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Apr 9, 2022 7:18 PM
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aface62
Then they picked sides and millions died over their feud.
PineappleLoopsBroether
abraxasfury
Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men, doomed to die,
woozle
MidlandRedux
Damn them all to hell . . . they helped triggered a war that killed fifteen million Europeans.
xstickman
I wonder how much arguing there was over who sits/stands where.
IMustGrowUpReally
I heard some were throne a tantrum about this.
IusallypoopwhileImonhere
Imagine with that amount of power being in a room where your just a regular dude
hemanwomenhatersclub
What about the nine rings that bound them together for that photo?
LullabyJones
King Albert I of Belgium could get it.
CrisprCAS
But you really had to hand it to his older brother.
goflyblind
i count more than nine here:
HumanFromPlanetEarth
wardogleader
Oh look it's the Queens!
irvingb01
https://groovyhistory.com/freddie-mercury-queen-elizabeth-photo
JoseCanada79
I can smell the inbreeding from here
ForceKinTim
Tsar Nikolai and the king George (?) Look like twins
Tootsie1
They're first cousins, it happens.
theusernameformerlyknownastildo
Taking lessons from Karen in Mean Girls.
truthader
Yeah, but he’s my first cousin.
MateriaGirl1
I bet it was a family reunion. Grandma Victorias birthday or something like that
ricpaul
So where's Queen Elizabeth?
GhostBear3067
Taking the picture.
CplCarrot
And then cousin Willie suggested a game of Monopoly.
Cats2cats
Shall we also have a conversation regarding inbreeding?
Rips4w
9 cunts.
davemClickDriver
Would be awesome if they were killed. Self serving assholes
HereToKickAssAndChewGum
ImAMomWhatsYourSuperpower
So obviosly you need a moustache to be a real king.
thundercactus
In Prussia, the man with the biggest moustache is made king. If there's a tie, they fight to the death.
GhostBear3067
I know you are joking, but that would actually be on brand for Prussians...
DukeDarkwood
Tehnam
Watched the King's Man last night. I can see the resemblance to the actor portraying the 3 Cousins (George/Wilhelm/Nicholas)
CraftyGiant
High Res
thundercactus
I forgot about that one time Gene Hackman grew a mustache and they made him king of Denmark.
pr3viso
There's still too many Royals on the face of the planet
notwhatyouknow
Too bad they didn’t have color film for this
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LordHosk
AchDuLieber
Must have been hell getting through the metal detector.
AchDuLieber
Or "medal detector" for you punnish bastards.
spattr
Since Queen Victoria married her many children into most royal houses in Europe, they are all likely cousins too.
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derekjohn
The French, British and Russian Royal families were not particularly closely related at that time.
PigsWeGetWhatPigsDeserve
World War One was basically a family feud.
Raz0rking
WWI was a huge family dispute.
wastewanderer
One of those kings had said that if Victoria had still been alive, she never would have allowed it to happen.
taytotom83
Kaiser Wilhelm II of the german empire was actually at Victoria’s deathbed
persondude27
It's also why many of these people were carriers for hemophilia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haemophilia_in_European_royalty
ZaphodBbx
Real question: How many of them were related?
LordHosk
All of them. As well as dozens of other Princes and Dukes who ruled countries not pictured here who were cousins and in-laws.
LordHosk
Every Royal and Nobel in Europe is in line for the throne of England they are just pretty far down. Makes King ralph kinda funny.
Shaows
All of them
LurkerOfDarkness
The danish kings father had 3 descendants become kings, and 2 daughters become consorts of kings/emperors, he was known as the ½
LurkerOfDarkness
Father-in-law of Europe. Kings of DK, NO and GR, consorts in UK and RU. 2/2
DontNeedAWeatherManToKnowWhichWayTheWindBlows
This looks like the start of a Monty Python skit, beginning with the introductions: "Your majesty. Your majesty! No, YOUR majesty."
khora
MY majesty?
CommunCreator
“Hey Fred! Willy! George! Shame about Eddie.”
malkavian3str
It's literally something like my dear cousin actually by convention.
isetprettygirlsonfire
MawgSpawn
Aaaaand Dr.
wardogleader
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R06PMn8z-Gk
Shaows
The Nazgul before the rings were handled to them.
WinstonSmith101
Tolkien clearly saw this photo and remembered it before spending time in the trenches a few years later.
ThatOneGuyFromTv
But they were each of them deceived, for there was another ring made.
PineappleLoopsBroether
Oh woww you’re right
mt77932
FPTPsucks
I feel like there is a master's thesis paper in Tolkeinism in that statement alone.
PyroAvok
Holy shit.
thedarkcanuck
The LOTR movies came out when I was younger and I never put much thought into it, but it really does compare to ww1 Europe doesn't it
WP04849
He did fight in the war after all
marthisthing
Ya know, I was playing a Letter Boxer on the NYT. The said Nazgul was not a word. But they recognize Orc and Ogre. Wtf?
temujin9
Orc and ogre existed before Tolkien used them.
TheOneWhoWasLeft
Orc and ogre are English, Nazgûl (mind the diacritics) is Black Speech. No other languages allowed by NYT.
malkavian3str
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/orc#English
TheOneWhoWasLeft
I get so annoyed at the spelling bee game thing about this.
malkavian3str
Ringwraith is English
marthisthing
Fine point
TheOneWhoWasLeft
Yes.