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Famous Horses in Mythology and famous Horses
in Literature
Horses in Mythology
Arion, an immortal, extremely swift horse
Arvak and Alsvid pulled Sol's chariot
Baku, horse-bodied dream-eaters
Centaur, part human, part horse
Dyaus Pita, the Sky Father, who appears as a horse
Embarr was Niamh's horse
Gandharva, male nature spirits, usually part horse
Hengroen, King Arthur's horse
Llamrei, King Arthur's mare
Hofvarpnir, horse of the goddess Gna in Norse mythology
the Mares of Diomedes, which fed on human flesh
Pegasus, a winged horse
the Sileni, a half-man, half-horse race in Greek mythology
the Trojan Horse
Skinfaxi was Dagur's horse
Sleipnir, Odin's eight-legged horse
Unicorns, a species of horned horse
Widow-Maker, mythical cowboy Pecos Bill's horse
Horses in Literature
Arod, Legolas's horse in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
Artax, Atreyu's horse in Michael Ende's The Neverending Story
Bill the Pony, owned by the Hobbits in The Lord of the Rings
Binky, ridden by Death in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels
Black Beauty, from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Black Bess, Dick Turpin's horse.
The Black, from a series of 21 books by Walter Farley beginning
with The Black Stallion (1941)
Boxer, from Animal Farm by George Orwell
Breehy-hinny-brinny-hoohy-hah ("Bree" for short), from The Horse
and His Boy by C. S. Lewis
Bumpkin, Merry Brandybuck's horse in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord
of the Rings
Many 'Companions', which are human spirits reincarnated in the
form of white horses in Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar series of
books.
Concorde, the mount of Sir Lancelot in Monty Python and the Holy
Grail (not a real horse, but a page banging coconuts together)
Condor, the mount of Green Rider Karigan G'ladheon in Kristen
Britain's Green Rider series of books
De Lü, the mount of Chinese warlord Liu Bei in the Romance of
Three Kingdoms
Fatty Lumpkin, horse owned by Tom Bombadil in The Lord of the
Rings
Firefoot, horse owned by Éomer in The Lord of the Rings by J. R.
R. Tolkien
Flame, from The Black Stallion series
Flicka, from My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara
the Houyhnhnms, a race of intelligent and cultured horses in
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
The Golden Ass, 2nd century AD Roman novel in Latin.
Hasufel, Aragorn's horse in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the
Rings
Hwin, from The Horse and His Boy by C. S. Lewis
Captain Jinks' horse, of the Horse Marines, fed on corn and beans
in the nursery rhyme
Lark, from The Berserker's Horse by Lisa Maxwell
Misty of Chincoteague, a real pony made famous by Marguerite
Henry's children's book of the same name
Nara, a Hunnuli or magical horse, from The Dark Horse series by
Mary H. Herbert
the Pie, from National Velvet by Enid Bagnold
Rocinante, from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Red Hare, the mount of L� Bu and Guan Yu in the Chinese epic
Romance of Three Kingdoms
Šarac or Sharkolia, horse of Prince Marko
Roheryn, horse owned by Aragorn in J. R. R. Tolkien'sThe Lord of
the Rings
Satan, from The Black Stallion series
Shadowfax, Gandalf's horse from The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R.
Tolkien
Sharp-ears, horse owned by Merry Brandybuck from The Lord of the
Rings
Silver Blaze, eponymous hero of a Sherlock Holmes story by Arthur
Conan Doyle
Snowmane, horse owned by King Théoden from The Lord of the Rings
Strider, pony owned by Frodo Baggins from The Lord of the Rings
Stybba, pony owned by Merry Brandybuck of The Lord of the Rings
Swish-tail, pony owned by Merry Brandybuck of The Lord of the
Rings
White-socks, pony owned by Merry Brandybuck of The Lord of the
Rings
Windfola, horse of Dernhelm ridden by Éowyn from The Lord of the
Rings
Wise-nose, pony owned by Merry Brandybuck of The Lord of the
Rings
See also:
Horses in Racing, Military
& Other
Horses in Films,
Television & Song
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