Return of the King, The: Theoden (Bernard Hill)

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/26/2006 08:35PM by Mr Mouseburger.

The death of Theodin not only allows a charicter that had previously been a dissapointing king (Sauraman's spell) to redeem himself in a final act of heroism, but it sets up another act of heroism in the eventual defeat of the dreaded king of the Nazgul.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/26/2006 08:35PM by Mr Mouseburger.

Gustav Graves: Mr. Kill!

Lawrence Makoare: Yes sir!

Graves: show Mr. Theoden how you got your name!

Lawrence Makoare: Yes sir!

Graves: and then do me a favor and add "animal" to this write-up since the horse is the thing that crushed him!

Old Mr. MouseBluffer: We'll see about that, peon.

Mr. Brigg's henchperson: Ooh! I hope, I hope!



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/26/2006 08:35PM by Mr Mouseburger.

An amusingly made point, but being crushed by your horse does not qualify as "animal" .

If a film were set in a bizarre parallel universe where horses were beasts with suicidal, lemming like tendencies, who ambushed unwary travellers by dropping on them from a great height, then "animal" would apply.

old bluffer Wrote:
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> If this film were set in a bizarre parallel universe

Which it is BTW.

Also out of curiosity, how does this qualify as a Blaze of Glory? Theoden's final battle was pretty cool and he was a fairly good military strategist but there wasn't anything particularly glorious about how he goes out, unlike, say, Boromir.

If the fell beast threw him around like a rag doll and then he got back up and threw him several yards away and then Theoden got up and, despite wounded and having broken several bones, slew every Orc around him. Then the Witch-King approached again and Theoden slew that (or alternatively killed Gothmog, the one villain in this movie who wasn't given an on-screen demise) before the Witch-King slammed his flail into his stomach before Eowyn stepped in, that would be a Blaze of Glory.

But since that never happened, I'm not so sure this really qualifies.

> Which it is BTW



I agree with you about Blaze of Glory - I don't think it qualifies either. However, Mouseburger is something of a hard-core Tolkien fan (probably because he looks like a hobbit) and probably disagrees.

OB

Summon Mouseburger for explanations!

Shouldn't he be credited as King Théoden?

Another point I forgot to mention earlier. The creature the Witch-king of Angmar is riding is a Fell Beast, but the writeup implies that it's called a Nazgûl. It's actually the Witch-king who is a Nazgûl, so the Killed with: section should be changed to 'Fell Beast and horse'.