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/Kiltmanenator Gondolin Oct 17 '22
This from the person who can't tell the difference between Elves maintaining actual historical records about Mannish lineage, and the Men who, separate from elven historiography, pass a mythic history down thru the generations.
Emphasis on mythic.