurrent of dread, and it's part of what has kept the fandom so engaged season after season.