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05-28-2014, 02:53 AM | #1 |
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Some thoughts on Ruling Queens among the Dúnedain.
One of the ideas behind Tar-Aldarion’s change in the law of succession so that the eldest child, male or female, took the throne is that there was nothing essentially wrong with it. Consider the following.
I’m inclined to look at Telperiën’s reign in a positive light. Vanimeldë’s reign might have been pregnant with disaster: her husband Anducal (who was also her second cousin) ruled in her name while she lived, then usurped the throne from their son Alcarin for 20 years after she died. It might be significant that Ardamin, Anducal’s son and heir, was the first king of Númenor called by his Adûnaic name, Ar-Abattârik, was 41 when Anducal died and his grandfather Alcarin was finally able to succeed to the throne; and Ardamin’s son, Ar-Adûnakhôr, was 28 when Alcarin died. Bitterness is something people tend to inherit undiminished. F*riel, like Silmariën her foremother, should have inherited the throne but did not. However, eventually her descendent Aragorn Elessar, like Silmariën’s descendent Elendil the Tall, was proclaimed King of the Númenóreans. It only took Aragorn 1,075 years and sixteen generations; it took Elendil the Tall 2,579 years and nineteen generations. By the way, the Kings of Númenor did not refer to themselves as the “House of Elros”. They called themselves the “House of Eärendil”, father of Elros (and Elrond), who when presented with an irrevocable choice by Mandos, preferred to be numbered among Men, but chose to remain with his wife Elwing, who wanted to be numbered among Elves. Elros died and left Arda. Eärendil could not, though he wanted to. If you think about it, that’s a miserable existence. It was that unhappy longevity, which they mistook for immortality, that the later Kings of Númenor and their followers coveted to their ruin. |
05-18-2018, 10:35 PM | #2 | |
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A good analysis of the women rulers as well. When it came to Arvedui wanting to become king, I always found it a bit of a power play by the stewards to bring in the lines of Isildur vs the lines of Anorien in to play.
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