![]() Image copyright Paul LesaineĪragorn’s act of looking out from the gate and confronting the Uruk-Hai is an essential preface to this kind of bravery. ‘the machine’) that I perceived in my first reading. This is one of the few major themes of Tolkien (e.g. ![]() It is the place where I really understood for the first time what I would later understand to be ‘northern courage.’ The bravery to understand that defeat is certain, but not to cower and to fight on against overwhelming odds. This battle has always had a unique place in my understanding of Tolkien’s world. Théoden’s stand at Helm’s Deep, however, foreshadows that brave stand. ![]() It seems that everyone remembers Éomer’s act of courage at the Battle of the Pelennor Fields as the high point of Rohirric culture. ![]()
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