( The Fellowship of the Ring, Book I, Chapter 3) And on the other hand, you have the Dead Men of Dunharrow: this is the ghostly host of ancient oathbreakers that Aragorn summons to his aid for the War of the Last Alliance.
Round the corner came a black horse, no hobbit-pony but a full-sized horse and on it sat a large man, who seemed to crouch in the saddle, wrapped in a great black cloak and hood, so that only his boots in the high stirrups showed below his face was shadowed and invisible.
On the one hand, you have the iconic Black Riders slouching and hooded on their evil steeds: There we get two different flavours of undead cavalry. Deathly riders passed from folklore and art, and into the world of modern fantasy literature with such works as Tolkien's Lord of the Rings (1954).
