Even if Merry "trained" night and day, he wouldn't have been able to ride and fight with the cavalry. Most of the Rohirrim were trained since childhood in the use of sword, pike, shield, and warhorse. Merry didn't have that training, and thus, was at a big disadvantage. At best during the final charge, he'd fall off his horse and cause a large-scale riot, because a horse's instinct is to avoid a moving object on the ground, and all the other horses would immediately shy away from him. Now, does Theoden really want that?
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.
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