#hera and wulf

[darklinaforever]

Yeah... A knew ship.

[human-for-tonight]

if your dad (1) goads the king into challenging him to a fight, (2) accepts the king's challenge to fight, (3) insults the king's daughter that he's super protective of, and (4) hits the king first in the fight then I don't think you can be that mad when the king accidentally one punch kills your dad. that's kinda on your dad for getting into that situation and I think he might've had some underlying health issues that contributed to the single punch instantly killing him

[incorrect-lord-of-the-rings]

Get behind me, WotR!!!

[torchwood-99]

Hera and the Wedding Dress

Just saw a post saying there was no point in Hera wearing that wedding dress when she confronted Wulf.

There was every point.

A major part of Wulf's motive was vengeance for not only his father's death, but Hera's "arrogance" in rejecting him. His father's death and Hera's rejection were intertwined in his head, the anger for one fuelled the anger for the other.

Wulf had no reason to duel Hera, except for vengeance.

Hera needed to make Wulf make a bad decision, and to do that she needed to push all his triggers. She needed to get his anger levels rocketing up to one hundred.

And how was she going to do that?

By riding up to him in a fucking wedding dress.

The minute he saw her in that dress, he was spitting vinegar.

Hera knew Wulf's motivations, knew his flaws, and knew the best way of making him make a bad decision, and she acted on that.

That dress was psychological war play.

[jay-wasstuff]

Spoilers for War of The Rohirrim below:

No one sang songs or told stories about Hera.

Her brothers were the one who died in war, her father died frozen standing alone against Wulf's men, her cousin Frealaf would then rescue everyone and ascend the throne.

The people saw Frealaf as the one who 'saved' them, the one who brought an army and defeated Wulf's army.

That then would lead to Frealaf being the one to take the throne and wear the crown of Rohan - the one who the people would now see and would be led by until his death.

Hera would then leave alongside Olwyn for Gandalf's invitation, with the instrument that helped created the songs with the only two people who knew what actually happened on the field meant Hera would leave the history books and people's stories.

Frealaf wouldn't sing of Hera because he doesn't know what happened, Rohan's people were too busy rebuilding a kingdom, the entire royal bloodline almost dead, Wulf was killed, Olwyn left with Hera...

No one sang songs or told stories about Hera.

[lady-of-the-spirit]

Just saw War of the Rohirrim yesterday and already seeing bad takes

NO HERA SHOULD NOT HAVE MARRIED WULF. She didn't want to marry anyone in the first place and hearing him say he wanted to kill her whole family didn't do him any favours!!!

[silly-dandelion]

A little bonus:

[dellamortethelesser]

SO EXCITED!!! These are the sneak peek images we got about the War of the Rohirrim!!! This animation style is gorgeous and I’m really looking forward to this movie.

Check out the article here!

[noname-nonartist]

Late night sloppy colored drawing of Hera and Wulf from the LotR animated movie because I still really enjoyed the charactersssssss~

[aldarquen]

Inaugural War of the Rohirrim memes without context

[a-caramel-addict]

I have watched War of the Rohirrim. I have slept on it. It's time to make my unpopular opinion everyone's problem!

Repeat after me:

Wulf didn't deserve to die like that.

Don't get me wrong. I hate him from the bottom of my heart. But he didn't deserve to die the way he did.

He forced Hera to kill him like he tried to force her to marry him.

He got what he wanted ultimately. He was obsessed with Hera. He couldn't be loved by her, he couldn't be satisfied with being her friend. He decided that negative attention was better than being her friend. He chose to be her enemy. He chose to try to kill her whole family. (Not for revenge for his father, no, for attention, for Hera's attention)

Because if he had reached out she would have been his friend, she tried to look for him. But he didn't reach out. He didn't want to be her friend, he wanted to be more. To be one of her most-s. Most hated, most loved, where's the difference.

And this is why I hate him. He didn't deserve to be killed by her. He didn't respect her choice not to marry, he didn't respect her choice to not kill somebody she had called a friend as a child. Even when it was in his interest to respect it. He deserved to be killed by random rider, he deserved to be captured and judged for his crime against the people of Rohan, crimes among which his attempts to get Hera to marry him is unimportant note. So repeat after me:

Wulf didn't deserve to die the way he did.

[mhevarujta]

After the whole "was I so easily forgotten?", Wulf purposefully hurts Hèra in an attempt to scar her. By that point, Hèra has spent years of thinking of him and worrying about him, but he doesn't value that because it wasn't in the exact way he wanted.

By the time she faces him again and wears the wedding dress to manipulate his emotions, the scar is gone and I appreciate this writing choice so much. She still cares for him, but his attempt to mark her the way she marked him has failed, just like all his attempts to mold her and shape her to fit his own desires.

I love that Hèra is not forever scarred by him and that she ultimately has the freedom that he would never have allowed her.

[jay-wasreblogging]

Patiently waiting for fanfics to drop for Frealaf, Háma, Haleth, Hera, the fucking dilf - ANYONE!! 😭

[dandexllions]

THEM 🤎

[jay-wasstuff]

BISEXUALS!? ASSEMBLE!

[fairyringsandwings]

Wulf wanted Héra to kill him during their final battle

The battle was lost. Wulf could not beat her no matter how hard he tried and Héra could not bring herself to kill him. To force her hand, he repeats their childhood battle.

Wulf gets his scar during a play fight with Héra. He lets his emotions take over him after she starts winning and lashes out violently, forcing Héra to fight back just as harshly to defend herself. He is scarred as a result.

"From the moment I met you I knew you would be my doom." - Wulf to Héra 

After Wulf says this line during the final battle, I think this is when he truly has given up on trying to defeat Héra and shifts to trying to force her to put him out of his misery.

After uttering her name he throws a dagger to distract her and then lunges at her with his longer sword. He has an opportunity to impale her directly, but he misses, his sword moving to the side of her instead. Héra grabs his wrist to attempt to stop the attack, but if that blade had been intended to impale her, it would have been too late and already gone straight through her. He missed on purpose.

By this point, he wanted her to end things and he knew the only way she would do that, was if she was forced too. So just like that first fight as children, he lashes out with everything he has.

And it works.

Small note. During this moment when they are both in a temporary stalemate in each other's arms, the camera does show Wulf looking at Héra. It's hard to interpret what he's thinking in that moment, but the look he gives her feels telling. A silent goodbye perhaps? A moment to savour being so near too her before he forces her to end things?

He truly did love her (not in a healthy sense, certainly) but there is a lot of irony about their final battle that he must notice.

Wulf wanted to marry Héra but she rejected him. And now here she is in a bridal gown that she dawns as armour. Instead of a bouquet of flower, there is a sword in her hand. In place of an aisle, she walks down a siege tower to greet him. Instead of being surrounded by their loved ones, they are all dead and buried. A twisted sickly version of everything he wanted.