Now for (some verses on) Rohan!

Well, i must say, it was Jet who got me started so much on Tolkien in the first place...

To whatever end… Where is the horse and the rider?
Where is the horn that was blowing?
They have passed like rain on the mountains.
Like wind in the meadow.
The days have gone down in the west.
Behind the hills, into shadow.
How did it come to this?

(In the book it has been, in verse:
"Where now the horse and the rider?
Where is the horn that was blowing?W
here is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing?
Where is the hand on the harpstring, and the red fire glowing?
Where is the spring and teh harvest an dthe tall corn growing?
They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow;
The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow.
Who shall gather the smoke of the dead wood burning,
Or behold the flowing years from the Sea returning"


For death and glory,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 a red dawn!
Forth Eorlingas!

(Now this was lifted off Eomer's battle cry in the book, he was so much more in the book:"Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's risingI came singing in the sun, sword unsheathingTo hope's end I rode and to heart's breaking: Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall!")

(Incidentally the song Forth Eorlingas? I am almost dead certain it's sung in two languages. Quenya cos I heard Olorin, and presumably Old English for Rohirric. Bah. I was told by Graves that it apparently is the same theme for Shadowfax, and the lyrics basically hailed Shadowfax as the descendent of the steed of Eorl the Young, by which time, only Tolkien fans' d know what I am talking about.)
:Forth! and fear no darkness!Arise! Arise! Riders of Théoden! Spears shall be shaken, shields shall be splintered!A sword-day! A red day, ere the sun rises!Ride for ruin . . . and the worlds ending!
(In the book, Theoden had shouted:"Arise, arise, Riders of Theoden!Fell deeds awake: fire and slaughter! spear shall be shaken, shield shall be splintered,a sword day, a red day, ere the sun rises!Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor!" )
I love the lines of Rohan. I think it is the horses. I am partial to those animals...And oh on top of those lines, here are some of my favourite from the book:
Better to burn sooner than late, for burn we must. Go back to your bonfire! and I? I will go now to my pyre. To my pyre! No tomb for Denethor and Faramir. No tomb! No long slow sleep of death embalmed. we willburn like heathen kings before ever a ship sailed hither from the West. The West has failed. Go back and burn!"

-unapologetically ripped from Jet's blog. Thanks!