Théoden
Quick Facts
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| Dates: | III 2948 - 15 March III 3019 (71 years) King of Rohan from III 2980 (reigned 39 years) |
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| Race: | Men | ||||||||||||||
| Culture: | Rohirrim | ||||||||||||||
| Family: | House of Eorl | ||||||||||||||
| Pronunciation: | thearde'n1 | ||||||||||||||
| Meaning: | 'Ruler'2 | ||||||||||||||
| Titles: | Ednew, King of the Mark, King of Rohan, Lord of the Mark, Lord of the Rohirrim | ||||||||||||||
Last King of Rohan of the Second Line
The son of Thengel; the seventeenth King of Rohan and last of the Second Line. He led the Rohirrim at the Battle of the Hornburg, and was lost defending Minas Tirith in the Battle of the Pelennor. He was succeeded by his nephew, Éomer.
Footnotes
| 1 | The éo sound in Théoden's name is pronounced approximately like the English word 'ear'. |
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| 2 | Théoden's name comes from a real Anglo-Saxon word that originally meant 'leader of the people'. The element théod, 'people', occurs in many of the names of the Rohirrim, and also in their ancestral name, Éothéod, meaning 'Horse People'. |
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