View original postBut jamming both of the major storylines in the Second Age, the forging of the Rings and the fall of Numenor, into the same story, they are burning through all the material to which they have the rights in one shot. They could introduce Numenor under the benevolent reign of Tar-Ministir, they could show the friendship between the Men of the West and the Elves, and show it deteriorating from the Elves' perspective, then a time jump to Elendil's era to show what Numenor has become since the Elves lost contact. As it is, they are practically introduced as villains, before we find out that Elendil and family are not so bad. We never get the Fall, just have them bad from the start.