Five seasons are a go. What's a likely timeline?

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OH LAWD DEM RANGZ

LETS HEAR IT FOR THE ELVISH NIGGAZ

LETS HEAR IT FOR THE HUMAN NIGGAZ

no way this lasts for seasons

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They have thousands of years to work with and dont even use it. I dont understand why they dont do like Arrow with time on island over 5 years contrasted with modern time when he returned to city. They could have dueling storylines and contrasting themes from past and present both pre-war and post-war. Can culminate with the war in past and present and juxtapose various themes and topics. Its so fucking weird they compressed like 3000 years of lore into a single time period. they also have ageless elves they can easily jump between time periods with or dwarves that live hundreds of years aging iover vast time periods. yet its all compressed into this one fucked up timeline.

Season one: Set up of the unlikable characters. Nothing happens.
Season two: Filler episodes to increase run time and fill out a season they didn't expect to write.
Season three: Replace most of the cast with likable actors, fire the writers, rewrite most of the storyline. Stuff starts to happen but too late to save the series.
Season four: Knowing they're locked in for five season the new writers go batshit crazy and introduce deep Tolkien lore no one ever expected to see on film.
Season five: They go out with a bang and just film every possible scene from the Silmarillion and other books that fans liked but which would never make sense in a show. Like the Silmarillion it's just a bunch of disjointed unconnected shorts. Fans love it.

surprisingly realistic

And when this doesn't happen you'll own up to being wrong right?

Season 1 ends Annatar introducing himself
Season 2 ends with the actual forging of the Rings
Season 3 ends with the fall of Numenor
Season 4 ends with humans rebuilding and starting an alliance with elves
Season 5 ends with the Last Alliance