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ALPHABETICAL RACES PLACES MISCELLANEOUS REFERENCE INTERACTIVE SHARE User guide Latest entries FAQ and e-mail Disclaimer and bibliography Awards Old and rare words Lexicon of names Excyclopedia of Arda Movie-goer's Guides: • The Fellowship of the Ring • The Two Towers • The Return of the King The Hobbit Viewer's Companions: • An Unexpected Journey • The Desolation of Smaug • The Battle of the Five Armies Tolkien links Book news Latest Chronicle Calendar Old and rare words Lexicon of names Links Random
Dates Extant at the end of the Third Age Species Ponies (a small breed of horse) Culture Raised by the Shire-hobbits Settlements Eventually stabled in Bree Meaning Uncertain1 Indexes: Alphabetical: W Animals and Plants About this entry: Updated 1 November 2021 This entry is complete One of Merry’s ponies Years of the Trees First Age I Second Age II Third Age III Fourth Age IV One of the five ponies owned by Meriadoc Brandybuck, and used by Frodo and his companions on the first stage of their journey out of the Shire. After passing through the Old Forest, the ponies became lost on the Barrow-downs, and when Tom Bombadil set out to collect them together again, he called each of them by a name that their Hobbit owners had not heard before. One of those names was 'Wise-nose'. With the other ponies, Wise-nose travelled as far as Bree, but before their masters could mount them again, the ponies were driven out of the stables to wander in the wilds of the Bree-land. Eventually the ponies found their way back to Tom Bombadil, who in turn sent them to back to Barliman Butterbur of the Prancing Pony inn, from whose stables in Bree they had fled. Notes 1 Most of the names chosen by Tom Bombadil for the Hobbits' ponies, like 'Swish-tail' or 'White-socks', come from distinctive characteristics of the ponies in question, but 'Wise-nose' is a little more difficult to parse. It seems to be connected to Tom's comments about the ponies, saying that (compared to the Hobbits) they had '...more sense in their noses. For they sniff danger ahead...' (The Fellowship of the Ring, I 8 Fog on the Barrow-downs) Here Tom is talking about the ponies in general, but we might assume from this that Wise-nose had even more of this 'nose-sense' than the others. See also... Ponies Indexes: Alphabetical: W Animals and Plants About this entry: Updated 1 November 2021 This entry is complete For acknowledgements and references, see the Disclaimer & Bibliography page. Original content © copyright Mark Fisher 2007, 2021. All rights reserved. For conditions of reuse, see the Site FAQ. Website services kindly sponsored by Axiom Discovery aptitude and skill testing.Personality is one part of understanding a candidate's suitability, but aptitudes and skills are also key.

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SHARE User guide Latest entries FAQ and e-mail Disclaimer and bibliography Awards Old and rare words Lexicon of names Excyclopedia of Arda Movie-goer's Guides: • The Fellowship of the Ring • The Two Towers • The Return of the King The Hobbit Viewer's Companions: • An Unexpected Journey • The Desolation of Smaug • The Battle of the Five Armies Tolkien links Book news Latest Chronicle Calendar Old and rare words Lexicon of names Links Random

Dates Extant at the end of the Third Age Species Ponies (a small breed of horse) Culture Raised by the Shire-hobbits Settlements Eventually stabled in Bree Meaning Uncertain1 Indexes: Alphabetical: W Animals and Plants About this entry: Updated 1 November 2021 This entry is complete One of Merry’s ponies

Years of the Trees First Age I Second Age II Third Age III Fourth Age IV One of the five ponies owned by Meriadoc Brandybuck, and used by Frodo and his companions on the first stage of their journey out of the Shire. After passing through the Old Forest, the ponies became lost on the Barrow-downs, and when Tom Bombadil set out to collect them together again, he called each of them by a name that their Hobbit owners had not heard before. One of those names was 'Wise-nose'. With the other ponies, Wise-nose travelled as far as Bree, but before their masters could mount them again, the ponies were driven out of the stables to wander in the wilds of the Bree-land. Eventually the ponies found their way back to Tom Bombadil, who in turn sent them to back to Barliman Butterbur of the Prancing Pony inn, from whose stables in Bree they had fled. Notes 1 Most of the names chosen by Tom Bombadil for the Hobbits' ponies, like 'Swish-tail' or 'White-socks', come from distinctive characteristics of the ponies in question, but 'Wise-nose' is a little more difficult to parse. It seems to be connected to Tom's comments about the ponies, saying that (compared to the Hobbits) they had '...more sense in their noses. For they sniff danger ahead...' (The Fellowship of the Ring, I 8 Fog on the Barrow-downs) Here Tom is talking about the ponies in general, but we might assume from this that Wise-nose had even more of this 'nose-sense' than the others. See also... Ponies Indexes: Alphabetical: W Animals and Plants About this entry: Updated 1 November 2021 This entry is complete For acknowledgements and references, see the Disclaimer & Bibliography page. Original content © copyright Mark Fisher 2007, 2021. All rights reserved. For conditions of reuse, see the Site FAQ. Website services kindly sponsored by Axiom Discovery aptitude and skill testing.Personality is one part of understanding a candidate's suitability, but aptitudes and skills are also key.