horses of middle earth

[Gwaihir the Windlord]

Gwaihir, You seem so certain about elves and horses not having any old links.

Ach, I hate it when people accuse me of surety. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] You just can't have all that much of it, when you discuss something like this... at any rate, I am not sure. As I said in my post, the Elvish connection is a possibility; I simply see no reason why it should really exist.

I do not doubt that elves have their ways with lesser things including animals, but simply the fact that they were in Middle Earth for a long time would mean that they mastered horses for as long.

Especially animals. That Glorfindel's own horse had something 'Elvish' about it I suspect to be solely because he was an Elda himself (and that it lived in Rivendell); Legolas could have calmed down any scared horse without there being an obvious 'ancient connection'.

The horse-connection of the Rohirrim was a very ancient one, remember. Their people lived in the Vales of Anduin -- where the mearas originated, in fact -- for a very long time indeed.

Mmmmmm....