Amazon Studios’ forthcoming series brings to screens for the very first time the heroic legends of the fabled Second Age of Middle-earth’s history. This epic drama is set thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, and will take viewers back to an era in which great powers were forged, kingdoms rose to glory and fell to ruin, unlikely heroes were tested, hope hung by the finest of threads, and the greatest villain that ever flowed from Tolkien’s pen threatened to cover all the world in darkness. Beginning in a time of relative peace, the series follows an ensemble cast of characters, both familiar and new, as they confront the long-feared re-emergence of evil to Middle-earth. From the darkest depths of the Misty Mountains, to the majestic forests of the elf-capital of Lindon, to the breathtaking island kingdom of Númenor, to the furthest reaches of the map, these kingdoms and characters will carve out legacies that live on long after they are gone.
At its core, the Second Age is about the conflicts that arose between various kingdoms of man, elves, and dwarves with Sauron often driving the conflicts from behind the scenes. Its really a fantasy version of the same political intrigue that plagued Europe in the middle ages. Only in Middle-Earth terms these events take place over thousands of years as everyone involved are verly long lived. I imagine Amazon plans on condensing the time line significantly (or at least ignoring it) since the rise and fall of many of the kingdoms could probably be told as if events occured on a 100 year or so time scale. If interested in an overview of the known history of Middle-Earth, its worth reading the timeline put together by Collider.
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