...could talk anyone to bed if he put his mind to it.

...wants to KILL THEM ALL. Except Éomer and Éowyn.

...sometimes wants to kill Éomer and Éowyn as well.

...sometimes doesn't want to kill Théoden, but the moments are fleeting. The fly all the quicker if he starts remembering the times before Théoden was reduced to helplessness.

...is a very smart, but very troubled young man.

...is rather younger than anyone else supposes.

...looks older than he is because he has been sickly since birth.

...hates sunlight, because it hurts his eyes and burns his skin until it's covered in angry red blotches; and because it reminds him of watching from the shadows while other children play.

...was never wanted in the other children's games, because he was pale, skinny and funny-looking.

...couldn't even lift Éomer's sword on a normal day, but can be surprisingly strong when high on adrenalin.

...was raised by his mother, who was a chambermaid of Théodwyn, and always disapproved of her son even speaking to the children of her former mistress. After Théodwyn's death, she was the nurse of Éomer and Éowyn, but a distant one, and later a constant butt of their jokes, which she hated. She died when Éomer and Gríma were fourteen, following her husband, who had gone not two weeks after their marriage. She was a cool woman, and ashamed of her freakish son, but Gríma treasured the times when they were together and she on a gentle mood, when she would sing and joke and talk, and wash his hair by the fire, sometimes even playfully braiding it.

...especially wants to kill the boys that kicked him around when he was young, who are now brave Rohirrim.

...dreams of golden hair, sometimes wanting to kiss it, sometimes wanting to rip it in bloody chunks off the scalp it's attached to.

...knew Saruman would betray him almost as soon as he was out of the range of Saruman's suggestive voice, but thought he could outthink the old man anyway.

...lost everything when he was exiled from Edoras, but while he rode through the meadows on the way to Saruman experienced the only taste of freedom he had in his adult life.