Today Amazon officially unveiled the first look atGame of ThronesandRomeactor Ciaran Hinds new character.

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Theres already plenty of reason to believe thatThe Rings of Poweris setting up Weymans Stranger to become Gandalf.

Time will tell, whenThe Rings of Powerreturns to Amazon August 29.

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