See this interview for the correction, and thanks to Trilby for pointing it out. Although it has been reported (including here on this page) that Uraeus lived on Viggo’s ranch in Idaho, in fact he continued to live in New Zealand at Jane Abbott’s farm with Kenny, the horse who played Hasufel. Viggo became attached to Uraeus, and after the movies were finished, he bought him. Although actor Viggo Mortensen, who played Aragorn, had ridden since childhood, he took riding lessons to learn to properly handle the highly-trained stallion. I told them if they could get him on their truck, they could try him, but that he absolutely won’t go on a trailer and he’s only been on my truck in the past ten years.” Uraeus went on the truck and worked out well despite having never been ridden bareback before. “They rang me and said they wanted a stallion. “It all happened in five minutes,” says Lockie. Uraeus’ cushy stud career was interrupted by the filming of The Lord of the Rings in his home country of New Zealand. (See photo of Uraeus in dressage competition, left.) Uraeus was owned and trained by top international trainer Lockie Richards, and competed successfully in FEI-level dressage before retiring to sire sport horses. The horse who played Brego in The Two Towers and The Return of the King is a Dutch Warmblood stallion named Uraeus. Video Clips of Brego in The Lord of the Rings But yes I do know this is a movie, and I really did enjoy this scene. The dissonance lies only in the idea that any decent horseman would turn a horse loose on the plains wearing a halter and lead rope, which could easily get hung up in a tree or bush and cause the animal grave injury. If I were to lie in the grass myself he would be almost certain to nuzzle my face the way that Brego did with Aragorn lying on the beach. He would then stand up and we would trot off, sans bridle and saddle. When I was a child I would go out to the pasture where my pony was lying, and give him carrots and climb on his back. (There is a hint that perhaps Arwen telepathically contacted Brego to send him on this mission.) He lies down on the beach next to Aragorn so he can climb onto Brego’s back, and carries him the rest of the way to Helm’s Deep.Īs a one-time horse-owner, this later scene has a lot of resonance for me, and some dissonance as well. Brego, evidently wandering the Mark wearing a halter and rope, comes to the wounded Aragorn. Later, on the march to Helm’s Deep, Aragorn is injured fighting Orcs on wargs, falls off a cliff into a river, and is carried downstream. See for their translation of Aragorn’s words to Brego. When Aragorn sees Brego in distress in the stables at Edoras, he speaks to him in Rohirric, calming him, and then says to Éowyn, “Turn this fellow free.
After Théodred’s death, Brego became wild and unmanageable. In the exended DVD version of the Two Towers film, but not in the books, Brego is the name of a dark bay horse that belonged to Theoden’s son Théodred. I’ve posted several video clips showing the scenes described here, see links at the bottom of this page. Goodness knows he had enough material! But it was enjoyable for those of us who think that most outdoor scenes can be improved with the addition of a horse. I’m not sure why Peter Jackson decided he needed to add a side story about a horse. In fact, the entire side story described below, about Aragorn’s injury and presumed death while fighting warg-mounted Orcs on the way to Helm’s Deep, is a creation of the screenwriters.
(Brego was probably named for Brego the Builder, a great king of Rohan.)
It’s actually a little confusing to talk about “Brego in Lord of the Rings,” since Brego the horse is a character created purely for the films.
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