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The Rohirrim had increased since the days of Folcwine, and before the attacks of Saruman a Full Muster would probably have produced many more than twelve thousand Riders, so that Rohan would not have been denuded en¬tirely of trained defenders. No such host, of course, had ever ridden all together to war beyond the Mark but Théoden’s claim that he might, in this great peril, have led out an expedition of ten thousand Riders ( The Return of the King V 3) was no doubt justified. But after the recovery of the Rohirrim and the reorganization of their forces in the days of King Folcwine, a hundred years before the War of the Ring, a ‘full éored’ in battle order was reck-oned to contain not less than 120 men (including the Captain), and to be one hundredth part of the Full Muster of the Riders of the Mark, not including those of the King’s Household. Any considerable body of such men, riding as a unit in exercise or on service, was called an éored. I provide the passage as best I can here for your convenient reference.ģ6 According to a note on the ordering of the Rohirrim, the éored “had no precisely fixed number, but in Rohan it was only applied to Riders, fully trained for war: men serving for a term, or in some cases permanently, in the King’s Host. And I am sure I have quoted the full passage in numerous email and news group discussions. This book, as I understand it, sold more than a million copies - and in fact has been pirated on the Internet more than once. The source for the numbers of the Riders of Rohan (and for the makeup of the Muster of Rohan) is Note 36 for the story “Cirion and Eorl”, published in Unfinished Tales. They knew perfectly well where I got the information because had discussed the passage innumerable times on the Usenet. The majority of people can be forgiven for doubting my word on topics such as the numbers of the Riders of Rohan, but frankly some of my critics have misled people.
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While that has never been true, it is true that I generally tend to limit the citations I include in my longer articles and I rarely provided any precise source citations in the essays I wrote for Suite 101 more than 10 years ago (which I have been gradually republishing in the Tolkien Essay Archive here on Xenite.Org). People often complain that I just make up stuff about Middle-earth - that I mix my speculations with the facts. Tolkien been able to bring his work to full completion.
Unfinished Tales is not Christopher Tolkien’s approximation of what that companion volume might have been (as The Silmarillion was for its sources) but it seems to include a great deal of the material that would have been included in such a book, had J.R.R. The works Christopher associates with this project were “Cirion and Eorl”, “The Disaster of the Gladden Fields”, the essay on the Druedain (only part of which was published in Unfinished Tales), “and the philological essays excerpted in ‘The History of Galadriel and Celeborn'”. And yet, one easily gets the impression that is what he was working toward, with or without clear intention. Tolkien intended to create, at the end of his life, a companion volume to The Lord of the Rings. In my 2002 essay “Middle-earth Revised, Again” (which at this writing has yet to be republished on Xenite.Org) I wrote: Still, the materials concerning the Northmen and the Rohirrim strike me as being rather finished and well-integrated into the “facts” established by The Lord of the Rings. As I have noted before, it is impossible to define a singular Tolkien canon so some people may not accept Unfinished Tales as an authoritative source of information. Tolkien about the numbers of the Riders, and that is Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth.
There is (so far as I know) only 1 book that serves as a source of authoritative information from J.R.R. Tolkien, there were more ‘Riders’ of Rohan (warriors trained and armed to serve) than there were soldiers in the kingdom’s army, the Muster of Rohan. That is, there were fewer Riders in Eorl’s host in Third Age year 2510 than Theoden could have assembled in a full muster in 3018/9. ANSWER: This is one of those questions that requires some temporal qualification.