Amazon’s hotly anticipated “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy” shall be a brand-new exploration of the world of Center-earth. J.R.R. Tolkien’s writings discover 1000’s of years of this fictional world’s historical past, giving the inventive workforce an enormous quantity of fabric to select from. So how precisely will the brand new collection match into the Lord of the Rings timeline? It is a prequel — by a few millennia, no much less.
When Does “The Rings of Energy” Take Place?
In March 2019, Amazon revealed that “The Rings of Energy” can be set within the Second Age of Center-earth through a pair of tweets that depicted a Second Age-era map and a easy “Welcome to the Second Age.” Tolkien aficionados will acknowledge this setting as an period 1000’s of years earlier than the occasions of the unique Lord of the Rings trilogy throughout a time of nice turmoil in Center-earth.
Because it’s set so lengthy earlier than the trilogy, you will not be seeing most of the acquainted characters you already know and love. No Frodo, no Samwise, no Aragorn, no Éowyn, and so forth. That does not imply will probably be fully bereft of acquainted names and faces, although! One of many essential characters within the collection shall be Galadriel, the royal elf seen as an ethereal and historic being within the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy. Right here, she’s 1000’s of years youthful and making an attempt to boost the alarm about impending risks that nobody else appears to see. Elrond, one other main elf character within the unique trilogy, additionally performs a serious position within the new collection.
Probably the most important a part of this period is the act that defines the later adventures of Center-earth: the forging of the Rings of Energy.
“Rings for the elves, rings for dwarves, rings for males, after which the one ring Sauron used to deceive all of them. It is the story of the creation of all these powers, the place they got here from, and what they did to every of these races,” showrunner Patrick McKay instructed Vanity Fair in February. The present additionally plans to cowl different “historic” occasions in Center-earth, together with the rise of the evil Sauron and the autumn of the island kingdom of Númenor.
Is “The Rings of Energy” Primarily based on a E book?
The reply to the query of whether or not “The Rings of Energy” is predicated on a guide is a bit more sophisticated. Technically, sure, “The Rings of Energy” is predicated on materials that Tolkien wrote — however not in standalone novels. As a substitute, a lot of the materials is pulled from the prolonged and dense appendices on the finish of his Lord of the Rings novels. These appendices comprise detailed “histories” of the Second Age, and people would be the inspiration for the Amazon collection.
What’s much less clear is how parts from different Tolkien texts shall be included and the way a lot of the present shall be invented from scratch. Tolkien did write “historic” prequels, together with “The Silmarillion” and “Unfinished Tales,” which span a number of 1000’s of years of Center-earth historical past. Some parts already confirmed to be a part of the present, such because the historical past of Númenor, are described in these books, not simply within the appendices of the Lord of the Rings. The showrunners have additionally confirmed that the present’s timeline will compress the occasions of the Second Age as laid out by Tolkein, becoming all of it into concerning the size of 1 human lifetime.
“The Rings of Energy”‘s first two episodes premiere Thursday evening, Sept. 1. New episodes are launched Fridays.
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