Fingon maintained a force of mounted archers, the ones who drove the half-grown Glaurung back to Angband. Of course, that doesn't address the saddle question, since some Native Americans, especially the Comanche, were superb bareback archers.
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The entire plot of The Lord of the Rings could be said to turn on what Sauron didn’t know, and when he didn’t know it.
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