# Amazon LOTR synopsis leaked
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-lotr-synopsis-leaked/931215
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Tags:** middle-earth, amazon-prime, tv-shows-scripted
**Created:** [January 22, 2021, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-lotr-synopsis-leaked/931215 "2021-01-22T15:10:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2021, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-lotr-synopsis-leaked/931215/1 "2021-01-22T15:10:32Z")
I followed [theonering.net](http://theonering.net) (TORN) before and during the movies. TORN definitely had some scoops. I haven’t looked recently. They found a synopsis of the new Amazon series, and has been apparently confirmed.
> **[EXCLUSIVE: Official Show Synopsis for Amazon’s LORD OF THE RINGS Series](https://www.theonering.net/torwp/2021/01/12/110065-exclusive-official-show-synopsis-for-amazons-lord-of-the-rings-series/)**
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> Fans have waited patiently for 3 years, since Amazon announced they acquired the TV rights to LORD OF THE RINGS, to get an idea of what a new Middle-earth show will be about. We finally have the answer, thanks to an incredible spy report....
TLDR: Second Age, “beginning in a time of relative peace”, will include Númenor.
Brian
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### Author:  [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2021, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-lotr-synopsis-leaked/931215/2 "2021-01-22T16:09:09Z")
If it’s a sequel, then perhaps this should be addressed:
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qullWVe6gQg)
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### Author:  [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2021, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-lotr-synopsis-leaked/931215/3 "2021-01-22T16:27:40Z")
a) It is a prequel (LOTR = late Third Age, this series is in the Second Age)
b) FYI the above is NSFW
c) The eagle thing has been refuted many times (summary, no, they could’t just use the eagles as a taxi service)
Brian
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### Author:  [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2021, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-lotr-synopsis-leaked/931215/4 "2021-01-22T20:04:01Z")
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> the fabled Second Age of Middle-earth’s history[…]the series follows an ensemble cast of characters, both familiar and new
So I guess Elrond and Galadriel are in it. Gandalf wasn’t around in the Second Age, so not him. I’m trying to think of anyone else ‘familiar’ from the 3rd age and I think that’s it.
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2021, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-lotr-synopsis-leaked/931215/5 "2021-01-22T20:16:51Z")
Celeborn & Cirdan could be in it.
Fangorn (Treebeard) of course.
Thranduil for sure.
Gil-Galad and Celebrimbor.
Glorfindel is possible, towards the end of his life, the Professor decided Glorfindel came back in the middle of the 2nd age.
Durin III was also middle of the 2nd age.
Then Tom Bombadil & probably Old Man Willow are options.
Smaug is an option.
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### Author:  [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2021, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-lotr-synopsis-leaked/931215/6 "2021-01-22T21:27:21Z")
Well, I was thinking ‘familiar’ characters who were in the movies\*, since this is a television show. But even if you include the books those movies are based on, (minus the Tale of Years, otherwise _everybody_ is ‘familiar’), Gil-Galad and Celebrimbor aren’t there, nor Durin III. The rest I’ll give you.
\*though I reject that the Hobbit movies ever happened, yech.
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### Author:  [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2021, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-lotr-synopsis-leaked/931215/7 "2021-01-23T06:40:59Z")
The second age was thousands of years long, and only the elven characters and Sauron live that long (I don’t remember if any other Maiar participate in any second age events). Does that mean that it will either be focused on a relatively brief period of that history, or that the human characters will change up every few episodes as the story jumps along to another plot strand?
I can see focusing on the last 150 years, that’s when a lot of the exciting stuff happens, but they’d have to be careful not to make it too much spectacle and not enough character.
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### Author:  [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2021, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-lotr-synopsis-leaked/931215/8 "2021-01-23T06:51:29Z")
I’m not familiar with deep LOTR lore, but I would be shocked if the story jumps around by decades between episodes such that the human characters are replaced.
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### Author:  [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2021, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-lotr-synopsis-leaked/931215/9 "2021-01-23T16:36:23Z")
Well, the Númenóreans lived [200-400 years](http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/N%C3%BAmen%C3%B3reans#Characteristics), so you’d get a little consistency across medium long time spans.
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2021, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-lotr-synopsis-leaked/931215/10 "2021-01-23T17:28:36Z")
“Set in the Second Age” in no way implies that the story covers the entire Second Age. I’m guessing that they’ll just take one sequence of events, and tell a story about that, with a stable cast of characters. And once they’ve told that story, if it’s enough of a success that they want to continue, then they’ll spin off to a different story, with just enough elves in common to keep it connected.
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### Author:  [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2021, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-lotr-synopsis-leaked/931215/11 "2021-01-23T22:33:55Z")
Here is a timeline of events -
> **[Second Age](https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Second_Age)**
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> The Second Age was the time-period of Arda that began after the climactic banishment of Morgoth into the Void by the Lords of the West (the Valar) and ended with the defeat of Sauron and his army by the Last Alliance of Elves and Men, a century after...
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### Author:  [@Capn\_Carl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capn_Carl)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2021, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-lotr-synopsis-leaked/931215/12 "2021-03-23T14:07:39Z")
One more Maia, of unknown participation: Durin’s Bane.
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### Author:  [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2021, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-lotr-synopsis-leaked/931215/13 "2021-03-26T04:11:14Z")
I think we should let [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hobbit-film-director-is-chosen/435366/9) write it.