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The essay discusses ''eaueres'', a word found in the 1922 Early English Text Society Edition of ''[[Wikipedia:Katherine Group|Hali Meiðhad]]''. Tolkien suggests that rather than meaning boar, the word should be translated as draught horse.<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=http://www.tolkienbooks.net/php/details.php?reference=13210|articlename=Review of English Studies. July 1925|dated=|website=TB|accessed=14 December 2013}}</ref>
The essay discusses ''eaueres'', a word found in the 1922 Early English Text Society Edition of ''[[Wikipedia:Katherine Group|Hali Meiðhad]]''. Tolkien suggests that rather than meaning boar, the word should be translated as draught horse.<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=http://www.tolkienbooks.net/php/details.php?reference=13210|articlename=Review of English Studies. July 1925|dated=|website=TB|accessed=14 December 2013}}</ref>


The Devil's Coach-Horses was first published in [[The Review of English Studies'' (Vol. 1  No. 3)|''The Review of English Studies'', Vol. 1  No. 3]] (July 1925), and was reprinted in ''[[The Review of English Studies (Vol. 1)]]'' (1969). The essay also appeared separately as a [[The Devil's Coach-Horses (booklet)|six-page pamphlet]].<ref>[[Wayne G. Hammond]], [[Douglas A. Anderson]], ''[[J.R.R. Tolkien: A Descriptive Bibliography]]''</ref><ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=http://www.tolkienbooks.net/php/details.php?reference=13230|articlename=The Devil's Coach-Horses. 1925. Reprint.|dated=|website=TB|accessed=14 December 2013}}</ref>
The Devil's Coach-Horses was first published in [[The Review of English Studies'' (Vol. 1  No. 3)|''The Review of English Studies'', Vol. 1  No. 3]] (July 1925), and was reprinted in [[The Review of English Studies (Vol. 1)|''The Review of English Studies'', Vol. 1]] (1969). The essay also appeared separately as a [[The Devil's Coach-Horses (booklet)|six-page pamphlet]].<ref>[[Wayne G. Hammond]], [[Douglas A. Anderson]], ''[[J.R.R. Tolkien: A Descriptive Bibliography]]''</ref><ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=http://www.tolkienbooks.net/php/details.php?reference=13230|articlename=The Devil's Coach-Horses. 1925. Reprint.|dated=|website=TB|accessed=14 December 2013}}</ref>


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The Devil's Coach-Horses is a 1925 essay by J.R.R. Tolkien.

The essay discusses eaueres, a word found in the 1922 Early English Text Society Edition of Hali Meiðhad. Tolkien suggests that rather than meaning boar, the word should be translated as draught horse.[1]

The Devil's Coach-Horses was first published in The Review of English Studies, Vol. 1 No. 3 (July 1925), and was reprinted in The Review of English Studies, Vol. 1 (1969). The essay also appeared separately as a six-page pamphlet.[2][3]

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