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=== Bayeux Tapestry style ===

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[[File:Odo bayeux tapestry.png|thumb|upright=1.25|Tolkien stated that the styles of the [[Bayeux Tapestry]] (detail shown) fitted the [[Rohirrim]] "well enough".<ref name="Letter 211" group=T>{{harvnb|Carpenter|2023|loc=No. 211 }}</ref>]]

In a 1958 letter to Rhona Beare, one of a group of enthusiasts, Tolkien stated that the Rohirrim "were not '[[Mediaeval]]' in our sense" (as the [[Third Age]] was meant to be thousands of years earlier) but that all the same "the styles of the [[Bayeux Tapestry]] (made in England) fit them well enough", explaining that the soldiers in the tapestry are wearing [[chain-mail]].<ref name="Letter 211" group=T/>