Yes, I thought so too. But servants in particular need a clear view. Why should they walk around with a net in front of their face? They spill the good wine all over the fine gentlemen. (Or maybe they are beekeepers who are about to serve the honey for dessert?)
And why do these pseudo-hobbits wear lettuce in their hair? 😂
Does the lady on the right have a beard? Maybe she is not a
hobbit, but a female
dwarf with lettuce in her hair?
And I'm pretty sure I saw the guy on the left at a Goa festival the other day....
Everyone knows that it is against the nature of
hobbits to
travel around all the time. And the most conservative were probably rather the
Harfoots.
I'm afraid this series shows a completely perverted version of the hobbits.
Obviously, this is an amalgamation of multi-ethnic pseudo-"Harfoots" who lead a nomadic life and practice primitive tribal rituals. This pretty much contradicts everything we know about them from
Tolkien. I think Tolkien emphasized that the hobbits were sedentary and only went wandering when circumstances did not permit otherwise. (Exceptions were, for example, the Bagginses and
Tooks who had some
Fallohide impact. And they were considered freaks.).
Well, it may be the case here that they were forced to wander by
Sauron's
evil influence, but the imagery suggests a lifestyle that has long been characterized by nomadism. And this is what Lenny Henry says:
"We're a nomadic tribe, moving with the weather and the fertility of the crops. We have big caravans on wooden wheels and we're very good at hiding things, because humans are much bigger than us and bring trouble."
Well, at least the last part makes a little more sense. Even though the Hobbits had very close contact with the ancestors of the
Rohirrim.
Because it is so so beautiful, here again a nomadic pseudo-hobbit picture with one giant lantern and two other lanterns in the background.
I love these lanterns already, don't you? It will be one big Laternabalooza lantern festival.
So, now for a change briefly a picture where I first of all can not grumble around:
Here I could say at most that the
armor does not look particularly
elvish, but very human and militaristic as we know them from the Middle
Ages or perhaps from the late Romans. But well, that is more a matter of taste, like the hair length of the
elves. (Or do you think elves must necessarily have long hair?)
In terms of content, however, the scene is probably nonsense.
Galadriel seems to be promoted to some kind of knight of the round table or something like that. We will see...
Edit: What is particularly noticeable here is that there are no lanterns in the picture. Which is a pity again, because I had already become very accustomed to it.
Editedit: For that, we may have here a
Mallorn tree shining brightly like a lantern, although the scene is probably set in
Lindon, where no Mellyrn can grow.
Well, maybe it's just autumn.