Chariots were used by Easterlings of the Third Age for transportation and for war.[1]
History
During the invasion of the Wainriders the chieftains of the Wainriders fought in chariots.[2]
In T.A. 1944 in the battle known as the Disaster of the Morannon the vanguard of the Wainriders and their allies from Khand, which consisted of war-chariots of the Wainriders and a force of cavalry, surprised the main force of Gondor, which was led by King Ondoher. The enemy vanguard crashed into the disordered line of the main force of Gondor, killed King Ondoher and his son Artamir with almost all of the king's Guard, and pushed the Gondorian soldiers back, dispersing and pursuing many of them to the west into the Dead Marshes.[1]
Later in the Third Age, on 26 February T.A. 3019,[3] Frodo Baggins had a vision of the chariots of chieftains coming from the East when he sat on the Seat of Seeing on Amon Hen, the Hill of the Eye.[4] It is unknown whether these chariots were used in battle or for transportation.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Unfinished Tales, "Cirion and Eorl and the Friendship of Gondor and Rohan", "(i) The Northmen and the Wainriders"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix A, "The Númenorean Kings", "Gondor and the Heirs of Anárion", entry for King Narmacil II, p. 1048
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix B, "The Great Years", entry for the year 3019, February 26, p. 1092
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, "The Breaking of the Fellowship", pp. 400-1