| | Conscientious Objector: Speculations on Middle Earth: Rhovanion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | If, for instance, Rhovanion were settled by nomads (Easterlings, basically) who had moved into a region that required cultivation for them to survive, then we can expect that Rhovanion society would have retained much of its emphasis on the prestige of the mounted warrior. |
 | | Alternately, if Rhovanion were settled by agriculturalists who only later developed a profitable trade in horses, then we can expect that society would still have retained a strong respect for and basis in the land, with the horse-trading elite being a relatively late addition to which older hierarchies would have had to adjust. |
 | | Evidence about Rhovanion is so scant that it's hardly worth taking this as more than a bit of trivia, but it does suggest that significant power and a "landed" interest were not considered an odd combination in Rhovanion, and that suggests the picture of agriculturalists who turned into horse breeders. |
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