" The Rings of Power unites all the major stories of Middle-earth’s Second Age: the forging of the rings, the rise of the Dark Lord Sauron, the epic tale of Númenor, and the Last Alliance of Elves and Men. Tolkien’s other classics," said showrunners J.D. "This is a title that we imagine could live on the spine of a book next to J.R.R. Amazon's series is about the rest of them. So we've read and seen The Lord of the Rings, which is about the One Ring. The first teaser trailer, along with the reveal of the actual title, confirmed this. Amazon accompanying its maps with lines from the "one ring to rule them all" poem suggested that the series might concern itself with the original forging of the Rings of Power. This is a roughly 3500-year period that begins with the Valar banishing Morgoth into the Void, and ends with Isildur and the Last Alliance of Elves and Men defeating Sauron. Thanks to a series of maps that, starting in February 2019, Amazon began releasing on Twitter, we know that the series takes place during the Second Age of Middle-earth. But Amazon has teased a few details that allow some educated guesses. Specifics about the storylines are currently being guarded by a giant spider in the deepest dungeons of Barad-dûr.
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