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Location
Originally widespread, with populations in Beleriand and Númenor; by the end of the Third Age, they were apparently restricted to the Drúadan Forest and Drúwaith Iaur
Race
Pronunciation
droo
Meaning
An adaptation of Drughu, the name of this people for themselves, of unknown meaning1
Other names
Drû-folk, Drúath, Drúedain, Drughu, Drûg-folk, Drûgs, Drúin, Oghor-hai, Púkel-men, Rógin, Rú, Rúatani, Wild Men of the Woods, Woses
Note
Drû is a singular term, referring to an individual of this people; the simple plural was Drúin, while the collective plural (for all Drú-folk) was Drúath
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DrûThe people that became known as the DrúedainThe race of Men known as Woses or Wild Men of the Woods had, in their own language, a name for their own kind: Drughu. When the Elves first encountered these people, they fitted the name 'Drughu' to their own sound-systems, and in the Sindarin language the name translated as Drû. As the Elves came to know these people better, and to recognise their bitter enmity to Morgoth and his creatures, so their name was changed. Drû acquired the ending edain, a word reserved for the Elves' principal allies among Men during the First Age. So the race of Woses became known in Sindarin as Drúedain. That term survived, for example, in the name 'Drúadan Forest', where Ghân-buri-Ghân and his people dwelt to the north of Minas Tirith. Notes
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