In case you missed it, yesterday's The Very Soil entry went up late.
They're all relatively rare instances of heroic kings in an era when the everyman hero is far more common. Fascinating article on the typical folkloric king in the European tradition, and the ways in which these modern instances of the hero-king both do and do not conform to that tradition. Link below, and it's definitely worth clicking through to the PDF of the full article, if only to see serious, scholarly work saying in effect, "Yeah, this is a hero on a journey, and Campbell's bloody useless to understand it."
http://www.medievalists.net/2014/04/05/returning-king-medieval-king-modern-fantasy/
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