Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-26429944-20180208085334/@comment-25841881-20180214003258

Madman198237 wrote: The problem is that we almost certainly can't, as there is no record of ANY monarchical (i.e., led by a King or Queen) government having the issue of the present claimant's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great uncle still being alive, especially when the actual line was severed and sent to semidistant cousins a couple times.

We do tbh.. This exact scenario. The Wisest of the Maia pronounced Aragorn as the rightful heir. Relying on real-world monarchies to tell us how it should happen in fiction is entirely stupid, when there's no evidence for one side or the other, so we should trust the fictional subdeific beings.