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The Lord of the Rings and Christ’s Kingship, by Matthew McKenna – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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Image from The Return of the King (2003), Catholic Exchange.

By Matthew McKenna, Catholic Exchange, November 25, 2024

Matthew McKenna is a Ph.D candidate in Theology at Ave Maria University. He studies and teaches on the works of St. Thomas Aquinas, G.K. Chesterton, and J.R.R. Tolkien. His dissertation-in-progress explains the link between the masculine genius and the priesthood. 

Avatar photoPeter Jackson’s adaptation of The Lord of the Rings is quite good.  But sometimes he skips key details which reveal the Christian vision behind Tolkien’s work.  One of these is the climatic episode of Aragorn’s coronation.  In Jackson’s film, it rightly shows Gandalf placing the crown on Aragorn’s head, but it removes Frodo’s participation in the coronation.

In the book, Aragorn approaches the city Minis Tirth, and its steward, Faramir, comes out to meet him.  Faramir explains to the assembled people that in olden days the king would crown his own successor before he died.  But since things must be different now, Aragorn may place the crown on his own head. 

Unlike Napolean, Aragorn refuses to crown himself.  ….

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