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This must be my most favorite picture on DeviantArt!
Expression is absolutely amazing! And the details are to take on!
Incredibly good job!
Greetings from a Norwegian Viking!
Thanks for your very kind words!
I like the landscape very much, and the foggy sky. I'm a bit surprised that the last horse would stand still like that, but perhaps it only looks that way? It's difficult to see the legs at that size.
It is not all that un-realistic to have a population of dominantly grey horses, at least in look. They would originally have all colours, but the gene for greying is dominant. The Lippizan horses are the best RL example: while there will be some individuals that do not grey early, those are very, very few.
What most people think of as 'white' horses, are greys: horses with dark skin who originally had other colours as foals, but began greying very young (the same process that give us grey hair with age), until they become very white. They can be distinguished from the rarer true whites by looking at the colour of the skin around the eyes and muzzle: greys will have dark skin, whites pink.
The Rohirrim have black horses too, though, so Day is not quite right (on many occasions, I fear). Éomer tells the Three Hunters that the orcs from Mordor who raids their flocks, always take the black horses (and therefore they have few left). But predominantly greys, are both realistic, and fits Tolkien's descriptions well.
Yes, I'm both a Tolkien-nerd _and_ a horse-nerd...
I loved this picture (despite the tangent).
Glad you lie it. Indeed, the hornblowers horse is a bit static to my eyes as wel.