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The Likeness of the Ruling Stewards: A History of Private Portraiture in the Late Third Age

This concept is rather convoluted but the basic premise is that Ruling Stewards had to cultivate a culture of projected modesty and an insistence on never elevating themselves to the role of ‘King’ by rejecting such self adulation as, for example, official portraiture. Hence, most if not all of the images Gondor has of Stewards passed comes from the intimate studies or sketches of them from their family and friends. In the Fourth Age a scholar of Pelargir named Amlugniben requested the House of Hurin’s permission to copy, research and compile the best of these images into a book and they were (eventually) granted that allowance. And so I… am making an effort to… make that… myself… SO HERE’S PART ONE