By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 13, 2021 9:30 am EST
TheOneRing.Net, who have been breaking Middle-earth stories for years and years now, has obtained the official synopsis for the upcoming show and it teases that we’ll meet characters “both familiar and new,” in locations explored and unexplored in the vast Second Age of Middle-earth.
But what could those familiar and new characters be? What could this story actually entail? Try to glean for yourself:
The tease of “the greatest villain that ever flowed from Tolkien’s pen threatened to cover all the world in darkness” likely refers to Sauron during his first rise to power, after the forging of the rings and the One Ring to rule them all (it’s already been teased that Young Sauron will be a central figure). Judging by the prominence of Numenor and the timeline of the rise of Sauron, it seems likely that the series will tackle the war of the elves and Sauron, the great war fought in the mid-Second Age in Middle-earth, ending with Sauron’s defeat and his expulsion from Eriador.
The pilot has completed filming and is currently in post-production.
