LORD OF THE RINGS AGES SERIES
īut – plot twist – last week dropped a bombshell by tweeting out a map of Middle-earth showing Númenor (!!!!!), with a short and sweet follow-up: “Welcome to the Second Age.” The account, which Amazon created in November 2018, didn’t start tweeting anything until February, slow dripping a series of cryptic Middle-earth maps which were mysteriously missing familiar labels. The creative team has been holed away in a writer’s room somewhere in Santa Monica, with security so tight it involves fingerprint scanners for access. In the meantime, details of the project have been closely guarded. Though personally, I feared that such a direction would amount to a mediocre fan-fiction trying to appeal to casual fans by being too closely connected to Peter Jackson’s original trilogy (and turn into another “Hobbit” debacle). This at least resonated with our suspicions, since the Appendices offer brief mention of a younger Aragorn journeying in Rohan and Gondor under the alias Thorongil. The next major detail to surface came in May 2018 when tweeted that “multiple sources” confirmed the show’s first season would focus on a young Aragorn.
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So the fan base begin speculating which materials from the LOTR Appendices Amazon might try to adapt (additional works like The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales presumably being off limits due to book rights). Shortly after the initial announcement, we were fortunately assured that the series wouldn’t be a simple rehashing of the actual LOTR trilogy, but would rather cover stories set before the events of The Fellowship of the Ring. Since the show’s announcement in November 2017, details have been rolled out at a snail’s pace.
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Amazon’s recent tease that their upcoming Lord of the Rings series will actually focus on the Second Age of Middle-earth has a lot of Tolkien nerds (myself included) abuzz with excitement and speculation.