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The show is projected to progress at least five seasons[5][6] and some 50-hours of TV[7], and - possibly with a spinoff - over a period of eight to ten years;[8][9] and, as of November 2019, the first two seasons have been greenlit.[10] In January 2020, Amazon announced that the first season would consist of eight episodes.[11] The Tolkien Estate will reportedly have veto-power "on strategy and on vision"[12] and will maintain the "main shape of the Second Age".[13]
Premise

First look image, released by Amazon on August 2, 2021

The plot will cover events of the Second Age. A preliminary interactive map, featured on the Amazon Prime Video site,[14] pointed towards the show being set in the mid-Second Age, circa SA 1500-1701. However, characters from a much later period in the Second Age, such as Elendil and Isildur will also appear. The two periods will be condensed into a single timeline, to prevent jumps in time.[7] Both periods do not focus on an adventure story, but rather Machiavellian drama.[7]

The earlier of the two epochs is centered around the forging of the Rings of Power in Eregion, whereby Sauron (disguised as Annatar) convinces Celebrimbor and the Gwaith-i-Mírdain guild to forge Rings of Power, against the advice of Galadriel and Gil-galad: in some versions of the story, Annatar even convinces the conflicted Celebrimbor to lead a coup that ousts Galadriel.[15] A leaked story synopsis[16] also points in this direction, as well as towards concurrent events in other realms of Middle-earth, namely Moria, and Lindon: led by Gil-galad and Durin III, respectively, they are trying to maintain their foreign relations with Eregion as it falls under Annatar's influence, and then fending his forces off during the War of Sauron and the Elves.[15] Many of these plot-lines will have to play-out in isolation before the war causes them to intersect, and as such as said to have separate units producing them.[17]

However, the inclusion of Isildur and Elendil indicates the Akallabêth, set in the late Second Age, will be concurrently adapted, likely up to the events of the War of the Last Alliance and possibly the Disaster of the Gladden Fields.

While time-jumps were once rumored,[18][19][17] and even experimented with in early development,[20] the final series features a condensed timeline, with executive Jennifer Salke indicating it is "one big series"[21] and that season one will be "building the infrastructure of what will sustain the whole series."[22]
Source material

The series will explore times millennia before the years of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring. Amazon may not incorporate events of the Third Age[13], while events from the First Age and previous eras, such as the Years of the Trees and Years of the Lamps could only "be mentioned at the most if they explain the events of the Second Age", unless they are taken directly from mentions in The Lord of the Rings.[23][24] A first-look image seems to showcase the city of Tirion. The showrunners said that ""We have the rights solely to The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King, the Appendices, and The Hobbit, and that is it. We do not have the rights to The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, The History of Middle-earth, or any of those other books.” However, the inclusion of Tirion and other elements would suggest that more material could be licensed to them on an ad-hoc basis.

Early on, New Line executives told HDRF the show will reprise visuals from the films,[25] and this was also the impression given to Peter Jackson from his talks with the executives, saying "the showrunners will "try to have a series and a world where it sort of fits with the films",[26] and "in the same world" as his films, agreeing to share his designs.[27] This was reiterated by John Howe, who said "The show runners are determined to remain faithful to the existing trilogies"[28] and that "its a continuation."[29] Orlando Bloom, having looked into the matter through Amazon producers, seems to have arrived at the same conclusion, as well, saying that "its not a remake"[30] However, "if only for legal reasons", the show cannot replicate specific props from the films, but has a similar design aesthetic.[31] Executive Jennifer Salke pointed out that "we’re also not starting from scratch."[21] Lead actress Morfydd Clark said she struggles with not being an "imposter" of the movie actors, saying "There’s a huge amount of respect for the films.”[32][33]

Source material for these periods includes mentions of the relevant events made in The Lord of the Rings, including in Appendix A (The Númenórean Kings: Númenor) and Appendix B (The Tale of Years: The Second Age), but apparently also material licensed "other related works, in each case written or inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien"[34], which can include "Akallabêth" and "Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age" from The Silmarillion,[17] Unfinished Tales, namely "The History of Galadriel and Celeborn" and "The Line of Elros: Kings of Númenor." 


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