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[[File: Púkel-men-1.jpg|300px|Center|thumb|Púkel-men carving in the Drúadan Forest]]

=== Lore ===
: '''Drúedan''' refers to the race of men the [[Rohirrim]] call '''Woses''', Wild Men of the Woods and '''Púkel-men'''. They were a race of Men that survived only in [[Taur Drúadan]] (Drúadan Forest) by the [[Third Age]]. They were counted amongst the [[Edain]].

:* '''Drúadan''' (pl. [[Drúedain]]) is [[Sindarin]].
:* Drûg/Drughu: (singular and plural) is the name the Drúedain give to themselves in their own language and the name used for a race known to the [[Elves]] as the Drúedain.
:* Drúath: (plural) was an earlier Sindarin name for them in ancient times.
:* Róg/Rógin: (singular and plural) is the name that the Rohirrim have for them in their own language.
:* Rú/Rúatani: (singular and plural) is their name in [[Quenya]].
:* Wose/Woses: (singular and plural) was a word [[Tolkien]] took from an Old English word, which was meant to be a translation of the Rohhirric 'Róg'.
:* Oghor-hai: (singular and plural) is the name the [[Orcs]] gave to them. <ref>https://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Drúedain</ref>

: The Drûgs were the first to migrate from the site where [[Men]] awoke, in the east of [[Middle-earth]]. A band lived among the [[Second House of Men]], the [[Haladin]], in the [[First Age]] in the forest of [[Brethil]], whence the Elves came to know and love them. Although a number of the Drúedain came with the Edain to [[Númenor]], they had left or died out before the [[Akallabêth]] (the cataclysmic destruction of the island of Númenor), as had the [[Púkel-men]] of [[Dunharrow]]. At the end of the Third Age the Drûgs still lived in Taur Drúadan, the Drúadan Forest, of the [[White Mountains]], and on the long cape of [[Andrast]] west of [[Gondor]]. The region north of Andrast was still known as [[Drúwaith Iaur]], or "Old Drûg land".

: The term '''Púkel-men''' used by the Rohirrim was also applied to the fearsome statues constructed by the Drúedain to guard important places and homes; some evidently had the power to come to life. Because of their ugly appearance and frightening statues, the Drúedain were feared and loathed by other Men of the region; they were considered little better than Orcs, and there was much enmity between those peoples.

: Nevertheless, the Drúedain of [[Ghân-buri-Ghân]]'s clan came to the aid of the Rohirrim during the War of the Ring in the [[Battle of the Pelennor Fields]]. A large company of Orcs had been sent to the Drúadan Forest to waylay the host of [[Rohan]] as it made its way to the aid of Gondor. It was the Drúedain who held off the Orcs with poisoned arrows whilst they guided the Rohirrim through the forest by the long forgotten road of [[Stonewain Valley]]. Without their help the Rohirrim would not have arrived at the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, and [[Sauron]] would likely have triumphed. As a result, the Drúedain gained the respect of other Men.

: After the [[War of the Ring]], [[King Elessar]] granted the Drúadan Forest "forever" to them in the [[Fourth Age]], promising that no man would enter their forests without the leave of the Drúedain. <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drúedain</ref>

: In ancient times the White Mountains had been home to the Drúedain or Púkel-men, but during the later Second Age the Númenóreans began to colonise and exploit the coastal lands of Middle-earth, and the Drúedain retreated before the incomers. A few survived in the Drúadan Forest, but others removed to the mountains of Andrast and the coastlands northward of that peninsula. By the end of the Third Age, it was thought that this group of Púkel-men had become extinct, and so the region was given the name [[Drúwaith Iaur]], 'Old Púkel-land' (that is, the land where the Púkel-men formerly lived). During the War of the Ring, however, it was discovered that the Drúedain of Drúwaith Iaur had in fact survived, dwelling in caves in the mountains. <ref>https://www.glyphweb.com/arda/o/oldpukelland.html</ref>

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