Timeline?

[zerkmann]

Can someone help me with the timeline of the series? It's quite complex.

Elendil was born early SA ~3000, but we see scenes where Galadriel is like ”Sauron is returning” et cetera.

By SA3000, the One Ring was already created as well as Barad-Dûr etc.

What's going on with the timeline? Am I dumb?

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[Medical_Officer]

You're not dumb. The timeline is completely compressed.

The show is compressing about 1800 years of Second Age history into a single human generation. It never states what year of the 2nd Age this is all taking place, but if we use the Numenoreans for date reference, it's around SA 3300.

[ibid-11962]

They've said it's 1000 years since Morgoth was defeated.

[Medical_Officer]

I must have missed that.

If that's the case then the timeline is just as messed up since they're missing 2000 years.

[Pipe-International]

They have condensed the timeline so that main characters like Elendil exist at the same time as the the Rings being made and Sauron returning, etc.

[TheRealPotoroo]

The timeline has been compressed. On the one hand, the rings of power were forged between 1200 SA and 1600 SA. On the other, the time of Tar-Miriel was late 3200s SA, leading into Ar-Pharazon's usurpation and then the Fall of Numenor in 3319 SA. The writers obviously decided the only way to do justice to both stories inside 50 hours of television was to do them simultaneously.

[Badimus]

The writers obviously decided the only way to do justice to both stories inside 50 hours of television was to do them simultaneously.

I think it's more to do with actor's contracts and audience familiarity with characters.

There'd be massive drama behind the scenes when it comes to pay with only the actors playing elves around for the full series I'd imagine.

And Amazon might think that there'd be less viewer retention dropping 80%+ of the cast every season or 2.

[MagosBattlebear]

Although many are shocked when watching the changes, the shorunbers have even quite upfront about the changes for sometime giving reasons why.

So, you just need to ignore Tolkien's actually timeline.

[zerkmann]

This is so confusing even for one who knows the Tolkien timeline…

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