Royal Family

A royal family is the extended family of a king or queen regnant. The term imperial family describes the extended family of an emperor or empress. The head of the family (the king, queen, emperor, or empress)

would usaually reside in a palace or castle in the capital of the country they ruled. The ruling house of an empire would control more than one country like the house of Telcontar which controled arnor, gondor, and many other regions and colonies. There are many kingdoms and empires in middle earth gondor, doriath, arnor, dale, rohan, rhun, erebor and numenor name a few. After the war of the ring many kingdoms like dale and rohan grew rohan reclaimed the citys and villages that had been owned by the eotheod. The dwarves of Aglarond help turn edoras into a city which challenged minas tirith in size and strength.

Royal families could have many branches like the ruling family of durin's folk the lords of the iron hills, kings under the mountain, lords of the grey mountains, masters of the halls of durin's folk in the blue mountains, the lords of aglarond, and the lords of moria were all different branches of the royal family of the longbeards. but the main branch were the lords of moria who were the kings of all durin's folk.

royal families also were extremelly wealthy with many crown jewels (artifacts of the reigning royal family of their respective country They may include crowns, sceptres, orbs, swords,rings, and other objects) they used this wealth to pay for the building of statues and monuements and for the funding of plays, building projects, paintings, explorer's voyages, etc.