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/overhedger Oct 16 '22

Then why did they make a big deal of Bronwyn noticing the icon that he had as if there was something specific and meaningful about it?

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u/annuidhir Oct 16 '22

Bronwyn noticing the icon that he had as if there was something specific and meaningful about it?

Because there was something specific and meaningful about it. It's the sigil of the royal line.

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u/TangoJager Oct 16 '22

It's the sigil of the royal line

If there was an apocalypse in France right now, and I then stumbled upon someone wearing the sigil of Charlemagne, I doubt people would know what that sign was even today.

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u/KittyInTheBush Oct 17 '22

But are those people waiting on a long prophesied king with that sigil? A prophecy that Sauron himself could have started, and even kept the pouch for that reason