Grima Wormtongue Character Analysis

In most adventure based stories you have the good guy and the bad guy, each has a spectacular story on why they are how they are, what their motives are, and what they’ve done in their life to get there. Then you have the “Evil Sidekick”, that slimy mischievous character with no back story, very few strengths, and a creepy appearance. We often wonder why they are the way they are, how they became manipulated, and if they truly are evil or just severely messed up and confused. Grima Wormtongue is the kings advisor meant to aid him and counsel him in important matters but at some point before the beginning of Two Towers he is manipulated by Saruman to become his spy and slowly poison the mind of the king so that he loses the strength of the kingdom allowing Saruman to move forward with his plans to become all powerful. Wormtongue nearly accomplishes his task using many …show more content…
Gandalf seeing how powerless the king had become encourages Theoden to recover his rightful strength as king and fight against Saruman. The king slowly starts to return to his former glory and seeing this Wormtongue tries again to manipulate his and make him feel powerless as well as make Gandalf seem like the problem, at this Gandalf becomes angry bringing to light the treachery and evil works against the King by Wormtongue. He reveals Wormtongue for who he truly is and Wormtongue loses all power against the King. Now with a new found strength and support from Gandalf, Theoden is able to rise as the true king he is and decides that he is to storm Isengard and take care of Saruman for all that he has done. He enters his new era of ruling by releasing Eomer from his wrongful imprisonment and banishing Wormtongue from Rohan thus ending the hold that was upon