Théoden Rohan (Earth-4552)

Théoden Rohan was the seventeenth King of the House of Rohan, and last of the Second Line.

Early Life
Théoden was the only son of Thengel, and became king after the death of his father in T.A. 2980. Théoden spoke Sindarin and Westron rather than Rohirric, for he had been born in Gondor and spent his youth there.

Théoden loved his sister Théodwyn most of all. After she and her husband both died he adopted her children Éomer and Éowyn as his own. He had a son, Théodred, whose mother Elfhild died in childbirth.

In T.A. 3014 Théoden's health began to fail. This due to natural causes (he was sixty-six), but have been induced and increased by subtle poisons administered by Gríma. Gríma (or Wormtongue as most others in the Mark called him), was secretly in the employ of Saruman the White.