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I get the feeling Denethor would not have surrendered it. He felt only someone of the Line of Anarion should hold the scepter, not Isildur.
"I am a Steward of the House of Anįrion. I will not step down to be the dotard chamberlain of an upstart. Even were his claim proved to me, still he comes but of the line of Isildur. I will not bow to such a one, last of a ragged house long bereft of lordship and dignity." [RotK, ch. 7, p. 142]
He really echoed a view that seems to have withered among other nobles of his time as his son and kinsmen of Dol Amroth were for Aragorn.
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"For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously!" - G.S.; F. Nietzsche
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