Arrows of the Queen, Book One of Heralds of Valdemar, by Mercedes Lackey.

We start off this episode with a discussion of the new Amazon Prime show The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, then dig into Arrows of the Queen, by Mercedes Lackey. 

NOTE: There is a technical glitch at the 1:09:53 mark, where about ten seconds of audio seems to have disappeared. We were discussing horses and Companions, and then it skips to what sounds like a non-sequiter about the character Alberich. Apologies for the inconvenience. The missing dialogue is an observation from me remarking upon the lack of "people hitting other people with swords" in this book, and Alberich, as the martial training master, is brought up as an exception. 

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