Tag: especially more black

Lin, I’m the Dark Lord. Not the bay lord, not the dappled lord, not the dun lord, not the pinto lord. 

The unblazoned sable field was Melkor’s standard; it is a tradition, an homage, and a calling card. The lords of Rohan knew it was no petty horse thieves, but Mordor who claimed their stallions. I offered to buy; they refused to treat with me.  It was politics, as much as aesthetics, that made me choose the black, to send a message. 

And it was only enough to supply my Nazgul and lordly servants. Orcs do not ride horses; there was no need to furnish my entire army with steeds.