Alan Sisto

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5,555 appearances 12 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 7 Jul

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The Prancing Pony Podcast · 416 – The Sound of Silence · 7 Jun 2026 podcast

Anybody's ever seen.

And they're sort of embedded in their culture.

And the other is they have women fighters.

Like they're,

But to me personally, this is... He's got some really great women fighters, though, doesn't he?

I mean, Galadriel is described as having tremendous martial talent, being a leader of soldiers.

She herself is...

Amazonian in one of his letters, yeah.

And she would basically regularly defeat other elves in feats of skill and things like that.

So, yeah, it's interesting.

Because we also see women fighters with Rohirrim, with the Aotheod before them.

And we even see women fighters among the bad guys with the... It's either the Wainriders or the Balchoth.

I think it's the Balchoth because when they get...

to their villages and are going to burn them down, they find that the women there are fighting, right?

Along with some of the old men.

Anyway, interesting stuff.

Now, even though they did have women fighters, they didn't typically include women in the forces that they sent to fight with their allies.

So they basically would fight more when it was defending their own forests, their own woods.

And I wonder if...

And part of me is like, well, why not?

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