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** Queen Amidala wears plenty of ridiculous headdresses in The Phantom Menace. Which one is the formal crown is harder to say.
* In ''[[Robin Hood (2010 film)]]'', King Richard's helmet has a crown built into it.
* In the ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' [[Film of the Book]] (specifically [[Return of the King]]), the crown of Gondor looks like a circlet, though a fairly large one. Contrary to the book, where it looks like a helm (not exactly hoop crown but close).
** The elven lord Elrond sports a circlet of the "stock thin elven" type. The elven High King of old, Gil-Galad does, too.
* In the third ''[[The Elusive Avengers]] movie'', appropriately titled ''The Crown of the Russian Empire'', the titular Greater Imperial Crown of Russia was the [[MacGuffin]]. (Google it. It's one of the most awesome hoop crowns of [[Real Life]]).
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* ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'' book ''A Crown of Swords'' is named after the Laurel Crown of Illian. The crown is of a laurel wreath design, but between the leaves are tiny daggers alternately pointing up and down; the intention in the design is that the wearer can never wear it comfortably, reminding him of the obligation and danger it represents. After he notices this, Rand gives the Laurel Crown its other name.
* The crown of the dragons in ''[[The Enchanted Forest Chronicles]]'' is a heavy circlet made of iron. When, after her first day as King, Kazul exhaustedly hurls it against the wall, Cimorene chides that she shouldn't treat the crown that way. Kazul responds, "Of course I should. It's expected. That's why we made it out of iron and not something soft and pliable like gold."
* In ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' the first crown of Gondor was a war helm that belonged to Isildur, and the second (Aragorn was crowned with it), was a more pimped-up, crown-like helm. And in the other Numenorean kingdom, Arnor, a simple circlet with a single diamond was used. The Arnorian crown also existed in two iterations: the original and the replacement that was made after the original was lost. [[All There in the Manual|After LOTR]], the original circlet was found, giving Aragorn a total of three cool crowns.
* In the ''[[Deryni]]'' works, there's a number of these:
** The Haldanes have the State Crown of Gwynedd, bejeweled and with intertwined gold leaves and crosses, worn at coronations and state occasions. Even Kelson wears this when duty calls for it, though he prefers a "simpler circlet of gold" like the hammered gold circlet he wears when addressing the bishops at Valoret in ''The Quest for Saint Camber''.
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