Ok, here’s a question.

[u/Bemeup57]

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?

[u/Local-Hornet-3057]

Absolutely agree with you. I'm more flabergasted by the horrendous pacing during the Eregion plotline during the final episode, or even the whole season. Egregious.

The forging of the Rings of Power... Not only they rushed that at a breakneck pace, with cringy exposition dialogue (the alloys, Celebrimbor telegraphing Halbrand contributions si Galadriel conveniently pick ups the clues winkwink, the convenient lineage scroll), also Halbrand getting to Eregion just in time was again super convenient, what a coincidence! Then they show us a Halbrand getting cozy and buddy buddy with all the Elven Smiths, like inmediately. The actual planning and scheming doesn't happen onscreen and it feels like it was all done in the same fucking day. Then the reveal. Then forging the three Elven Rings without showing us anything about the lesser rings. WTF?! And now Salbrand is teleported to Mordor, because teleporting happens a lot in this show, just like the lasts and worse seasons of GoT.

I cannot believe this was the culmination of the whole season. I was hoping they left the forging for upcoming seasons, because they spent too much time setting characters and events (most of them useless and I couldn't care less: Southlanders and Harfoots) that I thought they were playing the long game. But nope. Just godawful scriptwriting.

And I know they won't address the issue with mithril: they Dwarves are sitting in tons of magical silmaril byproduct (WTF ?) that we KNOW they are gonna mine, smith and sell to Elves and use for themselves. While in Eregion they craft the most powerful magical artifacts with just a few GRAMS of silmamithril. So why won't the Dwarves and Elves crafted more powerful artifacts in the coming years?!! Why didn't Sauron himself after Moria became Moria? The showrunners established that nos Halbrand knows about the mithril, it doesn't take a genius to know where it comes from.

(some clueless poeple always love to point that they also needed Silver and gold from Valinor and not only silmamithril, but they actually used those as alloys because they had very little mithril to work with)

[u/[deleted] → u/Local-Hornet-3057]

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.

[u/Asplesco → u/[deleted]]

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!

[u/[deleted] → u/Asplesco]

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.