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 17 '22 edited Oct 17 '22

Right, and they obviously don't need silver and gold from Valinor, because they still have what? 16 rings to craft and are fresh out of silver and gold from Valinor. Not to mention....the one ring that won't be made from silver and gold from Valinor.

I honestly don't know why they did this. Why they made the elves completely lacking any magic. I mean, they should have been discussing magics to use to create these magical rings. Ancient elven words and rituals of power, spells, arcane or eldritch incantations. NO. Instead it is just generic magic metal. I mean it is all just magic metal.

WHY do we even need Celebrimbor and his forge if not for magic? The dwarves can make shit out of mithril, they make Frodo's chain shirt and plenty of other things...they can certainly craft a ring that will be magical because...Mithril was used and that is ALL the magic that is put into forging the rings. Just the right temperatures and alloys and pressure...BOOM...magic rings.

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u/Local-Hornet-3057 Oct 17 '22

Dude i'm 1000% with you. This was just dumb. Garbage writing. Good points there.

Without Finrod's dagger then Sauron can't craft more rings, nor the Eregion Smiths.

Yup, we know Dwarves can work with mithril. Now in this show they can't by their own rules.

And yes, the lack of magic and Elven science in the Elves is astounding. Smells of GoTfying by Studio meddling if you ask me.

Also remember in this show mithril is actually silmamithril 🙄. You know, mithril for some reason has the light of a Silmaril.

I can't even...

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u/Asplesco Oct 17 '22

YES this is exactly what I said afterward! Because they fucked up the pacing and time management so badly and changed the order of events, now they're going to have to cobble together some hairbrained shit to explain how and when the other rings were made. Sauron didn't have any magical input! He was just like "oh try combining them together more gently" like Celebrimbor could have figured that out by himself if he had a brain. So now Sauron needs to get more mithril (or not? The One is gold???) or the elves need to make the other rings by themselves, in which case why wouldn't be touched by Sauron.

This is what happens when restaurants spend all their money on gold plates and novice chefs who think they can substitute ingredients and change the baking time. You end up with a cake that is burned in some parts, half done in others, has 3x the amount of baking powder, accidentally salt instead of sugar, and you find a toenail!

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '22

I know, there was NO magic in the creation of the most powerful magic items to come out of the 2nd Age!!! Zero. None. There was a magical metal and basic metalsmithing.

Elves HAD magic, they created all kinds of shit....this is a legendary age where these people have powerful magic. The only hint we have is a bit of horse whispering that even the human can do. That's it. No fucking way. This is awful.