"No
one else would dare to ride through the open land, so full of foul Orcs, so I
was sent. And I have had a perilous journey, and I am hungry and weary. I fled
far north out of my way, pursued by wolves.”
"Poor
old Gríma! Poor old Gríma! Always beaten and cursed. How I hate him! I wish
I could leave him!"
"...there
is a third kind: pickers of bones, meddlers in other men’s sorrows,
carrion-fowl that grow fat on war. What aid have you ever brought,
Stormcrow?"
"Let
your counsellor Gríma keep all things till your return – and I pray that we
may see it, though no wise man will deem it hopeful."
"Assuredly
not, lord. I care for you and yours as best I may. But do not weary
yourself, or tax too heavily your strength. Let others deal with these irksome
guests. Your meat is about to be set on the board. Will you not go to it?"
The
counselor of Théoden King of Rohan, who acted as a spy of Saruman to keep the
country of Rohan weak. When Gandalf and crew arrived at Rohan and
revitalized King Théoden, Gríma was exposed as a fraud and expelled from
Edoras. He fled to Isengard and was imprisoned with Saruman by the Ents in
the tower of Orthanc.
After the destruction of Isengard by the Ents, he
was eventually released and accompanied Saruman northward to the Shire. He later murdered the Wizard
out of revenge for mistreatment, and was shot as he fled.
