“Horsey” Vikings II — exploring origin of the “Rohirrim” in The Lord of the Rings
Stephen Bainbridge at
Professor Bainbridge.com
responded to Impearls' earlier piece on the
Sarmatians
(permalink)
with a rebuttal,
“Were the Rohirrim Sarmatians? No.”
I'm a bit bemused by Prof. Bainbridge's reply, because as Impearls' earlier article tried to make clear, it was Peter Jackson's version of The Lord of the Rings (and the filmmakers' declared grafting together of the memorable Vikings from history with their need for a horse-oriented culture to populate the land of Rohan) to which it was responding.
(It's way too many years ago that I read Tolkien for me to feel comfortable replying thus to the original books.)
Bainbridge, on the contrary, explicitly talks about Tolkien's version of Middle Earth, from which obviously the Jacksonian films have somewhat diverged.
This makes the comparison a bit apples and oranges.
Impearls will rise to the occasion nonetheless!
See below for various parts of the discussion, including consideration of candidate
peoples.
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