Amazon’s Lord of the Rings prequel series, The Rings of Power, has already told us that it plans to dive deep into the history of Tolkien’s vast mythos. The series is primarily set thousands of years before the books and movies in the Second Age, and has already teased it will go even farther back beyond that. But what was Middle-earth like coming into the time at the start of the show? We’re here to help.
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The State of Middle-earth Coming Into Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
We know Amazon's Lord of the Rings series is going to touch on multiple points in the vast timeline of Tolkien's work—but what exactly was the Second Age like?
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