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Untold Tales of the Mark: The Banishment of Éomer  by Katzilla 1 Review(s)
Agape4GondorReviewed Chapter: 68 on 5/16/2007
You absolutely break my heart with your words - so much pain - so endless... Good grief - I hope this eventually turns out well; it would hurt so much to know that Theoden died sundered from Eomer...

"...Béma, so much bitterness in the lad’s eyes! Where was the young man who had looked so proudly at him from the back of his horse on the day when he had joined the Armed Forces, Théoden wondered with growing despair. Where was the young man who had embraced him so heartily upon his return from his first year in service, laughing with happiness?

"It is very convenient to have a Gríma Wormtongue to blame for everything, isn’t it? You think that his evilness frees you of all responsibility. No matter what damage you inflicted with your words, it was the Worm’s fault. It is a cheap way out for you, for he is no longer here to object." For a moment, they stared at each other in silence, and it seemed to Théoden that he literally saw the shutters in his nephew’s gaze close, shutting him out… forever. "

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