“The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” goes way back in Middle-earth lore, thousands of years before “The Lord of the Rings.” It’s loosely based on the supplemental texts and appendices that J.R.R. Tolkien wrote to flesh out his fictional universe. While we’ll definitely see a few familiar characters along the way, there are also some new ones, like the Harfoots.
In Tolkien lore, the Harfoots are essentially proto-Hobbits, the ancient ancestors of the Hobbits we know and love…