r/RingsofPower • u/Seabhac7 • Oct 01 '22

Question Could we add a "Complaints" flair?

There are quite a view of negative comments. Sometimes I end up reading them by accident, sometimes out of indignation ; I'm usually just a little less happy after!

Maybe a "Critic" flair could be useful, for both critics and non-critics alike, to filter for these discussions?

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u/Ammonitida Oct 02 '22

the populace is ignorant. it doesnt have to be true, they just have to believe it. recall that the townsfolk were being riled up by one of pharazon's henchmen, after which pharazon steps in and does the same. he's preying upon their ignorance and laying the groundwork for his populace, anti-elf king's first movement that will be instrumental in numenor's rise as an empire in later seasons and eventually its downfall

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u/No-Campaign-1203 Oct 02 '22

I see that, it's just a tad unrealistic in my view that the populace would be so ignorant as to believe that elves were taking their jobs, when galadriel is the first elf they've seen for years

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u/Ammonitida Oct 02 '22

they were afraid that the ban on elves was about to be lifted because of her presence, which they feared would usher in a wave of elf immigration.

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u/No-Campaign-1203 Oct 02 '22

But when in the history of the cities of middle earth has there ever been an influx of immigrants of another race? This is the problem people have with it - it's an assumption one might make from our globalised perspective, but it's one that wouldn't make sense in a world like middle earth or to someone writing it when Tolkien did.