Alan Sisto
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
First, the other route, was that even an option for them?
What would that have looked like?
Taken a long time.
Yeah.
600 more miles.
Yeah, the year before.
Yeah.
I mean, the text suggests, oh, you know, it's not that risky anymore because Sauron's been defeated, but obviously they find out the hard way.
It was not so.
Yeah, but it was not so.
So yeah, talk to us a little bit about why Numenoreans are just not a cavalry force.
Wow, that's a long way from home.
Yeah.
We talked about the difficulty of transporting large numbers of troops.
I would imagine transporting large numbers of cavalry is even more complicated.
I mean, that was one of my big gripes with Rings of Power was like, how did you show up with this cavalry force?
Where did you put all of these on these ships?
I mean, I know it's real.
It's been done in history, but it's not an easy thing, right?
Wow.