How Many Timelines Are In LOTR: The Rings of Power Trailer 2
Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power doesn't quite have one timeline to rule them all — here are all the conflicting eras we spotted in Amazon's second teaser trailer. Amazon's The Lord of the Rings TV series was initially billed as a Second Age endeavor, set at least 3000 years before The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. As images, story details and footage have gradually dripped forth from Amazon Studios, however, a more complex picture has emerged. The Rings of Power may anchor itself around J.R.R. Tolkien's Second Age, but the narrative scope is actually far, far wider.
Ahead of an eagerly-awaited SDCC 2022 panel, Amazon has released a second Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power trailer. Although many of the scenes contained within are at least somewhat open to interpretation, describing The Rings of Power as a «Second Age story» now feels a bit like tagging Doctor Who as a «present-day England story.» Yes, viewers will spend most of their time there, but plenty of other stops shall be made along the way.
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Nothing demonstrates The Rings of Power's expansive timeline better than Amazon's second teaser trailer, and although a lack of context makes pinning down precisely when each scene takes place in relation to Lord of the Rings history impossible, we can already identify a broad spectrum of diverse Tolkien eras.
One of the very earliest eras in Lord of the Rings lore, the Years of the Trees ended almost 600 prior to the Second Age, but The Rings of Power is confirmed to feature major moments from this formative period nonetheless. Our biggest clue is the appearance of Telperion and Laurelin in The Rings of Power's second teaser trailer — the
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