Rohan is a realm in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy era of Middle-earth. It is also referred to as Riddermark or The Mark. (The Mark is believed to have been the Mercian name for the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Mercia, as Tolkien specialised in the Mercian dialect of Old English. It could also simply mean border land, as used in Germanic languages. Ridder itself means knight or rider in several Germanic languages. Therefore the Riddermark may be translated...
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Rohan is a realm in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy era of Middle-earth. It is also referred to as Riddermark or The Mark. (The Mark is believed to have been the Mercian name for the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Mercia, as Tolkien specialised in the Mercian dialect of Old English. It could also simply mean border land, as used in Germanic languages. Ridder itself means knight or rider in several Germanic languages. Therefore the Riddermark may be translated as "Riders' Land" or "Horsemans' Land" which corresponds to the Rohirrims love of horses. The realm is of significant importance in the author's most famous book, The Lord of the Rings.
Rohan is a grassland which lies north of its ally Gondor and north-west of Mordor, the realm of Sauron, their enemy (see maps of Middle-earth). It is inhabited by the Rohirrim, a people of herdsmen and farmers who are well-known for their horses and cavalry.
Conceptualized as the "Horse Kings of Rohan" allied with Gondor in early drafts of 1939, the Rohirrim...
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