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Det här är Drúedain 1 , även kallat Woses eller Wild Men.

'Is the enemy coming then?' asked Merry anxiously. 'Are those their drums? I began to think I was imagining them, as no one else seemed to take any notice of them.'

'Nay, nay,' said Elfhelm, 'the enemy is on the road not in the hills. You hear the Woses, the Wild Men of the Woods: thus they talk together from afar. They still haunt Drúadan Forest, it is said. Remnants of an older time they be, living few and secretly, wild and wary as the beasts.

Return of the King Book V Chapter 5: "The Ride of the Rohirrim"

Théoden, inte Aragorn 2 , inledningsvis gör en överenskommelse med dem (genom deras ledare, Ghân-Buri-Ghân) för att leda dem genom Drúadanskogen för att nå Pelennor:

'I am great headman, Ghân-buri-Ghân. I count many things: stars in sky, leaves on trees, men in the dark. You have a score of scores counted ten times and five. They have more. Big fight, and who will win? And many more walk round walls of Stone-houses.'

'Alas! he speaks all too shrewdly,' said Théoden. 'And our scouts say that they have cast trenches and stakes across the road. We cannot sweep them away in sudden onset.'

'And yet we need great haste,' said Éomer. 'Mundburg is on fire!'

'Let Ghân-buri-Ghân finish!' said the Wild Man. 'More than one road he knows. He will lead you by road where no pits are, no gorgûn walk, only Wild Men and beasts. Many paths were made when Stonehouse-folk were stronger. They carved hills as hunters carve beast-flesh. Wild Men think they ate stone for food. They went through Drúadan to Rimmon with great wains. They go no longer. Road is forgotten, but not by Wild Men. Over hill and behind hill it lies still under grass and tree, there behind Rimmon and down to Dîn, and back at the end to Horse-men's road. Wild Men will show you that road. Then you will kill gorgûn and drive away bad dark with bright iron, and Wild Men can go back to sleep in the wild woods.'

Éomer and the king spoke together in their own tongue. At length Théoden turned to the Wild Man. 'We will receive your offer,' he said. 'For though we leave a host of foes behind, what matter? If the Stone-city falls, then we shall have no returning. If it is saved, then the orc-host itself will be cut off. If you are faithful, Ghân-buri-Ghân, then we will give you rich reward, and you shall have the friendship of the Mark for ever.'

Return of the King Book V Chapter 5: "The Ride of the Rohirrim"

I slutet av boken förklarar Aragorn att skogen kommer att vara deras land för alltid:

Without haste and at peace they passed into Anórien, and they came to the Grey Wood under Amon Din; and there they heard a sound as of drums beating in the hills, though no living thing could be seen. Then Aragorn let the trumpets be blown; and heralds cried:

'Behold the King Elessar is come! The Forest of Drúadan he gives to Ghân-buri-ghân and to his folk, to be their own for ever; and hereafter let no man enter it without their leave!'

Then the drums rolled loudly, and were silent.

Return of the King Book VI Chapter 6: "Many Partings"

Vad som hände med dem i den fjärde åldern och bortom är tyvärr okänt.

P-ordet "som nämns av frågan" Púkel-män "hänvisar uttryckligen till statyerna vid Dunharrow. Även om de ursprungligen huggades av Drúedain-folket, gavs namnet av Rohirrim, som inte kände till anslutningen:

[I]n Rohan the identity of the statues of Dunharrow called "Púkel-men" with the "Wild Men" of the Drúadan Forest was not recognized

Unfinished Tales Part Four Chapter I: "The Drúedain"

1 Namnet Drúedain ges i Oavslutade Tales , i uppsatsen med det namnet

2 Aragorn är inte på denna resa, efter att ha lämnat Rohirrim vid Dunharrow för att gå igenom de döds vägarna

Du tänker på Drúedain , även känd som Púkel-männen bland de Rohirrim. De grundades på de mytologiska woodwoses , och kallas också som woses in-universe.

Det är inte mycket känt om vad som hände med dem efter Ringets krig, men de lämnades på egen hand efter order av kung Aragorn Elessar.

After the War of the Ring, King Elessar granted the Drúadan Forest to be theirs forever, forbidding anyone to enter without their permission. They never showed their faces again, nor was any alliance or trading system struck up between them and Gondor in the Fourth Age. It is clear that they never mingled with the Free Peoples, content to live their reclusive mysterious life until they faded away into the mists of history and legend.
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