Every time Gandalf is in the room with Grime he takes every opportunity to drag him to hell.
I love him for that. I love that for Grima.
Grima deserves it all on his own merit, but remember, Theoden knew Gandalf, Gandalf was known at the Golden Hall, which means Gandalf knew Theodred, knew Eomer and knew Eowyn, probably as children.
Grima preying on, perhaps exacerbating, the decline of his old friend? Gandalf's gonna hate him for that.
So Grima working to turn Theoden against Eomer and Theodred, and getting Theodred killed? Yeah, Gandalf's gonna hate him all the more for that.
And Grima stalking Eowyn, harassing Eowyn, plotting to rape Eowyn? Gandalf's gonna really, really hate him for that.
“‘How long is it since Saruman bought you? What was the promised price? When all the men were dead, you were to pick your share of the treasure, and take the woman you desire? Too long have you watched her under your eyelids and haunted her steps.’”
Oh yeah, that's personal.
You just feel the disgust.
‘Eomer grasped his sword. “That I knew already,” he muttered. “For that reason I would have slain him before, forgetting the law of the hall. But there are other reasons.” He stepped forward, but Gandalf stayed him with his hand.
The hand on Eomer, using Eowyn's first name, it's intimate. He feels Eomer's anger, he knows Eowyn.
And contrast Gandalf's utter contempt for Grima, with his compassion for the Eorlings, and his explanation of what Eowyn had to endure to Eomer, he's just so good to this family.
And when he says Eowyn had courage and spirit at least the match of Eomer, he knows what he's talking about.
(Now I'm just imagining Gandalf coming to the Golden Hall in Eomer and Eowyn's youth, and getting to know the two fierce young Eorlings. Heck, maybe it was Gandalf who helped convince Theoden to raise Eowyn as a shieldmaiden.)
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