Théoden Quotes

“My body is broken. I go to my fathers. And even in their mighty company I shall not now be ashamed.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“Yet also I should be sad,' said Théoden, for however the fortune of war shall go, may it not so end that much that was fair and wonderful shall pass for ever out of Middle-earth?'
'It may,' said Gandalf. 'The evil of Sauron cannot be wholly cured, nor made as if it had not been. But to such days we are doomed. Let us now go on with the journey we have begun!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of the Lord of the Rings

“You thought I remained in Meduseld bent like an old tree under winter snow. So it was when you rode to war. But a west wind has shaken the boughs,' said Théoden. 'Give this man a fresh horse! Let us ride to the help of Erkenbrand!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers : Being the Second Part of the Lord of the Rings

“Put down your smartphone, smell the roses, and—as
Gandalf instructs King Théoden when the latter emerges from Wormtongue’s hypnotic spell in Peter Jackson’s adaptation of Tolkien—‘breathe the free air again, my friend.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality