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April Tolkien Challenge; Day 10
Crown of Aragorn
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Also known as the crown of Gondor, or the Silver Crown, it was said to have come from a Númenorean helmet, one that the great kings in battle used to wear. When it got crushed in the Battle of Dagorlad, the helmet of Isildur became the next Crown of Gondor.
When Atanatar II The Glorious became king, he refashioned ht helmet into the crown we know to have been King Elessar’s, or Aragorn. The crown was once more lost as Eärnur lay it in the lap of King Eärnil II, his father, in the houses of the dead, and it remained there for 969 long years, awaiting the next king.
It was Gandalf who eventually handed Aragorn, or Elessar, his crown on May 1st of the year 3019 of the Third Age. It was tradition that the helmet be passed from father to son, but as Aragorn had no family left, he let Gandalf bring it to him, to crown him as king of Gondor, reclaiming his title as the last heir to the throne.
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Sources:
-One Wiki To Rule Them All, Crowning of King Elessar
-One Wiki To Rule Them All, Crown of Gondor
-Tolkien Gateway
-Return of the King, JRR Tolkien,
Instead of using a palantír to announce his reclaimed identity to Sauron, Aragorn takes to Twitter.
My brother and I were discussing the implications of social media in Middle Earth while watching the LOTR trilogy. This is what happened.
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To take part in the Finwion Butts series that has been going around, have Nelyo, contemplating whether or not to give the Elessar to Fingon while half-naked.
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Today in Middle-earth History: Elessar was crowned. Here’s a unique interpretation of the scene by Sergei Iukhimov.
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"We shot a sequence, Liv Tyler and I, in Lorien, and we’re walking around, and it’s when I’m still wearing clothes that are more like something you’d see Legolas wearing. I have no beard. I have really long hair, and it’s partly in a braid. And, I’m wearing definitely elvish kind of clothing. I look like some young elvish lord. I think I’m barefoot, walking in these flowers with her. And because of our aging thing, we look similar. I look a little younger than usual, the no beard helps and all that.“
Viggo Mortensen on a deleted scene Arargorn/Arwen scene.
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