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{{Short description|Fictional race created by Tolkien}}
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== Names and etymology ==
{{further|Woodwose}}
[[File:The Fight in the Forest (Hans Burgkmair d. Ä.).jpg|thumb|A fight with a [[woodwose]]:<br/>''The Fight in the Forest''<br/>by [[Hans Burgkmair]], c. 1500]]
Within Tolkien's fiction, the Drúedain call themselves ''Drughu''. When the Drúedain settled in [[Beleriand]], the [[Sindar]]in Elves adapted this to ''Drû'' (plurals ''Drúin'', ''Drúath'') and later added the suffix ''-adan'' "man", resulting in the usual [[Sindarin]] form ''Drúadan'' (plural ''Drúedain'').<ref name="UT Druedain" group=T>{{harvnb|Tolkien|1980}}, "The Drúedain"</ref> Tolkien also used the form ''Drûg'', with a regular English plural ''Drûgs''.<ref name="UT Druedain" group=T/> ''Drughu'' became ''Rú'' in [[Quenya]], with the later suffixed form ''Rúatan'' (plural ''Rúatani'').<ref name="UT Druedain" group=T/> The [[Orc (Middle-earth)|Orcs]] called the Drúedain ''Oghor-hai''.<ref name="UT Druedain" group=T/> John S. Ryan, writing in ''[[Mallorn]]'', notes that Tolkien also uses the forms "Drúadan Forest" (the home of the Woses) and "Drúwaith-laur" (the Dru-folk's ancient wilderness).<ref name="Ryan 1983">{{cite journal |last1=Ryan |first1=John S. |title=The Pukel-men before Dunharrow |journal=Mallorn |date=September 1983 |url=https://journals.tolkiensociety.org/mallorn/issue/download/48/49}}</ref>
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In [[Westron]], the Common Tongue of western Middle-earth, the Drúedain were called the ''Wild Men'', or the ''[Wood-][[Wose]]s'':<ref name="The Ride of the Rohirrim" group=T>{{harvnb|Tolkien|1955}}, Book 5, ch. 5, "The Ride of the Rohirrim"</ref>
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Aghan the Drûg is a protagonist in "The Faithful Stone", a short story set in [[Beleriand]] in the [[First Age]].
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Although a number of the Drúedain came with the Edain to [[Númenor]], they had left or died out before the [[Akallabêth]], as had the Púkel-men of [[Dunharrow]]. At the end of the [[Third Age]] the Drûgs still lived in 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".
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Ghân-buri-Ghân is perceived as a "leftover," a prehistoric type of human surviving in the modern world. Like the rest of his people, Ghân has a flat face, dark eyes, and wears only a grass skirt.<ref name="The Ride of the Rohirrim" group=T/><ref name="Flieger 2003"/><ref name="Smith 2002">{{cite book |last=Smith |first=Mark Eddy |title=Tolkien's Ordinary Virtues |url=https://archive.org/details/tolkiensordinary00smit |url-access=registration |quote=Ghan-Buri-Ghan |year=2002 |publisher=Intervarsity Press |isbn=0-8308-2312-3 |page=[https://archive.org/details/tolkiensordinary00smit/page/108 108]}}</ref> He is seen as a good man with a kind of primitive nobility, a classic example of the [[noble savage]].<ref name="Rutledge 2004">{{cite book |last=Rutledge |first=Fleming |author-link=Fleming Rutledge |title=The Battle for Middle-earth: Tolkien's Divine Design in The Lord of the Rings|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FRiViwMylSUC&pg=PA286 |year=2004 |publisher=[[William B. Eerdmans Publishing]] |isbn=978-0-8028-2497-4 |page=286}}</ref> He is by no means stupid, and he "refuses to be patronized."<ref name="Stanton 2002">{{cite book |last=Stanton |first=Michael N. |title=Hobbits, Elves, and Wizards: Exploring the Wonders and Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wo9asc1i09YC&pg=PA79 |year=2002 |publisher=[[Palgrave Macmillan]] |isbn=978-1-4039-6025-2 |page=79}}</ref> 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".<ref name="Pesznecker 2007">{{cite book |last=Pesznecker |first=Susan |title=Gargoyles: From the Archives of the Grey School of Wizardry |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Sy1xDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT123 |year=2007 |publisher=Red Wheel Weiser |isbn=978-1-60163-978-3 |page=123}}</ref>
The [[medievalist]] and Tolkien scholar [[Verlyn Flieger]] comments that the Wild Man "is infantile". Ghân-Buri-Ghân talks "like a [[Cinema of the United States|Hollywood]] [[Tarzan]]" using short broken phrases like "Wild Men live here before Stone-houses" and "kill orc-folk".<ref name="Flieger 2003">{{cite book |last=Flieger |first=Verlyn |author-link=Verlyn Flieger |
== Adaptations ==
Ghân-buri-Ghân is featured in the promotional expansion card set of ''[[The Lord of the Rings Trading Card Game]]''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tradecardsonline.com/im/selectCard/series_id/88/goal/ |title=List of the 139 cards in the expansion Promotional Cards |work=Trade Cards Online |access-date=18 September 2012}}</ref> and in the [[Lord of the Rings (board game)|''Lord of the Rings'']] board game. The image for the latter was designed by the [[Tolkien illustrator]] and
==References==
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