Folca was a magnificant hunter. However, he
wouldn't kill a living
beast till he found and slew every orc in Rohan. When he accomplished
this feat he went on a boar hunt and, although he
killed the boar, he later died of the wounds it gave him.
Folca
Folca was
the thirteenth King of Rohan. He was the son of
Walda,
the
twelfth King
of Rohan, and with the shortest reign of all the kings.
Folca was the fourth king since the begining of
the second line of
the Kings of Rohan occurred when
Helm Hammerhand and his two sons,
Haleth
and
Hama, froze to death in the Hornburg. At this time, Helm's
sister-son and Folca's
great-grandfather,
Frealaf, became king.
Folca became king after the Orcs of the
North troubled Rohan and slew
his father,
Walda. This is probably the reason why Folca vowed to
hunt no
wild beast until every orc was driven from Rohan.
Folca did achieve his goal. He was
known all over the South Kingdoms
as a very proficent hunter, and when the last orc-hold was found and
destroyed,
he went out to find more troublesome beasts.
This led him to the oak eaves of
Firienwood set at the foot of the
Ered Nimrais, at the border between Rohan and Gondor. There an
enormous,
infamous boar, the Boar of Everholt, dwelt. Folca chased the boar down,
and after a long fight the boar was slain.
Unfortunately, the great boar put up such a fight that Folca was
overwhelmed
by the wounds the Everholt boar's tusks delt to him, and he died.
Folca's son,
Folcwine,
took up the crown
when Folca fell. Folcwine fulfilled
the Oath between Cirion and
Eorl many times, as Gondor aided Rohan
often
against the Dunlanders, and Rohan aided Gondor often against the
Haradrim.
Reference:
The Return of the King
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