[Rune Son of Bjarne]

I too find that Théoden only seem to be half cured of Saruman in the movies, but for some reason it has never haunted me. Wich is weird, when I can get upset over how fast a guy can remove another guys beard.

Anyways. . .
The points made by Broromir and Lalaith, reminded me of another thing that bothers me about Théoden. His age or rather that he looks very young in the movies.

Have this been brought up before? We have had the Boromir and Legolas discutions, but what about Théoden ?

The fact that he is described as a kindly old man and with old and wrinkled hands, always made me picture him grandfatherish. Now in the movies he looks fairly young to me. He is deffenitly not 71 years (as Encyclopedia of Arda just told me) Théoden is.