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Without Faramir, Gondor would have been rulerless after Denethor's death. Faramir was needed to acknowledge Aragorn as king in the name of the people of his city. Without that legitimation, it would have been much more difficult for Aragorn to be accepted. After so many centuries of rule by the Stewards, the Gondorians might not readily have adjusted to the idea of a stranger (to them) taking over their city and country.
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'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth.. .'
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