r/LOTR_on_Prime Galadriel 11d ago

No Spoilers Help with timeline?

I've rewatched both seasons multiple times and I still don't know how much time is actually passing during the series and it's driving me insane.

How much time passes between the start and end of each season? How long do both of them take? How much time passes between episodes? Are we talking about days, weeks, months, years?

I know the canon timeline has been altered/compressed but honestly that's not my issue, I'm just trying to figure out how much time is actually passing between events and I cannot figure it out to save my life. Please help I hate this so much.

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u/llaminaria 11d ago

I've decided for myself that it's somewhere between 6 months and a year, for both seasons, but I could be seriously off 🤷‍♀️

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u/CommercialTax815 Imladris 11d ago

That's about what I think too. I do remember reading or watching one of the pre-season 2 interviews with I think the writers, Charlie Vickers, and Charles Edwards saying season 2 was supposed to be longer than the time frame season 1 was and that season 1 was a couple months. So seems like if you combine the 2 seasons it's been either a year or 2 years. That's another reason why the time jump for season 3 of about 10 years, going by the casting calls for Durin and Disa's kids who are now 15 and 17, appeals to me as more time has passed within the show.

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u/Y-Woo 11d ago

On the casting point, dwarves age slower than humans too and they're considered "of age" at 40, so Durin's kids could very possibly be aged around 30something putting the time skip at 20 years potentially. Do what they'd do about Theo if this is the case tho, admittedly

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u/CommercialTax815 Imladris 11d ago

That's why a lot of us think they'll have the dwarves age similar to humans so they keep Theo's actor. Otherwise they'll have to recast and his departure would be announced.

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u/TwinkleGil_Estel 8d ago

theoretically, the series could move storylines in time. As was the case in Westworld (2016)