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Originally Posted by Groin Redbeard
The leadership of a clan of exiles in order to defend people who have forgotten you and treat you with distrust is more like a responsibility than an honor. Also, it was only right that he should be treated as royalty since Aragorn is royalty, but once again, he's earned that through his wisdom and prowess as a fighter.
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And you're certainly entitled to have that opinion, and make such assumptions, even though I don't necessarily agree with all of it. See how easy that is?
From a realistic point of view, believing one has any sense of entitlement for a throne his ancestors lost millenia previously is rather like saying you deserve to be Roman emperor because you are somehow related to Julius Caesar, even if you can prove direct father/son lineage back that far and have his sword (it reminds me of the serf saying to Arthur that watery tarts waving about scimitars is no basis for a system of government). One of the more irritating plot lines Tolkien developed as far as impingeing on one's suspension of disbelief.