Partially because my memory of it is better, or more recent anyway. I haven't read the books in, oh, five/six years. Maybe more, I'm not sure. I've been skimming them since I started this misguided thingie, but I don't really have time to wallow like I probably should. Partially because I do think PJ is doing some interesting things with the Rohan plotline. And partially in response to something someone told me in RL, that Theoden had been ruined, ruined! and all things Rohirric had been made shallow and meaningless. Pshaw.