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The Rings of Power - Season 1 Wrap-up

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The Fall of Numenory Book

The fall of Numenory book is coming out too. That's part of the, you know, the Tolkien estate and Amazon both want those sales to be big. My hindsight 2020 opinion is that they were just rushed through or they rushed through Numenory way too quickly to show the impending fall. As a result, most of the characters were scheming, inscrutable, unlikable, or even annoying. They were played as no more than just another kingdom of men, no different than Gondor or Rohan from the trilogy but they are so much more than that. We never got to that in the show,. Not to mention their long lives that were introduced.

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