Drúedain: Difference between revisions

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 skin and 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 |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>

 

 

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