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Based on your clear description of feudalism, which I find to be accurate, and your accurate description of how things worked most of the time in medieval Europe, it begins to seem as if a better analogy to Gondor would be Byzantium instead of the Holy Roman Empire or some other. That is, the King of Gondor seemed to be pretty largely acknowledged as such, and the lords of Dol Amroth and other parts of Gondor, seem to have acknowledged the King's rulership without the various burdens of feudalism.
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