Editor's Note: The following contains spoilers from The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 2 finale and also the resulting tragedy of Númenor. It's kind of wild how quickly Númenor has begun ...

The Rings of Power Episode 3 introduces the island kingdom of Númenor. Númenor has an extensive history outlined in J.R.R. Tolkien’s writings. The Amazon prequel will likely explain why Númenor isn’t ...

After three episodes of Prime Video's hit series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, the Elven warrior Galadriel (Morfydd Clark) and the mysterious Halbrand (Charlie Vickers) have finally set ...

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power's fourth episode opens with a terrifying and deeply important vision. Númenor's Queen-Regent Míriel (Cynthia Addai-Robinson) dreams that a great wave crashes ...

That’s right: The history, culture, and geography of Númenor are all covered in The Lord of the Rings’ appendices, as well as not-so-accessible tomes published after Tolkien’s death, The Silmarillion ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. So, what Second Age events can the Lord of the Rings series cover? The appendices are detailed, but not totally comprehensive, ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Queen Regent Míriel (Cynthia Addai-Robinson) has seen the future of ...

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Many hardcore Tolkien fans will be well versed in the geography of The Lord of the Rings, but Amazon Prime’s spin-off takes us to distant lands barely featured or even referenced in the mainline ...

The sea masters of Middle-earth might believe they could be the rulers of everything, but once King Pharazôn of Númenor starts down a dark path of betrayal and domination, his destiny as a puppet of ...