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The word used for them by the [[Rohirrim]] during the [[Third Age]] was represented by Tolkien as ''Púkel-men''.<ref name="The Muster of Rohan" group=T>''[[The Return of the King]]'', Book 5, ch. 3, "The Muster of Rohan".</ref><ref group=T>''Unfinished Tales'', "The Drúedain", p. 384.</ref> This includes the [[Old English]] word ''[[wikt:pucel|pūcel]]'' "goblin, troll", which survives in [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]]'s [[Puck (A Midsummer Night's Dream)|Puck]] in ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'', and in two forms in [[Rudyard Kipling|Kipling]]'s ''[[Puck of Pook's Hill]]'').<ref name="Clark Hall Puck">{{cite book |last1=Hall |first1=J. R. Clark |title=A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary |date=2002 |publisher=University of Toronto Press |isbn=978-0802065483 |page=[https://archive.org/details/conciseanglosaxo00hall/page/275 275] |edition=4th |url=https://archive.org/details/conciseanglosaxo00hall/page/275}}</ref>
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>''[[The Return of the King]]'', Book 5, ch. 5, "The Ride of the Rohirrim".</ref> The Tolkien critic [[Tom Shippey]] notes that Tolkien's office when he was at [[Leeds University]] (and that Shippey inherited) was near [[Woodhouse Moor]], which as "would not have escaped Tolkien" was a modern mis-spelling of Wood-Wose, Old English ''wudu-wāsa''; Clark Hall renders this as "[[faun]], [[satyr]]".<ref>{{cite book |last=Shippey |first=Tom |authorlink=Tom Shippey |title=The Road to Middle-Earth |date=2005 |edition=Third |origyear=1982 |publisher=HarperCollins |isbn=978-0261102750 |pp=74, 149}}</ref><ref name="Clark Hall Wood-Wose">{{cite book |last1=Hall |first1=J. R. Clark |title=A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary |date=2002 |publisher=University of Toronto Press |isbn=978-0802065483 |page=[https://archive.org/details/conciseanglosaxo00hall/page/424 424] |edition=4th |url=https://archive.org/details/conciseanglosaxo00hall/page/424 }}</ref>
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