Lalwende wrote:
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Aragorn does have something which seems to be a 'divine right', but how can we call it that if there is no religion? I think he has something which is more of a 'blood right' to be King.
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There is no religion, but there are
divinities. Aragorn's right to the kingship is ultimately derived from the right of kingship given to Elros by the Valar. And it is noteworthy that this right is renewed by the presence of Gandalf - an emissary of the Valar - at Aragorn's coronation; indeed it is Gandalf who literally crowns him.
So, while I agree that one can hardly have a theocracy without an established
(organized) religion, I would say that Aragorn's right is properly called a divine right.