Any parent is going to react strongly like this to a child dying, even if they are not their only child. Especially if that child is an elf who isn't supposed to ever dye.
I think that the poster with the horse sword might refer to the ancestors of the Rohan.
Sure, but the Éothéod (progenitors of the Rohirrim) didn't really become their own distinct culture until nearly 2000 years after the story TRoP plans to depict.
I agree with this analysis. In real history, even Victorians such as Charles Darwin could be traumatised by the death of a single child even if they had other children and child mortality back then was a persistent fact of life.
To me, it looks like vestiges of guards are there, although they are tiny, more like nubs. Perhaps they were deemed unnecessary by elves, who go for the first-strike kill against their enemies and don't waste time in parrying.
Perhaps with CGI modification but not much of the action might take place there. If one compares Tolkien's maps of Middle-Earth from before and after the destruction of Númenor and the reshaping of Arda in SA 3319, one sees that Middle-earth was larger and included Beleriand. The topography of the parts that survived were probably somewhat different and, of course, the island of Númenor itself still existed. I assume there will be lots of new filming locations to cover Beleriand and Númenor. Osgiliath, not Minas Arnor (later renamed as Minas Tirith), was the capital of Gondor from SA 3320 until TA 1640. Minas Arnor was renamed Minas Tirith in TA 2002 after Minas Ithil was captured by the Ringwraiths and became Minas Morgul. I'm not sure of the timespan of the new series but I assume it will follow events mostly in the Second Age*.
