So, I was randomly watching one of the Lord of the Rings movies where at the end there are all these guys riding down a big hill on horses to attack their enemies in some big very important battle. And it struck me at that point, while I was watching this… those poor damn horses!  Horses are generally very peaceful animals.  I know they’ve got their issues, but generally speaking you don’t see horses starting wars with other horses and planning ways to take over the land from where other horses are hanging out.  Yet those horses are used by humans for this purpose, thrown into some battle that they, personally, don’t really even care about, just to get a spear plunged into their eye or heart.  That sucks!  The horses have nothing against those other people, or even against the other horses that the “enemy” are riding on – mostly, they would just like to run around in a field and eat grass and have some naked lady with long hair ride on top of them (who wouldn’t on this last one).  This whole war thing is something that horses just don’t give a shit about.  So, I was feeling very bad for the horses when I was watching this move – this is not their way.  They are being seriously manipulated by humans, and they so graciously ride into death because some fucked up human (or other creature of middle earth) asked them to.