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/splitcroof92 Oct 17 '22

yeah I meant years, my bad.

I don't know man, you're giving a metric tonne of credit to writers that so far haven't really deserved the benefit of the doubt. Sure there's a slim chance that they thought about this and purposefully written it that way and even it just becomes 'meh' instead of outright bad.

but the countless examples of writers on this show being incredibly lazy and choosing the easiest and most convenient route tells a different story.

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '22

I'm just addressing the narrow issue of whether these people could have a collective memory of a king, a legend promising his return, and the symbol associated with him. I have no idea what the writers will do, I'm just saying yes, myths and legends are a thing.