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ArchivesRe: Typical question, sorry!!!!
in reply to a message by Nanaea
Actually, this is the kind of question that makes me grit my teeth in frustration, because I could probably answer it quickly if my reference books weren't all packed.
Rohan was, of course, "the Horse Country", the grassland kingdom of the horsemen in "The Lord of the Rings". I think Tolkien explained the source of this name in his fascinating volume of personal letters as a minor duchy or some such landholding in royalist France, and that he picked it up simply because he liked the sound. There was a "Comte de Rohan" or similar, I think, so it has some prior usage as part of a name.
There are rowan trees in Scotland? Not in my auntie's parlor, or pub car parks, or the other places I frequent there. I'll have to look harder next time.
Rohan was, of course, "the Horse Country", the grassland kingdom of the horsemen in "The Lord of the Rings". I think Tolkien explained the source of this name in his fascinating volume of personal letters as a minor duchy or some such landholding in royalist France, and that he picked it up simply because he liked the sound. There was a "Comte de Rohan" or similar, I think, so it has some prior usage as part of a name.
There are rowan trees in Scotland? Not in my auntie's parlor, or pub car parks, or the other places I frequent there. I'll have to look harder next time.
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