I think Bernard Hill was a brilliant Theoden, and no other actor could have done the same. He somehow understood that degree of bittersweet acceptance of his death, and you could tell when you saw that scene.
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.
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