Amazon's Lord Of The Rings: 10 Crucial Second Age Events It Must Include

Expect the season following the epic Downfall of Númenor to pick up in the aftermath with the tiny amount of the Númenóreans who did escape, chief among them Amandil's son Elendil and grandson Isildur, who Lord Of The Rings fans will remember from the backstory prologue and, well, being the ancestors of Aragorn.

Like the upcoming show's other potential initial leads, Amandil does not survive the events surrounding the Downfall of Númenor, lost during his voyage to the undying lands with his ultimate fate left open by Tolkien, allowing his family (up to this point supporting players like the Starks who aren't Ned in Game Of Thrones Season 1) to assume the protagonist role.

Amandil and his family are the Lords of Andúnië, the island's port city where the people remain faithful to the Valar and are friendly with the elves, meaning that, when the Downfall comes, they have prepared ships and cargo in anticipation of a potential calamity.

Thus, they sail away from the Downfall with nine ships, carrying a seedling from the white tree (about which Tar-Palantir prophesied) and the palantíri seeing stones (as later used by Saruman, Aragorn and Pippin in Lord Of The Rings), and land on the coast of Middle-earth to be met by the King of the Elves: Gil-Galad, a character who will come to play an important part in the wars to come.