Éomer

Also known as Éomer Éadig

Éomer is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. He appears in The Lord of the Rings as a leader of the Riders of Rohan who serve as cavalry to the army of Rohan, fighting against Mordor.

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Character.name: Éomer
Character.series: Tolkien
Character.aliases: Third Marshal of the Riddermark,the King of Rohan
Character.race: Men of Rohan
Character.lbl24: Book(s)
Character.data24: The Two Towers (1954)The Return of the King (1955)

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Gender: male
Citizenship: Rohan
Sibling: Éowyn
Languages spoken: Westron
Native language: Rohirric
Family: House of Eorl
Creator: J. R. R. Tolkien
Number of children: 1
Residence: Edoras

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name in native language: Éomer
present in work: The Lord of the Rings
enemy: Sauron
ethnic group: Rohirrim
from narrative universe: Tolkien's legendarium
official residence: Meduseld
social classification: noble
time index: 63

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The name Éomer, meaning "Horse-famous" in Old English, is from Beowulf, a work that Tolkien had studied extensively. Despite the evident Old English connection, Tolkien denied that Éomer and the Riders of Rohan directly represented the Anglo-Saxons. Scholars have noted that while in a book the imagery remains ambiguous, and can combine suggestions of Gothic as well as Anglo-Saxon origins, film such as Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy inevitably has to choose. When Éomer appears in a helmet recalling the Sutton Hoo helmet, he is plainly Anglo-Saxon.

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