![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rohan had been troubled by Orcs and Dunlendings since the time of his father and now by the new fighting Uruk-hai, who operated under the will of Saruman, ruling from Isengard. In the last years before the War of the Ring, Théoden let his rule slip out of his hands, and Gríma gained an increasingly large hold over him. Gríma may even have been poisoning Théoden. He was increasingly misled by his chief adviser Gríma (or Wormtongue as most others in the Mark called him), who was secretly in the employ of Saruman the White. ![]() Grima and Théoden, under a spell, in the Golden Hall of Meduseldīy the time of the War of the Ring, Théoden had been king for nearly 40 years, and was becoming old and tired. He had a son Théodred, whose mother Elfhild died in childbirth. His sister Théodwyn lived with him in Edoras, and after she and her husband both died he adopted her children Éomer and Éowyn as his own. Théoden spoke Sindarin and Westron more often than Rohirric, due to the influence of his father, and spent a part of his youth growing up in the mountain vales of Gondor, his mother's homeland. Théoden was the only son of Thengel, and became king after the death of his father in TA 2980. ![]()
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