New Line Cinema Amazon Studios’ upcoming Lord of the Rings series has been largely shrouded in secret. We know that it’s set in the Second Age of Middle-earth, but that’s still over three thousand years of fictional history. It doesn’t narrow things down very much. But the show’s official synopsis, obtained by The One Ring.net, seems to indicate that the show will almost inevitably build towards the Fall of Númenor, a cataclysmic wrath-of-the-gods scenario that leads to the foundation of Gondor and ultimately the big battle-prologue moviegoers will remember from the very first scenes of