thinking about the scene where merry pledges his service to theoden and then immediately says “youre my father figure now. btw.” and theoden is like “☝🏻temporarily”
theoden watching this plucky young guy say theodens his new dad and then proceed to demonstrate a complete disregard for theoden’s opinion that he should not go to war: hey i know who you would get along with
theoden lying underneath his dead horse watching the witch king of angmar get fucking obliterated: ok yes perhaps i should have foreseen this when i introduced them. thats on me.
