[Oddwen]

I've spent the weekend rewatching Halbrand/Sauron/Annatar from both seasons. Has it really been 2 years since the first season? Has it really been three days since the last episode? Spoilers for S2 to follow.


Season 3 has been in pre-production but not "officially" renewed by the corporate overlords. Hopefully (?) that means we'll get at least one more season.



We have lost Adar and Celebrimbor this season, sadly. Anarion is likely to show up in S3, and Sauron will start to interview & seduce Ringwraiths. It's likely the focus will shift more towards Numenor.



Season 3: The Lesser Bads will be the Dark Wizard and whoever will become the Witch King.


Isildur returns to Numenor, is captured for a while and his role in the season will be wasted again, until we're introduced to Anarion in a daring jailbreak, and then there is usless brotherly rivalry.



Ar-Pharazon makes his move(s). Miriel is wedded in public, but is secretly locked in the tower her father was locked in. Earien is either executed or imprisoned for later Ringwraithing for trying to help her escape. Ar-Pharazon is slowly driven mad(der) from the vision of Halbrand/Sauron and The Great Wave that he saw in the Palantir. He fervently preaches the superiority of Numenoreans above all other races and rapidly expands in MIddle-earth. As soon as he gets armies on the ground he'll search out Sauron in pride and folly.



Theo/the rest of the Southlanders will be forced to cut down timber for supplies eventually and the Ents will retaliate, to what end? We know Pelargir thrives and the Ents do not.



Would Sauron appear to them as Halbrand again or would he not bother? I don't really see a Nazgul coming out of that lot except perhaps Theo if he's not the King of the Dead. In that case, Theo will awkwardly lead them through the remainder of his teenage years. Is an Estrid scorned Ringwraith material?



The One is forged at some point while the Numenoreans are beating down the door to Barad-Dur, Sauron will hide the ring behind his back and then let himself be captured by Ar-Pharazon. There is awe among the elves that a mortal could do this. The elves try to inform Ar-Pharazon that it's a trick (This was his design!!!), Numenoreans no longer trust elves, yadda yadda yadda, Sauron's back in business, baby!



Nori & Poppy will be involved in the founding of the settlement known as the Suzat. It will seem to thrive until it's destroyed by the Southlander/Ent battles. They move further Eastward and found the Shire. The Fallohides are either there first or join shortly thereafter in season 4, fleeing Dragons from the North. Harfoots, Stoors and Fallohides all agree that adventures are nasty things that make you late for dinner.


Gandalf deals with the Dark Wizard. Wanders back West and befriends the elves, gets the MIthrandir moniker. Doesn't get the elven ring until after he has business in Khazad-Dum. Saruman shows up at some point. Elves except Cirdan want to give him an elven ring. Conflict.



Durin Jr is beset by dwarven politics, is seen as crazy for trying to get everyone to see the danger of the Balrog. His arc culminates in putting on his fathers' dwarven ring.



Sauron has given several rings out by this time (to who?) and he sets his eyes on Kemen and maybe another Numenorean or two that we'll be introduced to, and the season ends with Sauron already beginning to whisper in Ar-Pharazon's ear and another mock trial. Rigged this time of course, but by whom?

Season 4: Maybe Radagast, proto-Rohan? Lorien is founded. Sauron will continue to Gaslight, Gatekeep, Gorthaur his way into the councils of Numenor. Mid-season the smoke of the White Tree burning is seen in Middle-earth somehow. The Ringwraiths left in Middle-earth start to discover how effed they are. S4 ends with the drowning of Numenor, and the end of non-CGI'd Sauron. We see worm-Sauron and maybe a few half-drowned Nazgul clinging to flotsam heading towards Middle-earth.


Season 5: Gondor, Arnor and Osgiliath are finished. The Last Alliance.