A Lord of the Rings fansite, TheOneRing.net said:
“From the first press release, we know this so-called #LOTR series will NOT be a retelling of the events of the War of the Ring. #BeenThereDoneThat.
Instead it will be Appendices based and cover a lot of time and history.
This is the greatest advantage the show runners have: that so much of Tolkien’s storytelling, even just in “Appendix A,” covers a tremendous swath of time.
Starting with a young Aragorn narrative allows connections to his Numenorean bloodline (and to the founding of #Gondor).
We could, in flashbacks, learn essentials about the men of #Arnor, sister kingdom in the north to #Gondor, and how the surviving #Dunedain became a community of Rangers, seeking to protect the north from incursions of the Witch-king of Angmar.”
Stay tuned for more information about the series and its content.
