King Theoden: "No father should have to bury his own son." I know a family whose young boy James Birrell was a victim of a rare cancer called neuroblastoma. James loved LOTR and his family likened him to Frodo carrying his burden through Mordor. Alliance Atlantis organized an advance screening of the Fellowship of the Ring so James could see the movie before he died, and the money raised went to the James Birrell research fund for neuroblastoma. This year we continued the advance screenings with The Two Towers, so it must have been quite a moment for the Birrell family when King Theoden said that. Very true. We're continuing the fund-raising next year with The Return of the King. <P>Other favourite line: King Theoden recites the verses when he is having his armour fitted onto him. "It shall pass like rain on the mountains...like wind in the meadows."
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Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? They have passed like rain on the mountains. Like wind in the meadow. The days have gone down in the west. Behind the hills, into shadow.
How did it come to this?
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