Helm held the fortress during the Long Winter. He blew his great war-horn, and broke through the Dunlending ranks, stalking men like a snowtroll and slaying them with his bare hands. However, his sons Haleth and Háma, were slain and Helm grew gaunt because of grief and famine; still his horn would fill the Dunlendings with fear each time it was heard. There was a belief that his horn was sometimes heard in the Deep and that his wraith still wandered through Rohan, and defended the keep that…
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