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indica posted...

I didn't think orcs had been created this far back. And how far before the creation of the rings is this?

Also, I'm I supposed to know who that meteor dude was?

This is pretty much a fan fiction. Most characters are new creations. The showrunners already said they are just throwing Tolkein's entire timeline out the window and are going to take the dozens of major events that happen over 3,400 years in the Secnond Age and cram them into the same time frame w/ their own original characters/stories mixed in.

To answer your questions, Orcs were around back then in the books. Who knows when the Rings will be made in the show, but they were supposed to be made 1600 years before the birth of Isildur, and he is already alive and grown in the show. No one ever emerged from a meteor in the books.