Háma (Helm's son)

Háma was a Man of Rohan and the second son of Helm Hammerhand, who was the ninth King of Rohan.
== Biography ==
Háma was born around TA 2719, a year after the death of his great-grandfather King Déor, the seventh King of Rohan, during the reign of his grandfather King Gram, the eighth King of Rohan. He was the second son of the King's eldest son Crown Prince Helm and his unnamed wife: and had one unnamed sister and an older brother named Haleth who was born in TA 2716 during the waning years of the reign of their great-grandfather King Déor. Prince Háma would spend the first 22 years of his life growing up in the court of his grandfather King Gram, who ruled over a time of increasing conflict with the Dunlendings (tall and ferocious men who lived in Dunland next to the Kingdom of Rohan) that had begun under the previous reign of Háma's great-grandfather King Déor. It is likely that Háma's father, Crown Prince Helm, would have participated in most of these hostilities. In fact, it is even possible that Prince Háma himself, having reached manhood in the waning years of his grandfather's reign, would also participate in the wars against the Dunlendings as the King got older and more infirmed. King Gram would died in TA 2741 at the advanced age of 73 after 23 years as king, and Haleth's 50 year old father, Crown Prince Helm, would succeed him as the Ninth King of Rohan. Háma would by now be second in line to the throne, as second son of the new king.
In TA 2758, 17 years into the reign of Prince Háma's father King Helm Hammerhand, the War between Rohan and Dunland broke out as a result of the death of the Dunlending leader Wulf 's father Freca a few years earlier in TA 2754. During the war, Prince Háma (by now nearing 40 years old) was with his father and loyal band of followers who retreated to the fortress of the Hornburg to continue the war with the Dunlending invaders. Besieged for many months during the cruel Long Winter, Háma and a company of men ventured out to attack the enemy and look for food without permission of the king and were lost in the snow.
With the death of Prince Háma as well as that of his father King Helm Hammerhand and his elder brother Crown Prince Haleth by the end of the war in spring TA 2759, there was no one of the original patrilineal line of Eorl to become King of Rohan. Therefore, the crown instead was passed to a second cognatic line starting with Fréaláf Hildeson, a son of King Helm's sister Princess Hild and therefore a maternal grandson of King Gram and a first cousin of Princes Háma and Haleth.The Lord of the Rings, Appendix A: Annals of the Kings and Rulers, II: The House of Eorl 
 
== References ==
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