Everyone's life can be a magnificent fantasy legend.
Hello guys, yesterday I left a "book buckle" and said that there is another realistic prototype of Aragon in The Lord of the Rings. After posting, many friends said that your "and listen to the next decomposition" left is too appetizing, can you not wait for next week, tomorrow hurry to solve.
Well, then today's series will add a more issue of "FanWai", talk about this prototype.
Because it is not a serious part, I have not carefully carved it, so let's say that it is a good idea.
Maybe the two tips yesterday were too obvious, I see many friends have guessed it, this prototype is the recent death of queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, the Duke of Edinburgh, the greek and Danish prince, Prince Philip Mountbatten.
In the middle of April this year, Prince Philip's funeral had just been held, and I don't know if it was providence in the darkness, and "The Lord of the Rings" inadvertently made a god prophecy: the prince did die in front of the queen.
Some friends may feel very strange and say: Xiaoxi, you are also too able to pull, Aragorn is so handsome, how can it be taken from the bald old man of Prince Philip?
Well, in fact, Prince Philip was quite handsome when he was young.
Listening to my slow interpretation, you will find that almost half of the modern and contemporary history of Europe is involved, as well as the ambition and glory of an empire that has just disappeared.
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Let's look at the plot of the novel first.
When watching the "Lord of the Rings" movie for the first time, many people may be particularly puzzled by Aragorn's life - what is the origin of this "Ranger", why does his identity come up, everyone must pay tribute to three points? The name of the last part is even simply called "The Return of the King"?
In fact, this is related to the bizarre life buried in this person.
In Tolkien's grand Middle-earth worldview, there was once a powerful human empire called Numanore, which you can imagine as a hybrid of historical Rome and the legendary Atlantis.
Later, the empire collapsed, and a descendant of the Normanores fled to Middle-earth, establishing the empires of Arno in the north and Gondor in the south.
As I analyzed in the article "The Lord of the Rings Code: What is more magnificent than the "Holy War of the Rings" is its historical archetype", if Numanore is compared to ancient Rome, then these countries have the shadow of a series of "copycat Romes" such as the Medieval Eastern Roman Empire and the Holy Roman Empire.
The distant ancestor of Aragon was the first king of Gondor, Essi duo.
However, in Aragon's generation, this noble bloodline could not help him much, the throne of Gondor had been lost for many years, and as soon as he was born, his father was killed by half-orcs, and his mother took him to the elven king Elrond for help.
Eldron not only adopted Aragon as an adopted son, but also made him acquainted with his daughter Arwin. The two then embark on a fairytale love story of a prince and a princess. And in the main chapter of "The Lord of the Rings", he went through ups and downs and finally became a family.
At the end of the novel, Aragon marries Arwen and becomes king of the reunited kingdoms of Arno and Gondor by virtue of his military exploits and noble blood (the latter is obviously more important), unifying almost the entire middle-earth world and establishing the Immortals.
Well, let's extract the elements now, Aragon's life has the following characteristics:
1. Noble birth, with the last blood of the ancient empire,
2. In infancy, he experienced ups and downs, escaped in the shadow of the sword and light, was adopted by the king of another country who was brought by his relatives, and then "unceremoniously" looked at the daughter of the family.
3. Accept the trial, after a big war, you can finally become a family member with a lover, and after the big wedding, you will take the crown and complete the return of the king.
Then, if you look at the life of Prince Philip, you will find that this person's life experience and the plot of these novels are all right.
Of course, it can only be a "simplified version" of the plot of the novel.
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Speaking of noble origins, many people know that Prince Philip is a Danish and Greek prince, and he is related to half of Europe. But in fact, this man's blood is even higher than this — he is actually the last descendant of the royal family of the Eastern Roman Empire.
Here's the thing, in the article "What is more magnificent than the Holy War of the Rings is its historical prototype", we once talked about the rise and fall of the Ottoman Empire after the Battle of Vienna. For the next two hundred years, the empire continued to decline slowly. Finally, in 1821, Greece broke out into an uprising against the rule of the Ottoman Turkish Empire and eventually gained independence with the support of Britain and other countries.
Some time ago, the Greek government and the British Museum quarreled over the ownership of parthenon sculptures. Many domestic netizens followed suit and expressed sympathy for Greece - I think we were also robbed by their British! We're the same.
But in fact, we really don't necessarily have the same "love" between Greece and Britain: these two countries have almost become the "United Kingdom".
It turned out that after the independence of Greece, it felt that its own strength was very weak, and it was aggressive to face the turks who were bigger than horses in the face of skinny camels, and there were debts left by the war of independence inside.
In the face of the crisis, the Greeks took a brain teaser: If we give the crown to the royal families of other european powers, will we not be able to successfully hold the thick legs of others? So they first sought out Otto I of the Bavarian royal family in Germany, overthrew it, and then plotted to find a larger royal family. This gaze naturally fell on the world hegemony of The United Kingdom at that time.
Yes, Greece once intended to invite a close branch of the British royal family to serve as monarchs in its own country, and the British side was once very interested in this. Because the British knew that Greece's ambition was definitely not to be a small country in the Balkans, but to think of itself as the resurrection of the Eastern Roman Empire, and always thought of restoring Constantinople. If Britain had joined forces with Greece to help it regain the Fortress, Britain would have been able to hold the key to the Black Sea in its own hands, which would have been very beneficial for Britain to give eye drops to Tsarist Russia, the main hegemonic challenger at the time.
But such a wishful thinking, how can other countries let Britain fight? Therefore, britain, France, Russia and Prussia held urgent consultations in London on the greek throne, and the final result of the consultation was that the four countries signed the "London Agreement", stipulating that no one in the four countries could allow their close royal families to encroach on the Greek throne.
This "London Agreement", in which the European powers checked and balanced each other, completely cut off the idea of the powers to use the "lower body to open up the frontier" and annex Greece.
But Greece is unlucky, and the king can only choose in small countries from now on.
In 1862, after the brief overthrow of Otto I from Bavaria, Greece entered a tangled "period of vacant thrones".
Picking and choosing, they eventually fell in love with Prince Philip's grandfather, Prince Christian Georg of Denmark, later King George I of Greece.
There is some truth to this choice, first of all, George I is indeed of noble blood, through his mother's ancestors Bohemia and Hungary Anna (wife of Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I), he is a descendant of the Komunin dynasty of the Eastern Roman Empire; through his father's ancestor, Amedio VI, Count of Savoy, he is also a descendant of the Vallelian dynasty of the Eastern Roman Empire. Later, he also married the daughter of the Tsar, and it is well known that the Romanov dynasty of Tsarist Russia also inherited the bloodline of the Valleolius dynasty through Princess Sofia.
In other words, the two most glorious dynastic bloodlines of the Eastern Roman Empire were merged into one in this man.
And the Greek Kingdom claimed to be the successor of the Eastern Roman Empire, and it was obviously too much to find such a "heavenly nobleman" to be his own king.
The Greeks have always had a legend that the last emperor of the Eastern Romans, Constantine XI, was only sealed by God, and when he waited for the king's castle to be restored, he would carry his sword "like lightning return" - this should also be the earliest source of inspiration for the so-called "return of the king".
So the need for Greece to find a man of Eastern Roman royal blood to be king was very urgent. They have superstitions about it.
Another important advantage of George I is that George I's father, King Christian of Denmark, is too well-connected, and it is known that in the 19th century, Queen Victoria of England was known as the "old grandmother of Europe" because of her children and grandchildren throughout Europe, in fact, there was an "old father-in-law of Europe" in the same era, that is, this Christian IX - the two sisters of George I, under the operation of his father-in-law, later became the queen of Britain and Russia. And Greece wants to confront Turkey and retake the monarchy, nothing more than to look at the face of the overlord Britain first, and then listen to the approval of the "ground snake" Tsarist Russia, and find such a king, which is also a wise eye.
So the invitation was sent quickly, and the young George I, facing the crown that fell from the sky, did not ask: "You say that I am a Danish prince, how can I go to Greece to be king?" Please be wise. Instead of reciting Governor Lin's poem "Let the country be born to profit, and avoid it because of blessings and misfortunes," he went straight to his post.
But it turned out that he should have thought about it and read the poem to be ready.
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We say that the Greeks had traveled thousands of miles to Denmark to ask George I to ascend the throne as King of Greece, hoping that this remnant of the Eastern Roman royal family would one day help them restore Constantinople.
However, during the Greco-Turkish War in 1919, the Greeks, who originally wanted to take advantage of Turkey's loss of the First World War, to "take advantage of his illness and kill him", were actually defeated and defeated by Mustafa Kemal, the future father of Turkey, when they were about to touch the edge of the fortress.
At this time, the Turkish side suddenly "descended from the sky" Mustafa Kemal, and we had the opportunity to talk.
The fiasco of the Greek-Turkish War directly confused the Greeks. After the war, in the face of the Greek king who bent his knees to the Turks for peace, the Greek people came up with a violent temper, feeling that "the Luo Emperor could not return to his homeland, it was better to go home and sell sweet potatoes", and directly overthrew the royal family from Denmark.
Prince Philip's father, Prince Andreas' family, was taken in by the Greek Revolutionary Military Junta as scapegoats for defeat and imprisoned in An athenian prison awaiting gunfire. At that time, Prince Philip was only a year old, and he almost said goodbye to this world of flowers and flowers.
At the crucial moment, the British still looked at the Greek royal family as the face of his king's brother-in-law. A warship was sent, and the Philip family was taken out by thousands of miles.
So just as Aragon, a Dendan, actually grew up in the Elven Kingdom, Prince Philip actually grew up under the patronage of the British royal family, especially his maternal uncle, the Duke of Mountbatten.
Then, as in the novel Aragon and Arwin's first acquaintance, in 1939, at the time of the Duke of Mountbatten, Prince Philip, at the age of 18, met the future Queen Elizabeth at the Royal Naval School in Dartmouth, where he attended.
The Queen's year... Well, it can't be said that Philip is the crown of the hungry family.
The future Queen's Highness was only thirteen years old at the time. But Philip is said to have fallen in love with her at first sight, and the Queen was also very fond of this handsome distant cousin. The two men had feelings for each other at that time.
An eighteen, a thirteen, in fact, this is a more standard early love.
But there was a problem with the union of the prince and the princess, that is, the princess's father, King George VI, did not agree with the marriage.
King George VI, the one who stuttered in The King's Speech.
The reason why George was not optimistic about the marriage was not that he did not look down on Philip, but that he felt that the cousin's family was really "too German".
The blame is on Philip's father, Prince Andrea Fias, who managed to save his life with the help of the British. But somehow, he later became a super fan, except for Philip,Phillip, who married all four of his sisters to a German prince or duke. Almost all of Philip's "mother's family" was in Germany. No, when he held his funeral two days ago, there were several German nephews and grandnephews who came to mourn.
In 1965, when Prince Philip accompanied the Queen on a visit to West Germany, he also went to his sisters' homes to visit relatives.
Nowadays, there are several German relatives who have them. But at that juncture in 1939, Germany was about to go to war with Britain, and the king's daughter, the future queen, actually fell in love with such a "German" at first sight.
Not to mention that the ancestors of the Windsor Dynasty also had a tide. His family came from Germany to the Hanoverian royal family, and in order to avoid suspicion during the First World War, he changed his English name to Windsor. Germany this pit, I have just pulled out my legs, but do I have to fall into it again for the sake of marriage?
So the king was initially not in favor of the two men.
In the novel, Aragon becomes a Ranger because elven king Eldron is reluctant to marry his daughter to him at once, and demands that he "accept the trial".
To tell the truth, in Tolkien's story, the elven king Eldron's decision is actually quite neurotic - one is your daughter, the other is your adopted son, what a good marriage! Why do you have to let people "test"? Isn't this a deliberate attempt to create difficulties without difficulties?
King Eldron has a bit of a "forced light bulb" feel in the novel.
But in reality, the archetypal story is particularly easy to understand: the marriage of the British royal family is really not a daughter's private affair that can be decided, there is a great uncle Edward who loves the country and does not love beauty, and the storm is in front, Elizabeth's marriage must be cautious!
Therefore, the British royal family did not dare to decide this marriage.
And the only way the king could think of it was to get Philip to join the army at once, to accept the test of war, and to prove that he was on the British side.
As a result, Philip, as a naval officer in the British Army, participated in the Second World War.
At the Battle of Cape Matapán in 1941, he is said to have performed the "Miracle" when Philippe, a probationary officer in charge of searchlights, was the first to spot italian ships in the night. Philip became famous in the war and was awarded the Greek War Cross. Memoirs were also published after the war...
Of course, this credit is actually a bit ridiculous, you said that you are a probationary officer in charge of the searchlight, saying that the sky is broken, how much credit can be done. The British army's propaganda was obviously intended to save Philip's qualifications.
But since then, in the Second World War, Philip has indeed been on the front line of the British army, where the war is fought, his uncle the Duke of Mountbatten entrusts the relationship to transfer him to wherever he is.
In 1942, Philippe was appointed lieutenant and deputy captain of the battleship Wallace, cruised the Mediterranean, and took part in the Allied landings in Sicily in 1943.
In 1944, when the war in the Atlantic was over, Philip was sent to the Pacific to confront the Japanese Navy with real knives and guns.
Realistically speaking, compared with the Aragorn who has experienced many hardships and made great achievements in the novel, Philippe's merits in World War II are somewhat "meritorious for the sake of merit". But this is at least a gesture, the old British tradition is still not lost, think you are a nobleman, if you fight a war, you will have to go to war. And Philip and Elizabeth also understood that it must be proved through this war that Philip was not a Greek or Dane with a "German flavor", but a British combat hero, and the marriage between the two could be dramatized.
Of course, after the conquest, Philip did not write to his cousin Elizabeth, and the two became more and more in love in correspondence.
Many people should remember that in The Lord of the Rings, Elderon once urged his daughter Arwin to say that Middle-earth was about to fall in Sauron's attack, so you don't have to wait for Aragorn, let's move to Amen by boat together.
In The Lord of the Rings, the lover Arwin runs away from Middle-earth with the elves, which has always been a nightmare that worries Argon.
This paragraph also seems to have a prototype in reality. At one point, the Germans planned to carry out the Sea Lion Plan to land in Britain and launched a british bombing campaign.
Britain did consider moving the king, or at least some members of the royal family, to Canada on the other side of the Atlantic. Elizabeth also consulted Philip's cousin on the matter in correspondence.
But in the end, King George V, in consideration of the impact on the morale of the people, did not agree to the proposal, but instead involved his daughters in the air service against germany.
The Queen's best-looking photo of her outfit is from World War II, the first portrait of her lover that she sent to Philip.
However, the sense of despair that Middle-earth is about to fall in Tolkien described in the novel, the pain of lovers separating in the Great War. Obviously, it has a deep imprint of World War II.
In 1945, World War II ended, and Philip proved himself successfully through service in the war. The two can finally be united.
In July 1947, Prince Philip and Princess Elizabeth were married at Westminster Abbey. The grandeur of the scene became a sensational wedding of the century.
Of course, due to the influence of scruples, Philip's three German sisters and brothers-in-law and Elizabeth's great uncle Edward and his wife were not invited to participate.
Churchill, who has already left the prime minister, was invited to the wedding and delivered a congratulatory speech, while blessing the newlyweds, he said: "It will be a brilliant treasure embedded in our tortuous and difficult road, and it will encourage our country to be rejuvenated." ”
I believe Tolkien must have taken inspiration from this wedding of the century, and a few years later, he also placed a wedding of a couple who had gone through the trials of the war and finally became a family at the end of the novel.
In 1952, Henry V died, Elizabeth officially ascended the throne as queen, and Philip naturally became the prince, the prince. Finally on the peak of life.
In a sense, from homeless and wandering princes under the fence, to falling in love with their lovers at first sight, to accepting the "trials" of war to prove themselves, to having lovers finally become dependents and crowned princes. Prince Philip's life can also be regarded as the completion of a certain sense of "return of the king".
Of course, the era of nobility has long passed, and whether there is aragonic ambition or not, Prince Philip cannot accomplish the great cause of the emperor like aragon in the novel, and the era has not allowed it.
But at least for the first half of his life, he and his lover, in order to be able to come together, endured the trials they deserved, and got the results they deserved.
Yes, maybe the times, maybe the limited ability, we can't be the heroes we want to be.
But we can at least do what we can.
Pursue the results we can pursue,
Love who we can love.
Let time pass through the long years and slowly pass between us...
Straight to the end of life...
That's enough, it's enough to be turned into a fairy tale, written into a legend.
Of course, the marriage also had an unexpected effect - it made the blood of the British royal family incorporate the genes of the "last Romans". A hundred years after the current queen, Britain will open the "Mountbatten-Windsor era", and the blood of the future king will flow in the veins of the Roman Komunin dynasty and the Valleolian dynasty.
At that time, if the British still want to brag, they can also shout "Roman orthodoxy in Britain".
In the midst of grief we keep moving forward, but we don't despair.
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We will never be bound by this world,
Because the most precious thing that can transcend this world is memory.
- Tolkien