Salic Law is similar to cognatic primogeniture, except that it excludes females kin from the line of succession. Since we assumed she was alive, Dís becomes Queen Under the MountainĪfter Dís's death, the Crown would pass first to Fíli and then to Kíli. The eldest surviving female child of Thráin II.The eldest surviving child (male and female condensed for simplicity) of Frerin.Frerin, Thorin's only brother, died 150 years prior, so: The eldest surviving male child of Thráin II.Under this rule, succession would be determined like so: Typically this rule has preferred male children over female (a variation of which is sometimes called "Male primogeniture" 2). Vastly oversimplifying, this means that succession is a depth-first search on the family tree, preferring the oldest children. I'll also assume that their mother Dís is alive, although we have no canon to confirm or deny it, because it's easier than constantly saying "If Dís is alive then., otherwise.".įirst, I refer you to the family tree of Durin the Deathless (the information here is taken from Appendix A: "Annals of the Kings and Rulers", though the image obviously is not):Ĭognatic primogeniture. I'm going to assume, as you do in your question, that Fíli and Kíli survived the Battle of the Five Armies, because otherwise it's a moot point.
Please note that (to my knowledge) Tolkien has never indicated what rule of succession the Dwarves follow. I'm going to vastly oversimplify some common rules of succession to try and explain how this issue might be resolved.
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