`Not this at least.' said Boromir, 'that they will buy their lives with horses. Who knows what you will find there, if ever you return?' `The shadow of Mordor lies on distant lands,' answered Aragorn. I know the Men of Rohan true and valiant, our allies, dwelling still in the lands that we gave them long ago.' 'Nor is it now, I will swear,' said Boromir. It was not so when last I was in that land.' 'Then he must be a noble beast indeed,' said Aragorn 'and it grieves me more than many tidings that might seem worse to learn that Sauron levies such tribute. '"They pay a tribute of horses," he answered, "and send many yearly to Mordor, or so it is said but they are not yet under the yoke."Īragorn worries that this may be true, but Boromir dismisses the possibility:
'"Are the men of Rohan still to be trusted, do you think?" I said to Gwaihir, for the treason of Saruman had shaken my faith. At the Council of Elrond, Gandalf relates a rumor that Rohan tributes horses to Mordor:
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