March 21, 2016

What can men do against such reckless hate?

Théoden: "So much death. What can men do against such reckless hate?"
[The Uruk-hai keep trying to break the door.]
Aragorn: "Ride out with me."
[Théoden turns to face Aragorn.]
Aragorn: "Ride out and meet them."
Théoden: "For death and glory?"
Aragorn: "For Rohan. For your people."
Gimli: "The sun is rising."
[Aragorn looks up to the window as the sun rises.]
Gandalf (voiceover): "Look to my coming at first light on the fifth day. At dawn, look to the East."
Théoden: "Yes. Yes! The horn of Helm Hammerhand shall sound in the deep, one last time."
Gimli: "Yes!"
[Gimli climbs up to blow the horn.]
Théoden: "Let this be the hour when we draw swords together."
Théoden: "Fell deeds awake. Now for wrath. Now for ruin. And the red dawn!"

Posted by gerardvanderleun at March 21, 2016 2:05 PM
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Yes, strangely resonant wasn't it?

Posted by: pbird at March 21, 2016 4:10 PM

Prescience. Possibly a scene from the coming democrat/communist riots planned for this summer.

Posted by: Terry at March 22, 2016 8:12 AM

"...Let us go out from this burning place into the open and stand up to our enemies. Who dies – he will be with God. Who dies not – his name will be honoured. I will go first, and what I do, you do. And God is my witness – I will never leave you, my brothers and knights!..."

- Last words of Nikola Šubić Zrinski - before riding out of the Siege of Szigetvár to face the Ottomans. Before riding out, he lit a slow fuse on 3,000 lbs of powder in the magazine and blew thousands of Ottomans to hell after they took the castle.

Posted by: Drake at March 22, 2016 10:17 AM

We have to win here before we can start there.

I want Starships and clean streets, not welfare queens and 'the Hood'.

Posted by: John the River at March 22, 2016 10:52 AM

Yes - prescient. A foretelling of the coming clash of civilizations, between good and evil, between the West and the East filled with troglodytes. Question is whether we still have the stomach for it. How many more NYCs, Madrids, Londons, Parises, Istanbuls, Kenayn Army Base, Brussels, etc before we do something about this cancer?

Have a look here for a truly sobering list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Islamist_terrorist_attacks

Posted by: Sirius the Great at March 22, 2016 2:05 PM

John the River, I find it interesting, in that I to have been dreaming of Starships. I guess, I'm dreaming the bigger dream of a other worlds and a new frontier.

Posted by: Christopher at March 22, 2016 7:49 PM