the-hobbits-smial:stoneofthehapless: middleearthquotations: - Éomer after finding Éowyn on the
the-hobbits-smial: stoneofthehapless: middleearthquotations: - Éomer after finding Éowyn on the battlefield, The Return of the King, Book V, The Battle of the Pelennor Fields This gives me chills. The film’s visual portrayal of Eomer crying on the field, powerful as it is, never approached the power of these desperate words. He stood a moment as a man who is pierced in the midst of a cry by an arrow through the heart; and then his face went deathly white; and a cold fury rose in him, so that all speech failed him for a while. A fey mood took him. “Eowyn, Eowyn!” he cried at last: “Eowyn, how come you here? What madness or devilry is this? Death, death, death! Death take us all!” Then without taking counsel or waiting for the approach of the men of the City, he spurred headlong back to the front of the great host, and blew a horn, and cried aloud for the onset. Over the field rang his clear voice calling: “Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world’s ending!” -- source link