Note To Readers: The following poem is loosely based off the form of haiku and as a result the actual verses may not be within the 5-7-5 rule...

For Lothíriel who requested an Éomer poem and has encouraged me with her comments!

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Son of Éomund
Marshall of the Mark and of
Théodwyn, King’s sister

Younger sister had
He, Éowyn was her name
Four years his junior

Éomund was slain
By orcs, Théodwyn succumbed
To her broken heart

Brother and sister
Were now orphans taken in by
Their mother’s brother

Meduseld’s Golden
Hall was for many years their
Happy home until

Gálmód’s son Gríma
Arrived to poison the King’s
Mind in evil’s service

Third Marshal of the
Riddermark became
Éomer at 26

Through soft, silky words
Gríma did conspire to kill
Théodred, Prince of Rohan

To the River Isen
Théodred went to his death
In battle by orc’s black blade

Falsely imprisoned
For rightly disobeying
The King, Éomer

Did lead his éored
In defense of the Mark
Against Saruman’s

Uruk-hai, they did
Slaughter Rohan’s enemies
Unknowingly

Helped Merry and Pippin
Gain their freedom, who then fled
Into Fangorn Forrest

Wary of strangers
Éomer’s éored did
Surround the Three Hunters

A great friendship was
Nearly lost when hostile and
Hasty words were traded

However Éomer
Saw that the Three before him
Were not Rohan’s enemies

And so given to
Them were two horses Arod
And Hasufel with

The hopes of finding
Their friends, Éomer bade them
To return the horses to

Meduseld, so that
Théoden King would know that
Éomer did not

Error in his new
Judgment of the strangers in
Rohan’s horse country

So returning to
Meduseld, Éomer was
Imprisoned for his

Éored’s riding
Without the King’s leave and for
His threat to Gríma

Locked away, did he
Stay until the coming
Of the White Wizard

Who freed the mind of
Théoden King from the poison
Of Gríma’s false words

Free to ride again
He rode against Mordor’s armies
First at Helm’s Deep in

The defense of his own
People, and then he rode to
Answer Gondor’s great need

And so upon the fields
Of the Pelennor, when he
Laid dying, Théoden

King named sister-son
King of the Mark, and so out of
Very great loss did

Éomer, Éomund’s son
Become the King of Rohan,
Lord of the Mark

Although he later
Did fight in many wars at
Elessar’s side his

Surname as given
By his people is Éadig
Which means “Blessed” and he

Was indeed blessed with
A reign of 65 years
Prosperous and fruitful

And thankfully for
Éomer it was not a
Lomely reign either

As he found a deep
Love with Lothíriel of Dol
Amroth, daughter of

Prince Imrahil, the
Cousin of Faramir, his
Sister’s husband

One child had they, a
Son named Elfwine destine to
Follow his father as King

Nearing the end of
His days, Éomer King did
Summon Master Holdwine

Also entering the
Final years of his life, Merry
Did come to the Mark

Their days were spent
Remembering days of old
And some friends long gone

And thus ended, King
Éomer’s days in peace and
In the company of old friends

So Éomer Éadig slept
Son of Éomund, King of
The Mark