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Originally Posted by William Cloud Hickli
Well, technically true insofar as she was not herself a peer of the realm- but she was an earl's daughter, not a grocer's! She was a 'commoner' in precisely the same sense as Diana Spencer.
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Oh, exactly! And both seemed to have a sharper grasp of optics than some of the peers around them.
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Originally Posted by MatthewM
Sitting in the Steward's chair is still a big deal, even if it's not the vacant chair of the Kings. The Steward's chair is just as important, in my opinion, given its history and rule over Gondor.
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Certainly the Stewards were the de facto rulers and commanded great authority, power, influence, fear, respect--all that goes with ruling.
Yet I wonder, does LotR dismiss the distance between the two seats? Does the Steward's chair mean the same thing in LotR as the Throne?