[ SECRET POST #4273 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4273 ⌋

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Comments

[cbrachyrhynchos]

Viceroyalties almost always end up dropping the pretense of waiting for the right royal heir to come along for one thing. Then there's the motorcycle horses and ponies, entire armies that apparently exist without any food or drinking water, and the little anachronisms that Tolkien lampshades with a wink and a nod about unreliable narration. And finally, you really have to wrestle with Tolkien's professional position as author of Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics, restated in the letter to his editor included in The Silmarilion both of which quite explicitly reject the notion that fantasy is in any way anthropology.

[tree_and_leaf]

Viceroyalties almost always end up dropping the pretense of waiting for the right royal heir to come along for one thing.

Tolkien drops a joke about this into the appendix - Boromir asks Denethor how long it would take for a Steward to become a king and gets the reply "Few years, maybe, in other places of less royalty ... In Gondor ten thousand years would not suffice."

The House of Stuart traced their descent back to Walter Stewart the High Steward of Scotland, whose son became Robert II of Scots, and from whom descended the Kings of Britain up until the Glorious Revolution.