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  1. goodreads.com

    "Let this be the hour when we draw swords together. Fell deeds awake. Now for wrath, now for ruin, and the red dawn. Forth, Eorlingas!" ― J. R. R. Tolkein, The Lord of the Rings
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    Now for wrath, now for ruin, and the red dawn. Forth, Eorlingas! In the books, Theoden-King delivers a similar speech/poem before the Battle of Pelenor Fields: ... Commented Jun 24, 2021 at 10:03. 6. As for the choice of words, "Fell deeds awake, fire and slaughter" looks to be modeled on Anglo-Saxon poetry with, in this case, first and third ...
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  1. It was a reference to the Old Norse Völuspá, not Hamlet

    In The History of Middle-earth, when discussing the writing of this passage, Christopher Tolkien says:

    In the remainder of The Ride of the Rohirrim' the final form was achieved in this manuscript almost word for word: the speech of Wídfara about the change in the wind, the disposition of the companies of the Rohirrim, Merry's fear that the king would quail and turn back, his great cry (with echoes of the Old Norse Völuspá) 'Arise, arise, Riders of Theoden ...', and the likening of Theoden to 'Orome the Great in the Battle of the Valar when the world was young.'
    The History of Middle-earth volume VIII - The War of the Ring - page 353

    Christopher is likely referring to this stanza of the Völuspá (translation from here):

    Brœðr muno beriaz | ok at bǫnom verða,
    muno systrungar | sifiom spilla.
    Hart er í heimi, | hórdómr mikill.
    Skeggǫld, skálmǫld, | skildir ro klofnir.
    Vindǫld, vargǫld, | áðr verǫld steypiz.
    Mun engi maðr | ǫðrom þyrma.

    Brothers shall fight | and fell each other,
    And sisters' sons | shall kinship stain;
    Hard is it on earth, | with mighty whoredom;
    Axe-time, sword-time, | shields are sundered,
    Wind-time, wolf-time, | ere the world falls;
    Nor ever shall men | each other spare.

    Incidentally, while researching this answer, I found that the TV show Vikings also used this war cry.

    (It should also be noted that Tolkien would have been familiar with Hamlet, as it was one of the set texts that he had to read as an undergraduate at Oxford, and one of his final exam papers there was on Shakespeare. Tolkien also is known to have seen a performance of it in 1944 (Letters #76), has very briefly referenced it in two of his published academic lectures. However he very much didn't like Shakespeare and one of his actions as a professor was to remove him from the syllabus. It's unlikely that he would be referencing Hamlet here.)

    --ibid

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