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!
00:16Do you hear that?
00:32No! No! No! No! No! No!
00:47What happened here? Speak!
00:51He killed them all. I saw. He tore them apart with his bare hands.
00:58Who did?
00:59Helm Hammerhand is no living man. It's not natural, the thing I saw.
01:06He's coming for us all!
01:17Save us.
01:30Father?
01:38Father!
01:43Night after night, a ghostly horn echoed in the deep.
01:49A harbinger of death. Fear took hold of Wolf's men.
01:54Whispers spread that Helm Hammerhand was human no more.
01:58He bore no weapon, and no weapon could smite him.
02:03A terror born of madness and grief. A wraith.
02:18Wolf returned to a camp stalked by death. His carefully laid plans in disarray.
02:26He was king of nothing.
02:31But Wolf, son of Freca, would be damned afore he was defeated by a ghost.
02:43Is it true what they say?
02:45What?
02:46Has the king become a monster?
02:48What do you mean?
03:19Hera?
03:20Olwen, can you hear me?
03:24Hera?
03:26Where's she gone?
03:29Olwen!
03:48Father?
04:02Father?
04:13Wait!
04:15Father!
04:31Wait!
04:44Wait!
04:54Oi, you lot! Check him before you eat me up, you fat slug!
05:02Ox!
05:06I told you before, orders from on high.
05:14What does Mordor want with rings, anyway?
05:18Oi, the less I know, the better.
05:26Smell that?
05:29They can smell you from Mount Doom?
05:32No, no. I smell fresh meat.
05:44Ah!
05:51Here, shake.
05:52No, no!
05:53We've got ourselves a rival.
05:55Not much meat on her. May as well feed her to the beast.
05:59No!
06:05No!
06:07No!
06:13Open the gates!
06:15What is that?
06:16Open the gates!
06:17It's the king!
06:21Push!
06:25The gates are stuck!
06:30Go!
06:33What are you doing?
06:35Rohan still needs you.
06:37No, Hera. They need you.
06:41You must lead them now.
06:53I'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!
07:16No!
07:21We cannot show weakness. Not to her.
07:24Advance!
07:27Is there no one left to face me?
07:32Helm! Have a hand!
07:34Still!
07:38You may wear a crown upon your head, but that does not make you a king.
07:43Whom are you pledged?
07:50Death!
07:52No!
08:00When the songs of this day are sung, when the names of its heroes are read, we will stand!