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The second Age is the time of the fall of Numenor, the Elvish split over Sauron and the creation of the Rings, the setting up of Arnor and Gondor and the Last Alliance.
The second Age is the time of the fall of Numenor, the Elvish split over Sauron and the creation of the Rings, the setting up of Arnor and Gondor and the Last Alliance.
There's political intrigue, world altering cataclysms, gigantic battles, betrayals, power... Quite a lot of fodder for great TV.
Which is all an rough outline of events that happened over hundreds of years. There is very little down on the ground or character stories for Second Age canon.
In other words... Them placing it in the Second Age, is basically them all but coming out and saying that they're wanting to turn it into a GoT clone wearing a Tolkien skin.
Adherence to "canon" isn't really that important. What is though, is adherence to the spirit of what is being adapted, and... There just isn't very much to WORK with in the Second Age. As it was more summarized then shown.
Númenor! Amazon's LOTR Series To Be Set During The Second Age
- 07/03/2019 05:56:47 PM
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The article about this on tor.com raises some good points...
- 07/03/2019 07:52:43 PM
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All the Tolkien books are now 0.00 through Kindle Unlimited.
- 07/03/2019 09:54:46 PM
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Sure they could. But I wish either they or the Tolkien Estate would announce it. *NM*
- 07/03/2019 09:59:14 PM
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As with things of this nature....
- 07/03/2019 10:06:08 PM
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Speaking of food
- 07/03/2019 10:46:58 PM
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No, see....here's the deal.
- 07/03/2019 11:02:54 PM
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Yeah, I don't judge what other people eat except for Chicagoans eating deep dish"pizza".
- 08/03/2019 01:30:24 AM
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Honestly... The Second Age is probably the most boring time to place it.
- 08/03/2019 07:33:32 PM
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That isn't close to true, if you've read beyond LotR
- 08/03/2019 08:38:12 PM
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Maybe he/she/they haven't read The Silmarilion or Unfinished Tales
- 08/03/2019 08:47:16 PM
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Got the entire HoEM series with my birthday money one year when I was going through my Tolkien phase
- 09/03/2019 07:08:45 AM
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Yet... It is though.
- 09/03/2019 06:52:45 AM
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Most of it takes place in only one generation, though.
- 09/03/2019 11:10:52 AM
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At the least they could reverse the character assassination of Isildur
- 09/03/2019 11:28:28 AM
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Re: At the least they could reverse the character assassination of Isildur
- 11/03/2019 04:07:27 AM
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This is the correct take.