Háma

Doorward of Meduseld

Háma was the Doorward of the Golden Hall of Edoras and the captain of King Théoden's guard in the last days of the king's decline. He is not to be confused with the Háma who was the younger son of Helm Hammerhand and was lost in the Long Winter.

When Gandalf came to Meduseld on 2 March 3019 with Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli, Háma had orders from Gríma that no stranger should enter armed. He took their swords and axe, soothing Aragorn's anger over the sword of Elendil, and then faced the question of the wizard's staff. He decided, on his own responsibility, that an old man might be allowed a stick to lean on, and let it pass. It was the decision on which the healing of Théoden turned, and Gríma bitterly noted whose doing it was. When the king rose and cast out Wormtongue, Háma was sent to fetch Éomer from prison, and it was Háma who, asked whom the people would trust in the king's absence, answered that they would follow the House of Eorl and named Éowyn.

Death at the Hornburg

Háma rode west with the king and fought in the night battle at Helm's Deep. He was killed before the gate of the Hornburg, and the Orcs hewed his body after he was dead, a thing Théoden threw in Saruman's face at the parley below Orthanc. He was buried in a grave of his own in the shadow of the Hornburg, apart from the mounds of the other fallen, and the king cast the first earth on it with his own hands.

Slain before the gate of the Hornburg on the night of 3 to 4 March 3019 and buried alone beneath its shadow.