Game of Thrones has given us some of the most iconic battles on TV. Fans still get chills watching Jon (Kit Harington) and his men struggling to breathe during the Battle of the Bastards, while no one can forget the thrill of watching Tyrion’s (Peter Dinklage) wildfire explosion engulfing Stannis’ (Stephen Dillane) army in the Battle of Blackwater, or the chaos of Hardhome. The list is genuinely endless.
But there’s still one battle that’s considered the bloodiest across the Game of Thrones universe that we haven’t seen, and it’s just on the horizon. The Battle of Gullet will be featured in the premiere episode of House of the Dragon Season 3. As fans know, the battle was supposed to be the final episode of Season 2, but was pushed back due to ongoing strikes at the time. However, as per HBO, the premiere episode of House of the Dragon will give ample time to the legendary battle with a longer runtime.
As per HBO’s schedule, House of the Dragon Season 3, episode 1 will be 72 minutes long, and it is expected that the runtime will contain the credit roll and the ‘Inside the Episode’ segment that is shown at the end of most HBO episodes. However, the runtime is still lengthier than previous premieres: season 1 at 65 minutes and season 2 at 58 minutes. The 72-minute runtime is fitting for massive set pieces and a twist that book fans know is coming.
Collider Exclusive · Middle-earth Quiz Which Lord of the Rings Race Do You Belong To? Hobbit · Elf · Dwarf · Man · Orc
Middle-earth is home to many peoples — the courageous, the ancient, the stubborn, the ambitious, and the wretched. Ten questions will determine which race truly claims your soul. The answer may surprise you. Or it may confirm what you already suspected.
🌿Hobbit
🌟Elf
⚒️Dwarf
⚔️Man
💀Orc
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What does your ideal day look like? How we rest reveals as much as how we fight.
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How do you feel about the passing of time? Our relationship with mortality shapes everything we value.
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Danger is approaching. Your first instinct is to: Fight, flight, or something in between — it’s more revealing than you’d think.
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You stumble upon a great treasure. What do you feel? What we desire — and what we do about it — is the true test.
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How important is community and belonging to you? No race of Middle-earth is truly alone — but some prefer it that way.
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How ambitious are you, honestly? Ambition is neither virtue nor vice — it depends entirely on what you want.
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Where do you feel most at home in the natural world? Middle-earth is vast — and every race has its place within it.
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What kind of strength do you most respect? Every race defines strength differently — and they’re all at least a little right.
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What do you want to leave behind when you’re gone? Legacy is the story we tell ourselves about why any of this matters.
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Be honest — what do you actually want most out of life? The truest question always comes last.
Middle-earth Has Spoken You Belong To…
The race that claimed the most of your answers is your true kin. If two tied, both are shown — you walk between worlds.
◆ A TIE — YOU WALK BETWEEN TWO RACES ◆
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Your Race
The Hobbits
You are, at your core, a creature of comfort, community, and quiet joy — and there is nothing small about that. Hobbits are proof that heroism does not require ambition, that the bravest heart can beat inside the most unassuming chest. You value good food, warm hearths, close friends, and a world that stays largely untroubled by dark lords and quests. When adventure does find you — and it will — you rise to it not because you sought it, but because the people you love needed you to. That is not ordinary. That is the rarest kind of courage in all of Middle-earth.
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Your Race
The Elves
Ancient, graceful, and carrying a weight of memory most mortals cannot fathom, you are one of the Elves. You see the world in its fullness — its beauty, its impermanence, the unbearable ache of watching everything you love eventually fade. You pursue perfection not from pride, but because excellence is how you honour the time you have been given. Others may see you as remote or melancholy. They are not wrong, exactly. But they mistake depth for distance. You feel everything — which is precisely why you have learned to carry it so quietly.
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Your Race
The Dwarves
Stubborn, proud, fiercely loyal, and possessed of a work ethic that would exhaust most other races before breakfast — you are Dwarf-kind through and through. You do not ask for approval and you do not offer it cheaply. Your loyalty, once given, is given for life. Your grudges last longer. You love deeply and defend ferociously, and the things you build — with your hands, with your sweat, with generations of accumulated craft — are made to last. Not for glory. Because anything worth doing is worth doing properly, and you have never once done anything by half measures.
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Your Race
The Race of Men
Mortal, ambitious, flawed, and magnificent — you belong to the most complicated race in Middle-earth, and that complexity is your greatest strength. Men are capable of cowardice and extraordinary bravery, of cruelty and breathtaking sacrifice, sometimes within the same breath. You feel the urgency of your finite years, and it drives you. You want to matter. You want to leave something behind. You fall, and you rise, and the rising is what defines you. Tolkien called mortality the Gift of Men — not a curse, but a fire that burns bright precisely because it does not burn forever. That fire is you.
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Your Race
The Orcs
Brutal, survivalist, and contemptuous of anything that can’t defend itself — you answered with the instincts of an Orc, and there is a certain savage honesty in that. You do not dress up your desires in polite language or pretend you want things you don’t. You want power, survival, and to never be at the bottom of any hierarchy ever again. Orcs are not evil by nature — they were made from something that was once good, and broken into this shape by forces they did not choose. What remains is fierce, territorial, and deeply aware that the world is not kind. You’ve made your peace with that. The question is what you do with it.
What To Expect From ‘House of the Dragon’ Season 3?
Fire, blood, and grief can be the words to describe what’s going to happen in the upcoming season. The first two seasons were spent in building the story till this point of the Battle of Gullet, the biggest showdown between the Blacks and the Greens. The series has given us Red Sowing, which gained Rhaenyra two dragon riders, and Rook’s Rest, which saw the end of Rhaenys and her dragon. So the third season is all about big action set pieces and Rhaenyra’s struggle to maintain her power. As for the imminent battle, showrunner Ryan Condal, previously teased, “It should be, I mean, based on what we know now, it should be the biggest thing to date that we’ve pulled off, and we just wanted to have the time and the space to do that at a level that is going to excite and satisfy the fans in the way it’s deserved.”
Check out the new season of House of the Dragon on June 21. Stay tuned to Collider for more such updates.
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