Does anyone else hate the Rohanites? Or am I just a horrible person?

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Originally Posted by Lush

So TTT is playing on the Saudi-owned channel tonight, MBC (they cut out all of the kissing - how pathetic. Not very tolerant of me, I know, but KISSING? MBC is a horrible channel, and the minute I'm able to get Showtime Arabia at my new place, I will shout up at the heavens in rejoicing)... And I am reflecting on the fact that I hate the way that most Rohanites are portrayed. Always have.

Eowyn and Theoden and Eomer are great, but the ordinary folk? I think Peter Jackson really overdid the "miserable" angle. And I hate the two little kids who ride on the horse by themselves. Everyone thinks they're cute, even my boyfriend thinks they're cute - but I think they're annoying. And it's like this false drama is introduced with them, and it's hugely overblown, and I just want them to stop whining.

Am I just mean and awful?

Well, it's been years now since I saw TTT and nothing could induce me ( ) to rewatch it. But I'm curious, Lush (not yellow, just curious)--did they also omit Aragorn's snogging with his horse? I mean, I know how Arabs love their horses and all and would imagine any decent horse lover would have been thoroughly appalled by that scene.

But there's something else that interests me about your post. As some of our most doughty Downers mention, the people of Rohan are usually referred to as Rohirrim, which I believe was Tolkien's word for the local folk. So, what prompts you to call them Rohanites? Makes me think of Jacobites, stalactites (thinking of caves), why, even Sodomites!

Were you that miffed with PJ over his depiction that you just had to differentiate his horsey crowd from Tolkien's?

Originally Posted by Morthoron

But the Rohirrim are pathetic!

Thank goodness the Elves came to Helm's Deep, or who knows how much more miserable it could have gotten! If only the Anglo-Saxons had Elves at Hastings, there wouldn't be all those orkish Normans mucking about in Ivanhoe or Robin Hood.

Yes, just think what those long bows did for Agincourt.