"Both the drivers lashed them," Nirith explained, "but the oxen refused to go near the trace! It seemed they would overpower the drivers and run away dragging their yokes, and the trace, and all the harness, and maybe a couple of men, and so they let them go, the ox-drivers and their team, and they got some soldiers from the garrison to pull the cart!"
~~ "JTPYO - King of the Land of the Dead [3] a devil's work (excerpt: the streghi)