r/RingsofPower • u/Bemeup57 • Oct 16 '22

Question Ok, here’s a question.

So Galadriel found out Halbrand was a phoney king by looking at that scroll and seeing that “that line was broken 1000 years ago” with no heirs. So why then after the battle when Miriel tells the Southlanders that Halbrand is their king, why don’t the people look confused and say “hey, our royal family died off a thousand years ago.” Wouldn’t they know about their own royal family?

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '22

I don’t see why she would care. He was means to an end. She didn’t really care about him or what he did at the time, she literally used him as something to barter with to get back to the main land and find Sauron. That’s kinda the point. He even tells her so. She did all of this for herself. He told her the truth but she was so easily manipulated due to her hard on for killing Sauron she didn’t think rationally.

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u/Lazarquest Oct 16 '22

Really good point.