Imagine no religion

[Pitchwife]

Originally Posted by skip spence

T wanted his characters to be sort of 'noble savages', like say Aristotle.

*harrumph!* I have to object to hearing Aristotle called a savage, however noble! He probably was one of the most civilized men of his time; no paint and feathers on him! (Never mind though, I got your meaning.)

As for the Rohirrim and their afterlife - considering that they were modelled on the Anglo-Saxons (and, in their distant past, the Goths and other Germanic people), I wonder whether they expected to check into the Eternal Meadhall or ride with Béma's Hunt when they died; but the only glimpse of their views of that matter are Théoden's words in The King of the Golden Hall:

"I myself will go to war, to fall in the front of the battle, if it must be. Thus shall I sleep better."