The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers CR - 09. The Plains Of Rohan

Celli and bassoon glide about minor modes while heavy rattles clack in the
percussion section. The Riders of Rohan are upon the Fellowship. Low brass
and high woodwinds ascend in pairs of pitches, similar to the trumpet line
heard when the Riders ambushed the Orcs' camp, and the horsemen encircle
the Three Hunters. Gimli, feeling no need to temper his Dwarvish charm,
immediately proceeds to insult Éomer. Though it's a somewhat less than auspicious
start, herein lies the first interactions between the Fellowship and the
Rohirrim, and so Shore introduces, in embryonic form, The Fellowship in Rohan,
the figure that will represent the Fellowship's presence in the Horselords'
lands.
Éomer reveals to the Fellowship that the Riders have only the night before slaughtered a party of Uruk-hai and burnt the corpses
upon the plains. They saw no Halflings among them; no creature was left alive. The words rest heavily upon Aragorn, Gimli and
Legolas. A dejected setting of the Fellowship theme plays out in a solo horn above a string pedal, and the score takes an unshakably
dark, elegiac turn.

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[AragornOfGondor1]

Eomer: What businsess does, an elf, a dwarf and a man have in the Riddermark? Speak quickly!

Gimli: Give me your name, horsemaster. And I shall give ya mine.

Eomer: I would cut off your head, dwarf. If it stood but a bit higher from the ground.

Legolas: *points his arrow at Eomer* You would die before your stroke fell!

[Tubbies322]

I loved that part! Legolas was so swift and didn't even hesitate when he spoke and drew his arrow. :)

[Snowstorm45]

@RoxasCOrigin That's what I did understand, what I don't know is what the insult was exactly. I think calling him Horse Master is an insult, because Saruman called Théoden the same thing in ROTK, and that also seemed insulting there.

[RoxasCOrigin]

@Snowstorm45 Gimli is a stranger on this land, so when he said to Eomer to say his name first, it is some kind of insult, because the dwarf must say his name first. Do you understand ?

[Snowstorm45]

So how exactly was what Gimli said an insult? I got the intention, just not what it was :/

[Snowstorm45]

Does the theme at 0:22 play anywhere else?

[Tmartin1438]

an elf, a dwarf, and a man walk into a bar...filled with angry horse people armed to the teeth

[EternalHysteria]

@AragornOfGondor1 Lol, even surrounded by so many horsemen, the Three Hunters are still undaunted. I love that bit