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Fictional race created by Tolkien

The Drúedain are a fictional race of Men, living in the Drúadan Forest, in the Middle earth legendarium created by J. R. R. Tolkien. They were counted among the Edain who made their way into Beleriand in the First Age, and were friendly to the Elves. In The Lord of the Rings, they assist the Riders of Rohan to avoid ambush on the way to the Battle of the Pelennor Fields. The Drúedain are based on the mythological woodwoses, the wild men of the woods of Britain and Europe; the Riders of Rohan indeed call them woses. Tolkien also used the form Drûg, with a regular English plural Drûgs. The word used for the Drúedain by the Rohirrim during the Third Age is represented by Tolkien as Púkel men. Ryan adds that the word survives in English placenames such as Puckshot in Surrey, Pock Field in Cumberland, Puxton, Puckeridge, Pokesdown, Pockford, Pucknall, and perhaps Pucklechurch. Ryan suggests that the Púkel men may derive from a combination of "Proto Celts, Druid figures, or roadside fertility deities". Ryan notes Christopher Tolkien's statement that the name Púkel men is "also used as a general equivalent to Drúedain". quote|You hear the Woses, the Wild Men of the Woods: thus they talk together from afar. They still haunt Druadan Forest, it is said. Remnants of an older time they be, living few and secretly, wild and wary as the beasts.

The Drúedain somewhat resemble Dwarves in stature and endurance; they are stumpy, clumsy limbed with short, thick legs, and fat, "gnarled" arms, broad chests, fat bellies, and heavy buttocks. According to the Elves and other Men, they had "unlovely faces": wide, flat, and expressionless with deep set black eyes that glowed red when angered. They had "horny" brows, flat noses, wide mouths, and sparse, lank hair. They had no hair lower than the eyebrows, except for a few men who had a tail of black hair on the chin. They were short lived and had a deep hatred of Orcs. Many of them settled in the White Mountains, where they were the first people. Some of the Drúedain continued north west, settling in Beleriand. There 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. Aghan the Drûg is a protagonist in "The Faithful Stone", a short story set in Beleriand in the First Age. [[File:Battle of the Pelennor Fields. svg|thumb|upright=1.25|The Drúedain enabled the Rohirrim to reach the Battle of the Pelennor Fields (blue arrow 3) by way of their forest (off map), avoiding the Orcs blocking the road (red arrow 1b). 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. 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 "woodcrafty beyond compare" He is seen as a good man with a kind of primitive nobility, a classic example of the noble savage. He is by no means stupid, and he "refuses to be patronized." Susan Pesznecker describes the "Wodwoses", including Tolkien's, as a variant of the medieval Green man, which she calls "a Pagan symbol of fertility and rebirth". The medievalist and Tolkien scholar Verlyn Flieger comments that the Wild Man "is infantile". Ghân Buri Ghân talks "like a Hollywood Tarzan" using short broken phrases like "Wild Men live here before Stone houses" and "kill orc folk". She compares him with the "Wild Hobbit" and in the Lord of the Rings board game. The image for the latter was designed by the Tolkien illustrator and concept designer John Howe.