Athrabeth

Episode 10: The A-Neigh-zing Horses of Middle Earth part 1

Episode Summary

What started as a joke about ranking of all the horses of Middle-earth as a palate cleanser for Stef after so many episodes about souls and eschatology, has turned into two of our best episodes, courtesy of Stef's unbridled enthusiasm for hoses and Tolkien! Enjoy this first in our two part series on the Horses of Middle-earth!

Episode Notes

What started as a joke about ranking of all the horses of Middle-earth as a palate cleanser for Stef after so many episodes about souls and eschatology, has turned into two of our best episodes, courtesy of Stef's unbridled enthusiasm for hoses and Tolkien! Enjoy this first in our two part series on the Horses of Middle-earth!

Show Notes
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Works Referenced This Episode
Hrothgar's Horses: Feral or Thoroughbred? by Jennifer Neville
“Hwær Cwom Mearh? The horse in Anglo-Saxon England” by Sarah Larratt Keefer, from the Journal of Medieval History

Tolkien and the Great War by John Garth
JRR Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix A, "The House of Eorl"
JRR Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings (Books 1-3)
J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion