Quote Originally Posted by DKenny View Post
Fair enough. But then, for example, we're not going to see "the history of Numenor unfold" in the series, because they can't do that. Tolkien wrote about that history, but the show can't use it, so we're going to see original fiction with some of the names from the Appendices applied to it.
It'll be more than a couple of names, I think, but yeah a lot of stuff will directly contradict what Tolkien wrote in other publications. That stuff can't be licensed. The only stuff that can be licensed is the stuff they have.

We know that a lot of detail of the end of the Second Age is in the appendices. I more recently read the Numenor essay published with the Silmarilion. I have my copy of RotK out and am going to take a look at what they have to work with.