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| | Kingship in the Work of the Inklings |
 | | During the Middle Ages, the contradiction between the sacred nature of the Crown per se, and the sometimes objectionable activities of various individual monarchs, prompted the evolution of the doctrine of "the King's Two Bodies." The Body Political was the Crown in the abstract: guarantor of justice, divine regent, fount of honour. |
 | | Numenorean Kingship, both in the Land of the Star and in exile was much more like that of Mediaeval Europe, being, indeed, consciously modelled by its author on it. |
 | | Unlike Tolkien's Middle Earth, where both the three chiefs of the Eldar and Elros and his descendants have their kingship bestowed upon them by the Valar, who, after all are angels rather than deities, the Narnian Monarchy is directly established by Asian, who, as is well known, is simply Christ in that world. |
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