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King under the mountain wow9/5/2023 History of Middle Earth XII: "The Peoples of Middle Earth" Chapter XII: Last Writings Of Glorfindel, Círdan, and other mattersĪlthough this is obviously not conclusive evidence, it does suggest that daughters were not considered eligible to succeed. This 'return' would only occur when by some chance or other the What effect would have on the succession? Probably There's at least one (rough) anecdote to support that claim, from a footnote in History of Middle Earth, when discussing the reincarnation of Durin: Considering that Dís is literally the only Dwarf female identified in Tolkien's writings (and Tolkien identified a lot of Dwarf kings, as you can see from the above image), it's a fair assumption that they follow a variation of Salic law, with no Queens allowed, but exactly which version they follow is unknown, and there are no clues to help us sort it out. Tolkien was presumably not interested in the topic of succession, so we have no Word of God answer on the subject. How this plays out is essentially the same (in this case) as with cognatic succession, except the Crown skips over Dís and lands directly on Fíli.Īs previously noted, we have no idea. Under the second variation of Salic Law, female kin are considered "naturally dead", but their sons are in the line of succession. Under this rule, neither Fíli nor Kíli would ever become King Under the Mountain. This is Daín II, who is alive, so he becomes King Under the Mountain.
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