Gwaihir
February 12th,2004, 12:47 PM
I'm still wondering whether I should post this in the LotR forum or in Tolkien's Other Works, because it's about both of them...
I was reading RotK today, just refreshing my memory before watching the movie, and read the part where the Rohirrim ride through Dunharrow. There they see the Pukel-men, ancient stone images of men.
Then when Theoden is talking to Ghan-buri-Ghan of the Woses, a breed of Wild Men who live in Druedan Forest, Merry sees similarity between the Woses and Pukel-Men.
This reminded me of a chapter in the Unfinished Tales: "the Druedain". The Druedain were short, squat, and wild kind of men who lived in the first age and hated orcs. They made sitting stone figures that they called watch-stones.
I think that Tolkien used the concept of Druedain for the Woses of LotR? Even the forest in which the Woses live sounds like "Druedain"! What do you think?
I was reading RotK today, just refreshing my memory before watching the movie, and read the part where the Rohirrim ride through Dunharrow. There they see the Pukel-men, ancient stone images of men.
Then when Theoden is talking to Ghan-buri-Ghan of the Woses, a breed of Wild Men who live in Druedan Forest, Merry sees similarity between the Woses and Pukel-Men.
This reminded me of a chapter in the Unfinished Tales: "the Druedain". The Druedain were short, squat, and wild kind of men who lived in the first age and hated orcs. They made sitting stone figures that they called watch-stones.
I think that Tolkien used the concept of Druedain for the Woses of LotR? Even the forest in which the Woses live sounds like "Druedain"! What do you think?