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Originally Posted by Boromir88
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People are... disgusting. Nor is it even 'passionate about the source material'; there are no sources claiming that all seven houses of the dwarves were pale, and frankly I doubt there's even one for the Longbeards! It's just knee-jerk racism.
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Overall I'm not 100% convinced by
that twitter account's claims. They're sourcing from
this one, and things like... the absolutely covered-in-gold character is Gil-Galad, whose whole theme is silver? Are you
sure?
But that's fandom rumours for you. Probably some are true, some are not. We will all find out in - cripes - seven months.
If they
are right, then we seem to have three timeframes represented in the posters:
- The First Age. They're claiming Galadriel on the Helkaraxe, and I've seen a very plausible theory that
the broken sword could be Gurthang. Also, y'know, Two Trees image.
- The War of the Elves and Sauron. Celebrimbor, and potentially Durin.
- The Akallabeth. This is most of them. ^_^ They've namedropped Elendil, Pharazon, and a surprisingly-scruffy Isildur (and his sister Carine*).
(*Which would be Ca-ri-nė, not Ca-reen. Plausibly Quenya but without any obvious derivation.)
I've seen suggestions that the First Age material is limited to the first episode; whether that means it's just a prologue, or whether they're devoting an entire episode to Beleriand, I can't even speculate.
(I was gonna start posting theories about the posters, but a) lots of work, and b) if there's official rumours, there's not a lot of point.)
hS