This is sort of the best thing that has happened to LOTR fans since Oscar night 2004. But as we learned from The Hobbit, this stuff is highly execution-dependent.Amazon confirmed that the Lord of the Rings series will be set during the Second Age of Middle-earth, which is the era when the Rings of Power were first created and the evil Sauron first rose to power. But what does the Isle of Numenor have to do with that?
It is also interesting, because the initial reports were that the series (or at least the first season) would focus on young Aragorn, and later material would be drawn from the LOTR Appendices. While the Changing of the World is talked about there, it's much more Silmarillion type content, which I thought was off limits. (And I must admit I've only listened to as an audio book, I've never read it.)
That sort of undersells it a bit.... the Númenóreans tried to steal eternal life from the Valar, and, well, it didn't go very well. (And by "didn't go very well", I mean the Ilúvatar changed the physical geography of Arda to bury the attacking host alive under mountains that were created when Arda was turned from a flat world into a ball, and the Undying Lands were separated from the physical realm.)After a cataclysmic event that involves a clash with the gods...
"There will come a day when LOTR On Prime will not post a map. BUT IT IS NOT THIS DAY!"
