Horn (rider of Rohan)

The name Horn refers to more than one character, item or concept. For a list of other meanings, see Horn (disambiguation).

Horn
Rohir
Horn from The Lord of the Rings Online
Biographical Information
Location	Rohan
Language	Rohirric
Death	15 March, T.A. 3019 Battle of the Pelennor Fields
Physical Description
Gender	Male
Gallery	Images of Horn

Horn was a man of Rohan during the War of the Ring.

History

Horn fought and died in the Battle of the Pelennor Fields. His name is remembered in the poem Song of the Mounds of Mundburg.

Etymology

Horn is Old English for "horn".

Portrayal in adaptations

2012: The Lord of the Rings Online: Riders of Rohan:

Horn is a prominent character in the game and accompanies the player throughout all of their travels in Riddermark. He comes from the town of Eaworth in the Entwash Vale is the youngest child of its Reeve Ingbert. He has an older brother Ingmar and a sister Ingyth. Though capable with a sword, Horn wished in his heart to be a minstrel, of which his father did not approve. He had apprenticeship under King Theoden's minster Gleowine until he spoke out against Grima Wormtongue and was sentenced to the border outpost of Stangard, north of the river Limlight, an forbidden to set foot into Rohan proper.

It is in Stangard where the player first meets Horn, accompanied by a young woman from Dunland Nona, who had been waging her own private war on Saruman after her brother was killed by his servants. The Rohirrim men do not allow the Dunlending into their settlement, but otherwise raise no arms against her. Nona and the player then go on an expedition into the Brown Lands across the Great River, and on their way back Nona is wounded in an Easterling attack. The men of Stangard refuse to aid her with the sole exception of Horn, who helps the player take Nona into the Golden Wood to the north, where Nona's life is saved by Lady Galadriel. Though he barely set wood into the forest, the other men of Rohan feel that Horn has been affected by it and he is no longer welcome in Stangard. He then join the company of the player, Nona and a Lorien elf named Corudan in their journey across Rohan in the defiance of the ban that had been placed upon him.

Having acquired steeds, the group comes across the signs of a passing band of Uruk-hai that captured Merry and Pippin and follows them across the plain on horseback. On their journey Horn and Nona begin developing affection towards one another, which comes to test when the group reaches Horn's hometown of Eaworth. Horn's father is angry at him for abandoning his post, but none of the Rohirrim was to as much see a Dunlending walking among them. Nona agrily storms out and unable to find her trace, Horn, Corudan and the player continue on until they meet Eomer and his riders. They travel them to the town of Snowbourn and then to Edoras, where Grima orders Eomer imprisoned and the rest banished from returning under penalty of death. King's minstrel and Horn's mentor Gleowine is exiles along with them and the group to investigate the situation in Gleowine's home country of Wildermore, from which no word has come out in some weeks. The group finds Wildermore ravaged by Saruman's forces and meets Nona, who had been helping the survivors, which mellowed her attitude towards the Rohirrim. Horn and Nona reconciled their feelings for each other and the group decides that despite the penalty of death the King must hear of what had transpired. Nona and Corudan the elf stay behind while the player, Norn and Gleowine return to Edoras, arriving soon after Theoden had been healed by Gandalf.

Gleowine joins the King's side as he rides to war, while Eomer asks the player and Horn to check on his home town of Aldburg. There they reuniter with Nona and Corudan and returns to Edoras, where Lady Eowyn makes the last preparations before leading the people to Duharrow. An agent of Wormtongue is discovered but flees the city and the player, Horn, Nona and Corudan chase after him across Westemnet. In the province of Stonedeans ruled by Reeve Herubrand they receive the word of a large rainding party of Dunlendings loyal to Saruman that had come from the mountains. Nona wishes to bring vengeance on those of her people who sided with the Wizard and Horn follows her while the player and Corudan turn south towards Helm's Deep. The player does not encounter Horn again until much later, when Theoden's army makes its way through the Druadan Forest. Horn reveals that Nona did not in truth seek the raiding the party, but wanted to escape the war now that she was pregnant with his child. She begged Horn to come with her, but he could not abandon his duty and answered the King's muster of the Rohirrim, knowing that he would never see Nona again one way or another.

Horn's ultimate fate depends on a decision made by the player much earlier in the game. During the summoning of the Grey Company, Ranger Halros guarding the borders of the Shire can be persuaded to either journey south to the aid of Aragorn or stay and perform the very task that Aragorn his chieftain personally instructed him to do. If Halros stays in the Shire, Horn dies in the battle of the Pelennor Fields. However, if Halros is persuaded to go south, he shields Horn from the mortal blow at the cost of his own life. Horrified by the death around him and the sacrifice of a man he didn't even know, Horn loses his will to go on and abandons his duty. He forsakes his name and, now a broken man, leaves into paths unknown, telling the player to report him as dead.