The story behind Helms Deep - hundreds of years before the fateful war - telling the life and blood-soaked times of its founder, the King of Rohan.
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00:00It is not easy to hold on to hope when an ill wind blows.
00:09Winter bit hard that year, yet still the siege held fast.
00:14Who's out there?
00:15Show yourself!
00:17Stop!
00:19No!
00:21Who's out there?
00:26Show yourself!
00:46What happened here?
00:50Speak!
00:51He killed them all. I saw. He tore them apart with his bare hands.
00:57Who did?
00:59Helm Hammerhand. He's no living man. It's not natural, the thing I saw. He's coming for us all!
01:07Save us.
01:29Father?
01:37Father!
01:42Night after night, a ghostly horn echoed in the deep.
01:48The harbinger of death.
01:50Fear took hold of Wolf's men.
01:53Whispers spread that Helm Hammerhand was human no more.
01:58He bore no weapon, and no weapon could smite him.
02:02A terror born of madness and grief. A wraith.
02:17Wolf returned to a camp stalked by death, his carefully laid plans in disarray.
02:25He was king of nothing.
02:31But Wolf, son of Freca, would be damned before he was defeated by a ghost.
02:43Is it true what they say?
02:45What?
02:46Has the king become a monster?
02:50A terrible unholy sight. Eyes that burn like coals as he feasts on the flesh.
02:58Helm Hammerhand is no wraith.
03:01Then how did he disappear from a locked and guarded room? Answer me that.
03:08I don't know, but I do know he can't walk through walls.
03:12Perhaps he can.
03:14The only ghoul hurting these halls is you.
03:20Hera?
03:21Olwen, can you hear me?
03:25Hera? Where's she gone?
03:30Olwen!
03:55Father?
04:01Father?
04:11Wait!
04:16Father!
04:25Father!
04:32Wait!
04:33No!
04:54Oi! You ought to check him before you eat me up, you fat slug!
05:01Ox?
05:02Ox.
05:06I told you before. Orders from on high.
05:13What does Mordor want with rings, anyway?
05:18The less I know, the better.
05:26Smell that.
05:28They can smell you from Mount Doom.
05:32No, no. I smell fresh meat.
05:51Here, shank. We've got ourselves a rival.
05:55Not much meat on her. May as well feed her to the beast.
06:05Run!
06:12Open the gates!
06:14What is that?
06:15Open the gates!
06:16It's the king!
06:17The king!
06:24The gates are stuck!
06:29Go!
06:32What are you doing?
06:34Rohan still needs you.
06:36No, Hera. They need you.
06:40You must lead them now.
06:47Fire!
06:52I'm afraid, Olwen, I cannot save them.
06:59Perhaps not. But there is something you can do.
07:03You can choose.
07:08You can choose how this ends.
07:14Fire!
07:15No!
07:20We cannot show weakness. Not to her.
07:23Advance!
07:26Is there no one left to face me?
07:31Come! Have a hand! Still! Come!
07:37You may wear a crown upon your head, but that does not make you a king.
07:43Then whom are you pledging?
07:49Death!
08:00When the songs of this day are sung, when the names of its heroes are read, we will stand!
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