#what happens to a liegeman re: his liegedom if the liegelords are all dead and gone?
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I really like to think there is some debate among scholars on whether Tol Fuin is part of the Reunited Kingdom on a technicality, since its Kings are straight-line descendants of the last Lords of Dorthonion.
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The opinion of His Highness King Elessar on the subject: It would, you know, make about as much sense for me to say we're still the Lords of Andunie.
The opinion of Her Highness the King's youngest daughter: That would actually be immeasurably cool and dad is a spoilsport.
The opinion of any given random inhabitant of Middle-Earth: I mean Gondor-and-Arnor is welcome to it; no one lives there for a reason, but if they want a barren wasteland with a feel altogether too similar to Mordor on sentimental grounds, who am I to stop them?
#no but actually I want a view on that debate because while absolutely pointless this raises a few interesting issues#what happens to a liegeman re: his liegedom if the liegelords are all dead and gone?#but then as it turns out the new royal family might also be the closest relatives those liegelords have on middle-earth#aragorn is king but from a very feudal point of view shouldn't Arwen's status compared to him be higher? both of them qre descended from#liegemen and liegelords but Arwen is related to more lords and closer#is Gondor even feudal enough to be interested?#my post#tolkien#Silmarillion#lotr#gondor#arnor#the fourth age#aragorn#Dorthonion#Tol Fuin#peoples of arda#aragorn and arwen's daughters#ok#Eireniel
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