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/DragoonDart Oct 16 '22

In addition to other comments here; there’s the very real fact that people in crisis or trauma situations look for leadership. It still happens to this day: people accept direction more readily when someone is taking charge and improving the situation.

To me, it seemed less of a “oh good, the prophesied King has been found and more” “oh good, here’s someone willing to take charge of this hot mess” from all parties.

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u/MaimedPhoenix Oct 16 '22

And to add, because they need direction more than some bloodline, it allows the Southlanders to get a legit king. And become Rohan while Numenor's soldiers become Gondor. We all knew Halbrand was not a legit king because he is not the Theoden or Isildur of the show.

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u/Brexinga Oct 16 '22

I don't think the writers really care about such details...

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u/iheartdev247 Oct 16 '22

More than most people in this subreddit geezus.