Éothéod
the Horse-people of the North; the ancestors of the Rohirrim
Name and Place
The Éothéod (“the Horse-people”) were a folk of the Northmen who dwelt in the far North beside the vales of the Great River and the Ered Mithrin, horsemen and riders of the plains. Their lords made war on the dragons of the mountains — it was a lord of the Éothéod, Fram, who slew Scatha the Worm and took the dragon-hoard — and the people waxed in the lands that the Shadow had emptied.
The Oath of Eorl
As the dark tidings grew in the south, the Éothéod under their lord Eorl the Young rode to the aid of Gondor. In reward, and by the ancient oath with Cirion of Gondor, the land that had been the province of Calenardhon was granted to their lords — and in that land the Éothéod became the people of Rohan, the Horselords of the Mark, in whose chronicle the names of Fram and Eorl are held in honour.
Fram and the Dragon
The most famous of their earlier lords was Fram, who slew the great worm Scatha and took its hoard; when the Dwarves demanded the treasure, he sent them, it is said, the teeth of the Worm upon a chain, with the taunt that they were its jewels — for which the Dwarves slew him, and the feud of the dragon-hoard was long remembered.