A Herder is a person who watches over a herd of animals or runs animal husbandry.In Middle-Earth there were also the Horse-Herders of the Rohirrim and the Entish Treeherds.
Most mannish tribes raised Goats, Cattle, Sheep or Swine.
See:
Herders of renown[]
Examples for Herders in Middle-Earth[]
- Breeland Swineherd
- Dunnish or Dunlending Herdsmen
- Dwarven mountain-herdsman
- Easterling Wain-Nomads
- eriadorian shepherds
- Haradrim Desert-Nomads (Sandmen and Urdwan)
- Hobbit Goat-Tender of Tookland
- Husbandsmen of Lamedon and Anfalas
- Logath Herdsman
- Númenórean Sheep-Lord
- Orcish Graugai
- Rohir Herders of East-Emnet
- Rustler or Cattle-Raider from Saerlann
- Small Breeder
- Treeherds of the Ents
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