Amazon’s Lord of the Rings tweets a Middle-earth uncharted map and Elvin kings’ rings teased

Lord of the Rings Amazon Prime series Twitter page teases an uncharted prequel map. Three Elvin kings’ rings seemingly tease Second Age lore.

The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring prologue gives the audience a small history of 10 rings forged for the lords in Middle-earth. I couldn’t but to stop and think that this introductory piece can give connection to the Amazon Prime Lord of the Rings series set to debut on the streaming service.

Amazon to literally tell the tale of the actual lords of the rings?

A tweet provided by the official Lord of the Rings on Prime Twitter page provided a reference to the three Elvin lords or kings, according to Deadline Hollywood. If you can recall from the Fellowship of the Ring prologue, one of them was the familiar face of Gladirel, co-ruler of Lothlórien. Frodo’s first encounter with her was via a telepathic connection, reminding him he brings evil into their land. Nothing like stating the obvious, right? After all, Frodo was just passing through in order for the ring to reach its point of origin at Mount Doom.

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I can only guess the Lord of the Rings tweet gave us a tidbit of info for us to dissect and perhaps it will delve further into literally who these lords were and perhaps what led up to them acquiring these adornments that meant so much to the governing leaders.

Middle-earth’s older map expands beyond itself

There was another part of the tweet that linked the public to an uncharted area of the Middle-earth map. Since The Lord of the Rings series is said to be a prequel, I couldn’t help but theorize this was the map prior to what we know now of the two trilogies. I had gathered this is a piece of information which connects as far back to the First Age in an era of shaping the entire fictional world via Tolkien’s A Shaping of Middle-Earth publication.

It appears the Amazon series is taking into account other Tolkien reference materials and bringing it to relevancy. I’m guessing their main focus though may be in the Second Age. I can’t help but to think that for every fiction set of works that exists, there’s a map that includes a full, spherical globe of land masses and oceans. It seems Tolkien had an expansive mind that goes beyond his main stories and a geography that dates back to the his world’s creation. He even made note of cosmic entities that can be likened to that of Biblical accounts.

Although Middle-earth is massive, have you ever wondered what went beyond its realm? When authors write stories, they sometimes only focus on an area of the map that doesn’t go beyond itself and geography of their fictional world is limiting as anything beyond is irrelevant.  Now, it would seem that Amazon Prime may be making this relevant on the small screen. The new map seems to show this.

What is that mountain range north east of Middle-earth?

The Amazon tweeted map shows an area on the north east side beyond the Sea of Rhun. There resides a mountain chain that was never seen in The Fellowship of the Ring chapter of the trilogy. The Shaping of Middle-Earth publication, which was published in 1986, talks about a location north east of Middle-earth. Is it safe to assume that this area of the map is not inclusive to Tolkien’s well-known land mass?

That being said, The Shaping of Middle-Earth book refers to the “Ambarkanta” maps, which quite possibly could be this area as referred to in the Amazon tweet. There is a set of maps shown in this book and the number IV map displays a drawing rich in content.  In response to the Amazon tweet,  a Twitter fan pointed out a speculated race of dwarves at a location referred to as the Orocarni or Red Mountains. The description seems to align with where it’s located in Tolkien’s world.

The reason it’s only speculated is because online references reveal an uncertainty of the location of four dwarven clans theorized to be living at this very area of the world.

If you take a look at the map and did a side-by-side comparison, would you find anything different about it? Are there any landmarks or roads that are present that aren’t familiar to the known Middle-earth map?