Fans have had fun imagining what a young Aragorn movie would look like ever since Peter Jackson’s trilogy ended. J.R.R. Tolkien’s appendices provided ample fodder for the imagination, but for years, that was as far as things got. Then, on May 16, 2018, fan site TheOneRing made the splashy announcement on X, formerly known as Twitter, that Amazon Studios would launch a series that began with a young Aragorn, saying they confirmed the news with “multiple sources.”
The concept of an Aragorn prequel is ideal for an on-screen project, and fans immediately started speculating about storylines, pushing the idea into the spotlight. For a while, it seemed like the show was going to involve the character and be set sometime between “The Hobbit” (when Aragorn is 10 years old) and “The Lord of the Rings” (when he’s 87).
Then, on March 7, 2019, Amazon Studios put the kibosh on the rampant scuttlebutt by posting a map of Middle-earth on X with the additional line, “Welcome to the Second Age.” This confirmed the show would focus on a period several thousand years before Aragorn’s birth.
