This series, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, will be set in the Second Age of Middle-earth, an important time that literally reshaped the face of the planet.
Even knowing that Amazon’s Lord of the Rings prequel series is set in the Second Age doesn’t tell us a great deal about the plot.
The Second Age is a period only briefly glimpsed in the Lord of the Rings movies.
The fantasy universe created by J.R.R. Tolkien is much bigger than just the events of The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings.