Éomer

Éomer Éadig was a Man of Rohan and the eventual eighteenth King of Rohan, and first of the Third Line of their Kings. In the last decade of the Third Age, Éomer was the Third Marshal of the Mark.
== Biography ==
Éomer, born in TA 2991, of the House of Eorl, was the son of Éomund, a descendant of Éofor, and of Théodwyn, sister of King Théoden. In TA 3002, when Éomer was eleven, Éomund was slain in battle with Orcs. Théodwyn died of grief shortly afterward. Éomund also had a daughter named Éowyn, Éomer's sister. After they were orphaned Théoden adopted them as his own children.
Éomer became the third Marshal of the Mark, and was a strong leader of Men. He was honored highly and trusted by the King, and was close with his cousin Théodred, son of Théoden who loved him like a brother.
His éored hunted down the Uruk-hai that had taken Meriadoc Brandybuck and Peregrin Took as they camped near Fangorn Forest, slaying them all. He never saw the Hobbits, as they had fled during the battle. Afterwards he met Aragorn, Gimli, and Legolas on the plains of Rohan, and he lent them two horses, Arod and Hasufel.
Éomer returned to Edoras and reported meeting the Ranger and his friends and allowing them to go free, a violation of the King's law. Under the poisonous advice of Gríma Wormtongue, he was imprisoned by Théoden, who had grown weak, aged, and suspicious under Saruman the White's influence.
After Aragorn, Gimli, and Legolas reunited with Gandalf, the four hastened to Edoras, where Gandalf broke Saruman's influence over Théoden and restored him to health and vitality. Théoden freed Éomer, who offered his sword to Théoden in token of his loyalty. Théoden named Éomer his heir prior to riding away from Edoras to the defense of the Hornburg.
At the Battle of the Hornburg, Éomer was involved in was the defence of the gate where he, Aragorn, and a small band of men left through a postern door at the side of the Hornburg and led an assault on the forces attempting to break the gates of the Hornburg. After this attack Éomer and Aragorn attempted to return through the door when Éomer was jumped upon by several Orcs who had laid low during the assault, though Éomer was saved by Gimli, who had secretly followed him out to the gate. When the Deeping Wall was breached, Éomer and Gimli were unable to reach the fortress and instead retreated up Helm's Deep to the Glittering Caves, where they held the Orcs at bay.
Afterwards he rode with Théoden, Aragorn, and Gandalf to Isengard, where they were greeted by Merry and Pippin, who were celebrating their recent victory. Treebeard and his fellow Ents, remained as well in order to guard the now imprisoned Saruman and Wormtongue.
After this, Éomer rode with Théoden to Dunharrow, where the Rohirrim were mustering. After receiving the Red Arrow, Théoden agreed to gather a force to help defend the city of Minas Tirith against the impending assault by Mordor. Théoden and Éomer rallied ten thousand men, leaving four thousand behind to guard Rohan before riding to the White City. The army of Rohan managed to arrive at the Pelennor Fields just as Minas Tirith's Great Gate was breached. In the ensuing Battle of the Pelennor Fields Éomer fought gallantly, slaying many foes. But Théoden was fatally crushed by his horse, Snowmane, after being attacked by the Witch-king's fellbeast. Coming upon their corpses, Éomer was driven to temporary madness at seeing Éowyn, his sister, among the King's retinue, apparently dead, and charged in renewed fury at the forces of Mordor. He and Aragorn later met on the battlefield and reaffirmed their loyalty to each other, before returning to the long, grim work of winning the battle.
thumb|288x288px|Éomer during the red dawn, by [https://www.artstation.com/fabioleone Fabio Leone]
In the battle's aftermath, Éomer attended to Éowyn in the Houses of Healing, and, with Aragorn and Meriadoc Brandybuck, helped call his sister back to consciousness. Aragorn said that, as broken as Eowyn's heart had been over her unrequited love for Aragorn, her love for her brother was much more real to her, and a much more potent reason for her to live.
Éomer became King of the Mark upon Théoden's death, and attended the final council of war before the Battle of the Black Gate, where Gandalf counseled that the combined forces of Gondor and Rohan must throw a diversionary force of sufficient size against Mordor, with little chance of survival, let alone success, in the slender hope of distracting Sauron long enough to allow Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee to cross Mordor in secret and deliver the One Ring to Mount Doom. Éomer confessed that he had little understanding of the "deep matters" being discussed, but he did not need it. For him it was enough that Aragorn and his allies had come to Rohan's aid at Helm's Deep, and therefore, Rohan would stand with Gondor in the last battle. Some riders under the command of Elfhelm remained in Minas Tirith as part of the garrison.
Following Sauron's fall, Éomer and his men went back to Edoras to attend to affairs of the kingdom, returning later to bear the body of Théoden back to his home for burial, where Éomer was formally crowned as King.
Éomer renewed the Oath of Eorl with Aragorn after the latter had been crowned King Elessar of the Reunited Kingdom, swearing everlasting friendship between Rohan and Gondor (and legalizing Cirion's grant of Calenardhon to the Éothéod.) 
He became known as Éomer Éadig, or "the Blessed", because during his reign Rohan recovered from the hurts of the War and became a rich and fruitful land again and even expanded to ancestral territories . Although Sauron was defeated, the West was never wholly free of enemies, and Elessar and Éomer rode together to war many times. He also reclaimed the land of Éothéod and Rhovanion this was more about because the land was viewed a holy along with more of for the king to settle more if there population where to expand.
Éomer had met Lothíriel, daughter of Prince Imrahil of Dol Amroth during his stay in Gondor, and they were wed. She bore him a son Elfwine, who succeeded his father, after Éomer's death in the year FO 63.
== Weapons ==
Éomer's sword was called Gúthwinë (Old English for "battle-friend"). He also used a spear.
== Etymology ==
Éomer means "one who is famous in terms of horses" in Old English. The idea for his name was derived from the Anglo-Saxon words eoh ('war-horse') and maer ('famous') - his epithet éadig is a word meaning 'blessed'.
== Behind the scenes ==
The name Éomer appears as the name of a King of the Angles, both in both the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, in which he is the son of Angeltheow and grandson of Offa and, in its West Saxon form Ēomǣr, in the epic poem Beowulf, in which he was the son of Offa and Modthryth and grandson of Wermund.
== In adaptations ==
=== The Lord of the Rings (1978) ===
Éomer appears in Ralph Bakshi's 1978 animated version of The Lord of the Rings. He has no spoken dialogue. Éomer first appears attacking Uglúk's Orcs. Théoden later mentions him by name in a conversation with Gandalf. Éomer then appears at the end of the film, during the battle at Helm's Deep.
=== The Return of the King ===
thumb|Possibly Éomer in Rankin/Bass's The Return of the King
In the Rankin/Bass 1980 animated film The Return of the King, an unnamed character is seen at the last debate, riding with Aragorn and Gandalf to The Black Gate, and finally riding behind Aragorn during his coronation procession. It is speculate that this character is Éomer as he wears Rohirrim armor similar to King Théoden's.
=== The Lord of the Rings trilogy ===
In The Lord of the Rings film trilogy by Peter Jackson, Éomer is exiled by Gríma Wormtongue before meeting Aragorn, and is an outcast until he arrives at Helm's Deep, summoned by Gandalf. In this sense, his character has been combined with the character of Erkenbrand, who, in the book, is the one with whom Gandalf returns to Helm's Deep. At the Battle of the Pelennor Fields in the third film, Éomer kills the Chief of the Mûmakil riders. Éomer was played by New Zealand actor Karl Urban.
=== The Lord of the Rings Online ===
In The Lord of the Rings Online, Éomer is first met in the town of Eaworth in the Entwash Vale where his riders make a brief stop shortly after meeting with the Three Hunters. Obligated to bring the player and their companions before the King, he takes them with his éored on their way to Edoras. After learning that Reeve Fastred of Snowbourn has ignored his order to bring his people into Westemnet across the Entwash, he decides to bring the matter to the King directly. However, he is instead stripped of rank and imprisoned by Gríma Wormtongue while the player and their companions are banished from Westemnet. After Théoden is released from Wormtongue's spell, Éomer rides towards the Fords of Isen at his side.
=== Lego: Lord of the Rings ===
Éomer also appears as a character in LEGO The Lord of the Rings.
== Quotes ==
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== Gallery ==
File:Eomer's reaction when he see the moving trees 02.JPG|Éomer in shock at the sight of the Mûmakil
File:EomerHelmet2.jpg|Éomer's helmet and sword as depicted for The Lord of the Rings films
File:Éomer.jpg|Éomer in The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth
File:LEGO EOMER.jpg|Lego Éomer
File:Eomer (Tactics).JPG|Éomer in The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game - The Voice of Isengard Expansion
File:Eomer - LOTR The Card Game.JPG|Éomer in The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game - The Mountain of Fire Expansion
== Voice dubbing actors ==
Foreign Language 	Voice dubbing artist
Czech (Czech Republic) 	Aleš Procházka
French (France) 	Jean-Pierre Michaël
German 	Marcus Off
Hungarian 	Ottó Viczián
Italian (Italy) 	Riccardo Rossi
Japanese 	Koichi Yamadera
Spanish (Latin America) 	Raúl Anaya
Spanish (Spain) 	Salvador Aldeguer
Portuguese (Brazil) (Television/DVD)	Tatá Guarnieri
Slovak 	Peter Sklár
Turkish 	Hakkı Ergök
==Translations==
Foreign Language 	Translated name
Arabic 	ايومير
Armenian 	Էոմեր
Assamese 	ইওমেৰ
Belarusian Cyrillic	Эамер
Bengali 	এওমের
Bulgarian Cyrillic 	Еомер
Chinese (Hong Kong)	伊歐墨
Georgian 	ეომერი
Greek 	Εομέρ
Hebrew 	איאומר
Hindi 	ईओमर
Japanese 	エオメル
Kannada 	ಎಯೊಮರ್
Kazakh 	Эомер (Cyrillic) Eomer (Latin)
Konkani 	ईओमर
Korean 	에오메르
Laotian 	ອີໂອເມີ
Macedonian Cyrillic	Еомер
Maithili 	ईओमर
Malayalam 	എയോമർ
Malaysian 	Jaguh Kuda
Marathi 	इओमर
Mongolian Cyrillic 	Эомер
Nepalese 	इओमर
Persian 	ائومر
Punjabi 	ਈਓਮਰ
Russian 	Эомер
Serbian 	Еомер (Cyrillic) Eomer (Latin)
Sinhalese 	ඊමර්
Tajik Cyrillic 	Эomer
Tamil 	எயோமர்
Tatar 	Эомер
Telugu 	ఎయోమర్
Thai 	เอโอแมร์
Ukrainian Cyrillic 	Еомер
Urdu 	ایومر
Yiddish 	עאָמער
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