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# Reportedly, women played most of the Riders of Rohan in “The Lord of the Rings”
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/pishut-chto-bolshinstvo-vsadnikov-rokhana-na-semkakh-vlastelina-kolets-igrali-zhenshchiny-s-prikleenoi-borodoi-i-usami-prichem-oni-byli-verkhom-na-sobstvennykh-loshadiakh/
- Published: 2024-07-03T06:37:02.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T18:40:40.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Cinema, Humour

It is said that most of the Riders of Rohan in the filming of The Lord of the Rings were played by women with glued-on beards and moustaches, riding their own horses. It follows that, had Éowyn and Merry not slain the Witch-king of Angmar, any rank-and-file Rohirrim would have managed it, who by sheer chance were likewise not mortal men.

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