The New Series Posters!

[Weny]

Have you all seen them for the new Amazon series? They look amazing and I was trying to guess who they might be, but was having little luck. I got Sauron and Isildur and I think I saw Cirdan the Shipwright? Anyone know who the others might be. There were 23 of them! Let's figure it out!

[Romeran]

The last page viewtopic.php?f=4&t=29&start=150 here had the poster links get posted and a small amount of discussion there.

I put my theories:

• Not sure what's with the Acorn reference, the only one I can think of is Bilbo and the oak treee
• Map, can't really make it out. Looks suspiciously like Thorin's map so maybe a dwarf?
• Not sure what's up with the crazy carved cuirass and arrow
• Next one looks very Rohan - Cirion and Eorl?
• Definitely a dwarf. Maybe one of the Seven?
• Not sure I can make heads or tails of this one. Dress seems like it has some patterns but nothing jumps out at me.
• This next one might be an elf. Looks like some Tengwar on the bottom of the scroll he's pulling out
• GOLD! Yeah I got nothing
• Looks like a scepter of some form or rod? King of Numenor? early King of Gondor?
• Definitely follows the elven style armor from PJ movies. Not sure what the dagger means. This could also be the aforementioned sister of Isildur?
• Some dude with a sickle....
• Someone should tell this guy his sword is broken.
• Hmmm Radaghast?
• Those are some huge berries
• Lady in what looks like some peasant-ish garb, not much to say
• Man (I don't see a beard) holding some ropes? Nice pinky ring
• My first instinct is elf, but could even be a maia?
• Very bright dress and book. Can't quite make out what the symbol on the book is, is that a snake? a dragon?
• Armor and sword with heavy sun-themes. Not sure what it's supposed to refer to
• Bearded man with grubby fingers holds an apple....
• That's got to be Sauron right?
• For some reason I think "elrond" when I see this last one but it's probably not.

[Weny]

Yes, def Isildur and Sauron in there.
Those acorns I am pretty sure are Mallorn seeds like the one Galadriel gave Sam in the books.
I think those with gold dust on their fingers are dwarves for sure.

[Boromir88]

I have to say the posters are teaserific (tried to think of a way to say that I think they did a great with the design and as well as being great teasers!)

From a quick look my guess on the character covered in gold clothing would be Ar-Pharazon “the Golden.”

The one with a horse head sword would likely be a connection to Rohan. Oath of Cirion and Eorl is 3rd Age, so not sure the series would cover that unless they plan on a bunch of timeline smooshing like The Hobbit movies. Might be their ancestors though, the people of Rhovanion. That would still be 3rd Age when the Kingdom of Rhovanion was established.

[Weny]

I really loved the posters too. The props and clothes look great!

Oh. Ar-Pharazon. I forgot about him.

Yeah, definitely think the horse has something to do with pre-Rohan.

[Eldy Dunami]

The one with a horse head sword would likely be a connection to Rohan. Oath of Cirion and Eorl is 3rd Age, so not sure the series would cover that unless they plan on a bunch of timeline smooshing like The Hobbit movies. Might be their ancestors though, the people of Rhovanion. That would still be 3rd Age when the Kingdom of Rhovanion was established.

We have information about the Proto-Northmen going back to the early Second Age, when they were in alliance with the Longbeard Dwarves. "Of Dwarves and Men" talks about the alliance forming in response to invasions of Rhovanion by orcs fleeing the War of Wrath and the destruction of Thangorodrim, but on the basis of linguistic evidence, I'd put the beginning of their association even earlier. The Northmen were related to the Hadorians, and the Hadorian language in the First Age—as well as its Second Age descendant, Adûnaic—is obviously influenced by Khuzdul. This influence must have been acquired before the Hadorians entered Beleriand. Probably, I would argue, before they separated from the ancestors of the Northmen.

The Proto-Northmen were already "tamers of beasts and had learned the mastery of horses, and many were skilled and fearless riders" (HoMe XII, p. 303) in the early Second Age. This iteration of their civilization lasted more than a thousand years, until it was destroyed in the War of the Elves and Sauron, after which "the Men of the old Alliance were diminished and scattered ... and lived mostly in caves or in the borders of the Forest [Mirkwood]" (p. 305). I don't believe we're told anything more about them until their flourishing in the mid Third Age, when "their settled homes [remained] in the eaves of the Forest" (UT, p. 288), but it wouldn't take much artistic license for the Amazon series to include something similar in the late Second Age.

[Boromir88]

Thank you for that information @Eldy Dunami

Something that @Romeran points out...

Definitely follows the elven style armor from PJ movies. Not sure what the dagger means. This could also be the aforementioned sister of Isildur?

To me the hilt of that dagger looks like a tree-ish design, and it's made of gold and silver. That's a ton of Two Trees of Valinor symbolism. It's a rather creative item to make and give to a character, in my opinion, to tie in the symbolism of the Two Trees. Now who the item is given to and what significance (if any) it does, I haven't the faintest clue. It would make the most sense for a Noldor elf to have it. Celebrimbor? Galadriel? It could be an heirloom from the House of Fingolfin that gets passed down to Gil-galad? Or perhaps, Glorfindel, who was a follower of the House of Fingolfin?

[Romeran]

@Boromir88 looks like you were on the nose with Galadriel according to this article: The Rings of Power Series First Look caption on the first image is "Galadriel, commander of the Northern Armies." and it looks like the same armor as the poster.

[Weny]

I WAS SO HYPE FOR THE VARIETY PICTURES. They are so pretty and we get to place some of the posters with characters. They all look amazing and I am even more hype.

[Boromir88]

@Boromir88 looks like you were on the nose with Galadriel according to this article: The Rings of Power Series First Look caption on the first image is "Galadriel, commander of the Northern Armies." and it looks like the same armor as the poster.

Oh yay, to be fair, I had like 4 guesses, and slightly favored Gil-galad, because it would be a red herring and not as spoilery as showing a spear. But (and I'll comment more about this in the Amazon series thread) Galadriel having it and seeing a portrayal of her in her youth I think will be interesting if done well. She was ambitious and would happily ignore anyone's advice to do what she wants.

'Galadriel was the greatest of the Noldor, except Fëanor maybe, though she was wiser than he, and her wisdom increased with the long years...and she grew to be tall beyond the measure even of the women of the Noldor; she was strong of body, mind, and will, a match for both the loremasters and the athletes of the Eldar in the days of their youth.' (Unfinished Tales: History of Galadriel and Celeborn)

Quite a change from her character in Fellowship of the Ring, but she plays a different role there.

I'm going to take a guess at another one and say the poster of the character holding a rope, has a ring, and looks like has a beard is Cirdan. Cirdan is the only elf recorded to have a beard, rope would be a common item for a builder of ships, and there's a ring!

[Fuin Elda]

Is it bad that I think the Sauron one (the black guantlet near the end) and the other one with the black sword broken are possibly both the same? They both very well could be Sauron - we could be seeing him as Annatar there as well as Sauron? The style of the swords are similar though not identical.

I think we're also very much seeing some hobbits in there with how large at least that one set of berries are as well as the acorns in the hands. That said if we are in the second age these are going to be protohobbits as the Shire doesn't exist until well into the 3rd age so we very well may be seeing the three founding races showing up in terms of hobbits as well