#the horn of helm hammerhand shall sound in the deep one last time

[sunflowerbloomss]

in all seriousness the last march of the ents & the whole ending of the two towers is like. truly in my top 5 cinema moments. it's about the love it's hope it's taking grief and not letting in drown you it's trust in other people like the last 15-30 minutes of the movie are what lord of the rings is all about return of the king is the conclusion of love and hope but the two towers is to have these even at the lowest, hardest point in the journey. this sequence is truly the best this franchise has to offer

[feline-ranger]

In light of the sad news about Bernard Hill, I feel like we should take a moment to really appreciate the acting performances in the LOTR trilogy. The fact that none of the cast got Academy Awards is well-known and I think even now the sheer visual spectacle of the trilogy can overshadow everything else, but the performances were SO crucial to what made the films great.

It’s easy to take the success of the movies for granted now, but that was never a guarantee. Aside from the practical aspects of portraying such an epic fantasy onscreen, the series is peppered with dialogue that is fine on the page but unbelievably difficult to deliver. As Harrison Ford famously remarked to George Lucas re Star Wars “You can write this stuff, but you can’t say it.”

From Gandalf’s “To the Bridge of Khazad-Dum!” to Elrond’s “It must be cast back into the fiery chasm from whence it came!” it would be so easy for the whole thing to collapse into farce. The only reason it doesn’t, is because of the talent and conviction of the actors.

Bernard Hill was tasked with one of the most objectively ridiculous lines in the entire trilogy. “The horn of Helm Hammerhand shall sound in the deep one last time!” And he delivered. BOY, did he deliver. He gave it all the gravitas and emotional weight of Shakespeare, he made it truly rousing instead of ridiculous, he took the audience with him to that moment, that place, right into Middle Earth with its people and its history, and made it REAL.

And for that, I thank and salute him. RIP, sir. Go now to the halls of your fathers. You earned it.

[palfriendpatine66]

The horn of Helm Hammerhand shall sound in the deep one last time.

[nathsketch]

Extremely sad news today with the passing of our beloved Bernard Hill.

“Arise!! Arise, Riders of Théoden!”

“The horn of Helm Hammerhand shall sound in the deep one last time.”

He will go to his fathers. And even in their mighty company he shall not now be ashamed. 🗡️🐴👑

Forth, Eorlingas!!

[southfarthing]

20 YEARS OF THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS (18 DEC 2002)

The horn of Helm Hammerhand shall sound in the deep one last time!

[starsofarda]

And I am here once again crying over The Two Towers.

When I feel low and depression strikes me I rewatch/reread the LotR trilogy and my favourite of the three books is the Two Towers.

I am 100% sure that Tolkien did not intend that, but I feel like it is a very good metaphor for depression et al.

Especially when we see Rohan, King Theoden and his people for the first time.

King Theoden is under Saruman's spell, has been for a while, Grima is poisoning his mind and cutting away all the good support system the King usually relies on, aka Eomer and the Rohirrim, the king's son dies, Eowyn is trapped between hammer and anvil and the whole thing feels hopeless.

Come on. This is King THeoden in the deepest thralls of his mental health issues Saruman's spell.

And then Gandalf arrives and - yeah, I did that in one of the "I can't articulate stuff" moments:

And King Theoden breathes again, finding once again his will to fight and live. Just like my own experiences with my mental health, but I ill not unpack that here.

And the thing is, it's not like King THeoden is suddenly happy, the struggle carries on:

"Who am I Gamling?"

"You are our King."

"And do you trust your King?"

And then again:

"Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? They have passed like rain on the mountain, like wind in the meadow. The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow."

And once again, at Helm's deep:

"So much death. What can men do against such reckless hate?"

And yet Aragorn is there to support him,saying "Ride with me" and the consequent quote really drives in thepoint for me. He is struggling, but he will not let evil overcome everything.

"The horn of Helm Hammerhand shall sound in the deep one last time. Let this be the hour when we draw swords together. Fell deeds awake. Now for wrath, now for ruin, and the red dawn. Forth Èorlingas!"

I find this such a good metaphor for mental health and its struggles, all of this gives me so much hope and courage - and here I am crying again.

This is paralleled wel with Frodo and his own struggle against the ring's power and Sam is there reminding him that the struggle is real, but we have to keep going on nevertheless.

I love this piece of media/book so much.

This constantly strikes a chord in me and reminds me, a disabled, chronically ill person that I too have my own Saruman and Grima and my own Uruk-hai to fight against. I have my own Rohan to defend.

Now, again, Tolkien probably never meant to tell Rohan and King Theoden this way, but is this not the beauty of finding something that we can relate to that can help us on our own journey?

Anyway, I love Rohan, I love the character of King Theoden, Eowyn and Eomer and I just wanted to get this out in the sun.

I am now going to cry more.

[e-liza-bug]

when i was a little kid and my dad showed me the lotr movies for the first time i was absolutely entranced by theoden’s monologue before he rode out in the battle of helms deep. like i was reciting that shit from memory. rlly had me at age 8 out in public like “the horn of helm hammerhand shall sound in the deep ONE LAST TIME…. let this be the hour when we draw swords together.. fell deeds awake… now for wrath… now for ruin… AND THE RED DAWN” so fucking hype

[nearlydark]

“I go to my fathers in whose mighty company I shall not now feel ashamed.” RIP Bernard Hill.

The horn of Helm Hammerhand shall sound in the deep one last time. Let this be the hour when we draw swords together. Fell deeds awake. Now for wrath, now for ruin, and the red dawn. RIP 💚

[lord-soth-dk]

Théoden: "So much death. What can men do against such reckless hate?"

Aragorn: "Ride out with me. Ride out and meet them."

Théoden: "For death and glory?"

Aragorn: "For Rohan. For your people."

Gimli: "The sun is rising."

Gandalf (voiceover): "Look to my coming at first light on the fifth day. At dawn, look to the East."

Théoden: "Yes. Yes! The horn of Helm Hammerhand shall sound in the deep, one last time."

Gimli: "Yes!"

Théoden: "Let this be the hour when we draw swords together. Fell deeds awake. Now for wrath. Now for ruin. And the red dawn! Forð Eorlingas!"

[overthinkinglotr]

One of my favorite parts of Lord of the Rings is how the history of the environments always echoes what’s happening in the story.

Most sequences in Lotr are like: “the heroes enter a location that is ruined/fading/dead. Then the heroes do something that makes the location’s lost history come to life again, if only for a moment.”

Like the most obvious example of this is Moria. The heroes walk into Balin’s tomb and read the story of what happened there-- the dwarves hearing drums in the deep, barricading the door, and being attacked by goblins.

Then immediately after the heroes hear drums in the deep, barricade the door, and have to survive an onslaught of goblins, just as the dwarves did.

The other really obvious example is Mount Doom: Sam tries to get Frodo to let go of the Ring, and Frodo refuses-- echoing how Elrond tried to get Isildur to let go of the Ring, and Isildur refused.

But there are more subtle versions of this too-- like I’ve already talked a lot about how much I love this part of Weathertop. Weathertop was once a magnificent old watch-tower that was used by ancient kings, and long ago the ancient kings even used to battle over who owned it. Then the Northern Kingdom fell, and the watchtower fell into ruins and was forgotten.

But then Aragorn (a king in exile) and the Nazgul (who were “great kings of men”) return to Weathertop-- and it’s like an echo of the battles that used to happen there.  This watchtower fell into ruin and lost its royal identity, the Nazgul fell into ruin and lost their identities, and Aragorn turned from kingship and chose a life of anonymity-- so it’s like!!!!!!!! The kings are as faded as weathertop itself!! It drives me wild

(also: unrelated but I love this shot where Aragorn is a dark silhouette and the Ringwraiths are bright white silhouettes, it’s just nice)

Another example is Amon Hen and the Argonath. This land used to belong to Gondor,-- but it’s broken, overgrown, in ruins, and gradually fading away.

And this is the place where Boromir dies-- the place that symbolizes his country’s death.

But it’s also the place where film!Aragorn finally decides to accept his responsibliity to Gondor--when he realizes that Gondor/mankind has worth, even if it’s  faded and in ruins and ultimately doomed.

Or there’s Helm’s Deep in the Two Towers, where the history of Helm’s Deep as a fortress that can’t be taken is repeatedly tied to the hero’s efforts to save it. The heroes find courage by reminding themselves of the fortress’s history. (“The horn of Helm Hammerhand shall sound in the deep-- one last time!”)

Or the way Frodo making the choice to take the Ring to Mordor, leaving his home behind, ties into the history of Rivendell-- to the way elves are preparing to leave their home behind. Or the way the elves’ grief at how Lothlorien is doomed to fade away ties to the heroes’ grief at the death of Gandalf. 

Idk! It’s like every scene! And sometimes the characters themselves are aware they might relive the past-- and it it fills them with hope (Helm’s Deep) or dread (Moria, Mount Doom.)  But sometimes it’s subtle, to the point where the characters themselves might not realize it’s happening. And i just think that’s neat

[askjenetiakrole]

House Hammerhand

“The Horn of Helm Hammerhand shall sound in the Deep - one last time.” - Théoden I Ednew

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[dailytolkien]

The horn of Helm Hammerhand shall sound in the deep, one last time.

[taimoorzaheer]

Lord Of The Rings Anime On The Way From Ghost In The Shell Director

Lord Of The Rings Anime On The Way From Ghost In The Shell Director

The Lord of the Rings anime is on the way and the director working on it has also worked on the iconic Ghost in the Shell franchise. What is The Lord of the Rings: The War of Rohirrim? We’re thrilled to join forces with Warner Bros. Animation to create the anime feature THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE WAR OF ROHIRRIM “The horn of Helm Hammerhand shall sound in the deep…one last time!”…

[miss-pyrrha-nikos-isms]

(The horn of Helm Hammerhand shall sound in the deep one last time! Fell deeds awake. Now for wrath, now for ruin, and a red dawn! Forth Eorlingans!! Mun is also a huge LOTR fan)

No... They weren't... Where they?As the horses appeared on screen, she had to stop herself from clapping her hands in delight. It was a bittersweet ending for the King of the Horselords, and the trio of adventurers, but what an ending it was. Her smile grew as the music swelled along with the horn. How on Remnant had she never seen these films before?

[nightbringer24]

“The Horn of Helm Hammerhand shall sound in the Deep... one last time. Let this be the hour when we draw swords together.”

“Feel deeds awake. Now for wrath, now for ruin, and the red dawn. Forth Eorlingas!”

Two of the many brilliant lines from The Lord of the Rings.

[aion-rsa]

How Lord of the Rings Helm’s Deep Anime Film Could Expand Rohan’s History

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“The horn of Helm Hammerhand shall sound in the Deep one last time!” – King Théoden

While The Lord of the Rings introduced Middle Earth’s geographical middle kingdom, Rohan, during a point of apparent decline, its history of warfare became exposition for The Two Towers’ climactic skirmish in which the Fellowship helped King Théoden hold the famed fortress, Helm’s Deep. Yet, the battle—iconic its own right amongst a film trilogy filled with iconic battles—notably bore a connection in J.R.R. Tolkien’s intricate lore to ancient king Helm Hammerhand, for whom the fortress was named. Now, said connection will become the focus of an anime movie. Yes, you read that right, folks. While we await Amazon’s exorbitant live-action TV series, a Lord of the Rings anime movie is also in the works!

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim is the title that this most intriguing of projects will brandish. The feature, a studio collaboration between New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. Animation, will see veteran anime director Kenji Kamiyama (Ghost in the Shell SAC_2045, Cyborg 009: Call of Justice) tackle the Toliken-crafted story of Helm Hammerhand himself. The King of Rohan, who lived during Middle Earth’s Third Age from the year 2,691 to 2,759, was portrayed as a mythical figure whose wartime deeds still inspired the kingdom even centuries later, the year 3,019, when the Battle of Helm’s Deep took place. The project’s official description teases a standalone “companion piece” to director Peter Jackson’s famed film trilogy that, “explores and expands the untold story behind the fortress of Helm’s Deep, delving into the life and bloodsoaked times of one of Middle earth’s most legendary figures.”

New Line Cinema

Indeed, “bloodsoaked” is an accurate description, given the history attached to Helm Hammerhand, who ascended to Rohan’s throne in the midst of a long period of warfare with the neighboring Wildmen of Dunland centered on, among other things, perpetual grievances over disputed lands. However, a legend was cemented when an attempt by a wealthy, untrustworthy landowner named Freca to strong-arm an expediently border-codifying arranged marriage between his son and Hammerhand’s daughter was met by the king with a swift punch to Freca’s face. The punch was so hard that it eventually proved fatal, thereby establishing that the king’s cool surname isn’t just a reference to the warhammer he typically carried into battle, but the pair of hands that held the weapon.

Therefore, we can expect War of the Rohirrim to explore this most crucial and trying of periods in Rohan’s history, since Hammerhand’s famous fist ended up thrusting Rohan into a costly war when Freca’s vengeance-seeking son, Wulf, gathered a legion of Dunlendings to storm the fortress that would come to be known as Helm’s Deep, also known as the Hornburg. Compounding that, the protracted battle also happened to take place during a period of cold and starvation in Middle Earth known as the Long Winter, which even affected the Shire far in the west. While the effort to hold the fortress—akin to a wintry version of the Alamo—would prove tragic for the king, its legend became a source of motivation for posterity, especially regarding the giant war-horn that Hammerhand kept atop the fortress, which, when blown, would signal to the Rohirrim to open the gates and storm the sieging enemies with a ferocity that drove fear across the land. In fact, the fear of Hammerhand’s exploits had evolved to a point in which it was believed that he killed his enemies with his bare hands and ate their flesh during the periods in which the fortress’s larder was empty.  

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Of course, the connections that War of the Rohirrim will carry to The Lord of the Rings films should already be apparent, given the above information. After all, The Two Towers saw Saruman stoke the historical enmity of the Wild Men of Dunland, coaxing them to raid and burn the villages in Rohan’s Westfold. Plus, besides the fact that a statue of Helm Hammerhand is prominently shown in the film’s still-impressive longshots of Helm’s Deep, the king’s aforementioned horn was used to its historic effect by Gimli just before King Théoden—at the verge of defeat—was coaxed back into the battle by Aragorn to break open the gate and ride through the sieging forces of Uruk-hai, leading to the eventual victory. Thus, Théoden’s famous quote about the horn of Helm Hammerhand—which likely went over the heads of most moviegoers—will be given poignant context here.

Consequently, while details about the actual plot are still unknown, we do have a general idea of the story War of the Rohirrim seeks to adapt. While it may be a lofty task, it’s one for which Carolyn Blackwood, Chief Operating Officer, Warner Bros. Pictures Group, and Richard Brener, President and Chief Creative Officer, New Line Cinema express excitement. “All of us at New Line feel a deep affinity for the extraordinary world J.R.R. Tolkien created, so the opportunity to dive back into Middle-Earth with the team at Warner Bros. Animation is a dream come true,” lauds the duo in a joint statement. “Fans know Helm’s Deep as the stage for one of the greatest battles ever put to film and, with many of the same creative visionaries involved and the brilliant Kenji Kamiyama at the helm, we couldn’t be more excited to deliver a fresh vision of its history that will invite global audiences to experience the rich, complex saga of Middle-Earth in a thrilling new way.” 

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The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim will see director Kamiyama work off a screenplay by Jeffrey Addiss and Will Matthews (The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance), and joined by producer Joseph Chou. Auspiciously enough, he’ll have the help of a key member of the film trilogy’s creative triumvirate, Oscar-winning writer Philippa Boyens, who will serve here as a consultant. While there’s no release date available as of yet, the project is being fast-tracked, with animation work set at Sola  Entertainment, and voice casting currently underway.

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