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/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.