This week on the blog, we're continuing our look at Helm's Deep, looking at the role of morale generally and of the general's battle speech in particular. Where does the idea of a 'general's speech' come from, and how does that genre work?https://acoup.blog/2020/06/12/collections-the-battle-of-helms-deep-part-vii-hanging-by-a-thread/ …
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Fun writeup! I did think one of Peter Jackson's nicest choices was moving the Ubi Sunt poem to present it as Theoden's arming speech/song.
Yes, I think that works very well. And he keeps much of the poem. Less mix-and-match as what he does to the pre-battle poems. I'd still have loved to have seen Eomer actually sing out his "Out of doubt, out of dark, to the dark's rising, I came singing in the sun..." though.
