The Horn of the Mark was a silver horn made by the Dwarves. It was among their treasure that the Long-worm Scatha took from them.[1]
When Fram killed Scatha and took the horn[2], his[3] hoard became a matter of dispute between the Éothéod and the Dwarves.[4] Nonetheless, the Horn was taken by the Éothéod and apparently became an heirloom of the House of Eorl, even when they settled Rohan.
More than a thousand years later, at the end of the War of the Ring, Lady Éowyn gave the Horn to Holdwine (Meriadoc Brandybuck) as a farewell gift for his services to Rohan.[1]
On their return to the Shire, Merry used the Horn to sound the Horn-call of Buckland on 2 November 3019[5], rousing the Shire-folk against the Ruffians who had taken control of the Shire.[6]
In commemoration of those events and the liberation of the Shire, the Horn was sounded ceremonially every year at sundown on 2 November in Buckland, commencing celebrations with bonfires and feasts.[7]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, "Many Partings"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien; Christina Scull, Wayne G. Hammond (eds.), The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien, "177. Scatha the Worm (c. 1954)", manuscript note
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien; Christina Scull, Wayne G. Hammond (eds.), The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien, "177. Scatha the Worm (c. 1954)", third version
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix A, "The House of Eorl"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix B, "The Chief Days from the Fall of Barad-dûr to the End of the Third Age"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, "The Scouring of the Shire"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix D, "The Calendars"