The description of the attack of the Rohirrim and of their "
fair and terrible " singing is, in my opinion, one of the most beautiful images from
LOTR. I doubt that there has been any reader that has not been moved by that scene. And it seems to fit very well with the way the Rohirrims are described by Aragorn, in "The Two Towers" , chapter two, "The Riders of Rohan":
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...singing many songs after the manner of the children of Men before the Dark Years.
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I like the fact that they are compared to the children of Men. Maybe this gives them a way of thinking which is different from that of the Men of Gondor, they see things in a much more simple manner, as the first Men used to. More simple, true, but maybe also wiser, who can tell? And maybe that is why they sing during the attack and feel such a joy and a desire to fight. These things are inside them, as they were inside their ancestors. Who knows, maybe they are inside us too, we have never been faced with the situation to see how we would react. Even I, when I watch the charge of the Rohirrim from
ROTK the movie for the twentieth time, feel my mind go blank and I start trembling and clenching my fists.