Kine of Araw

Kine of Araw was a species of oxen that lived in the fields of Rhûn near the Sea of Rhûn. These oxen were hardier and wilder than any other in Middle-earth.

The Kine were famous as the quarry of Vorondil the Hunter, ancestor of the Ruling Stewards of Gondor. It was he who cut a horn from one of these beasts and from it fashioned a hunting-horn; the Great Horn, which came to be carried by the eldest son of the Ruling Steward from Vorondil's time onward. The last heir to bear the Great Horn was Boromir, who saw it broken in two in his battle with Orcs beneath Amon Hen.