Without any knowledge of Middle-earth, if all you had to go by was watching this episode, you could easily assume that Númenor and the Southlands are just a day or two away. By ignoring distances you make the world feel small, and what ought to feel epic in scope and scale starts to feel the exact opposite. I know this is “just a fantasy” or whatever, which is what fans will say when presented with this complaint, but even in fantasy worlds things take time. Morfydd Clark (Galadriel) Matt Grace/Prime Video
Why is Galadriel wearing this ridiculous armor? Why is she wearing it on the ship? Why does they have her nimbly arrow-dodging in bulky plate armor? Why? Answer me!
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Not only this, but both the Númenoreans and Galadriel wear their stupid, god-awful armor the entire way and then, in full battle regalia, charge the entire way from the sea to the battle at a hard gallop. The next morning, the Númenoreans have sailed across the ocean, landed in what will later become Gondor, disembarked with all their horses and gear, and crossed the plains and the mountains into what will become Mordor and made it all the way to Mount Doom which, we discover at the end of Episode 6, is right next door to the village! (I told you we shouldn’t build a village next to an active volcano, but did you listen?) The next night, the orcs attack the village. As the three ships set sail, Arondir and the villagers are setting up and executing their trap. So while Galadriel is browbeating her hosts across the sea, Bronwyn is rallying her peasants to war. Unfortunately, the structure of the show leads us to believe that everything is happening at about the same time even if that’s not the case. Either our sense of time is very off, and things in the Southlands are taking place at a very different pace than the events in Númenor, or the writers are simply ignoring the distance between places.
This is the problem with crunching the timelines not just down in terms of reducing the Second Age to one storyline, but in ignoring time and space altogether.
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