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Originally Posted by Duruss
I really liked this week's episode as it has moved some major events forward and Middle Earth is now a bit more familiar.
What I didn't like was the beautiful cavalry charge; at that point they wouldn't have known about the siege of the town and were just exhausting their horses. However it did look amazing.
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This will maybe sound like lore-retconning, but in some of Tolkien's writing, the horses that came from Numenor to Middle Earth were the ancestors of the Mearas line of horses that included Shadowfax. In LotR, we have Shadowfax doing a two-day straight hard ride with two riders. Whether Shadowfax is a descendent of Numenorean horses or not, Tolkien definitely intended Numenorean horses to be capable of physical feats beyond that of regular horses (like Numenoreans themselves).