December 31, 2023

Episode 18

Horse Girls of Middle-earth with Cait

Hosts & Guests

Cait

Cait

(she/her) Cait is a self-professed horse girl from Albuquerque, New Mexico, and if you ask her about her horse, she’ll never shut up. Her partner in riding adventures is Rocket, a 24-year-old Paint Horse. Tumblr.

Alicia

Alicia

(she/they) A queer Tolkien scholar and Zelda nerd interested in adaptation, audience reception, and biography.

Grace

Grace

(she/her) An acquirer of books, a queer-rights activist, serves as as the Subscriptions Steward of the Mythopoeic Society, and is a Professional Nerd (okay, technically it’s an unpaid internship).

Leah

Leah

(she/her) Just another weird Tolkien geek living in the Grey Havens (also known as Seattle WA) with two rabbits and far too few books.

About This Episode

Friend of the pod Cait Rottler joins Leah, Grace, and Alicia to talk all about horses and the ‘Horse Girl’ character trope. We start out with a look at the overlap between Horse Girls and Queer identity, continue with a quick review of the major tropes of Horse Girl stories (with a detour into the related genre of ‘Dragonrider’ stories), and then celebrate our favorite ‘Horse Girls’ from Middle-earth, including Movie!Aragorn/Viggo Mortensen,  Arwen, Tom Bombadil, Beorn, Glorfindel, and more.

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