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Originally Posted by IAMTHISNOW
So the scope of the show is the entire history of the second age?
Right up till Isildur refuses to throw the ring in mount doom?
That is 50 years of television at this pace.
Yes, but they're doing some weird things to compress the timeline though. There should have been 25 Numenorean kings spanning 3000+ years of the second age, but they've completely skipped over the first 23, mostly to avoid the problem of having to replace the entire human cast every other episode. On the other hand, they're presumably telling the story of the rise of Sauon and the creation of the rings of power, which happened a couple thousand years before that point in Numenorean history. Also with the dwarves, Durin IV is supposed to be the reincarnation of Durin III after his death, but in the show they have them alive together as father & son. They're being very vague about what year it actually is because they're not really following Tolkien's chronology, but just mashing up the major second age events to make it feel like they're all happening around the same time.
And despite the long time period, there's not actually that much known second age history to tell, which is why they're having to add their own original storylines as well.
Last edited by Ungoliant; 10-10-2022 at 11:49 AM.