The biggest offender here was the Harfoot story.

This isn’t something that anyone understands in the Second Age, nor should they.

Harfoots shouldn’t even be a blip on Sauron’s radar at this point.

Largo (Dylan Smith), Nori (Markella Kavenagh), and Poppy (Megan Richards) in ‘The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power.'

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This isn’t to say that the Harfoots haven’t been important up until now, of course.

Nori and Poppy were vital to Gandalf’s journey in the first season.

Hey, if Gandalf and Nori can do it after all this time, then so can we.

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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Poweris available for streaming on Prime Video.

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Epic drama set thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘The Hobbit’ and ‘The Lord of the Rings’ follows an ensemble cast of characters, both familiar and new, as they confront the long-feared re-emergence of evil to Middle-earth.

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