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I was looking over Unfinished Tales for a discussion on the AiMe forums, especially Tolkien's essay "The Drúedain" and the citations found within. I came to realize that the Wild Men of Enedwaith mentioned in the Rivendell sourcebook (see page 65)--including the huntress Kyna--ought to be Drúedain (like the Woses of the Druadan Forest). Of course I'm sure that was not intended by Francesco. Perhaps he should rethink it; or are there not enough references within the LotR Appendices to support that interpretation?

I suppose there will be some mention of the Woses in the eventual Gondor sourcebook, though probably not as a Heroic Culture. Might there also be a nod to the Drúedain of the Cape of Andrast and Enedwaith?

In case anyone is interested, I drafted an Optional Heroic Culture for AiMe: the Woses of the Druadan Forest.

This is the introduction for The Drúedain found in The UT:

Towards the end of his life my father revealed a good deal more about the Wild Men of the Drúadan Forest in
Anórien and the statues of the Púkel-men on the road up to Dunharrow. The account given here, telling of the Drúedain in Beleriand in the First Age, and containing the story of "The Faithful Stone," is drawn from a long, discursive, and unfinished essay concerned primarily with the interrelations of the languages of Middle-earth. As will be seen, the Drúedain were to be drawn back into the history of the earlier Ages; but of this there is necessarily no trace in the published Silmarillion.

So, if it's a story set in the First Age, it's a more than posible that the Drúedain were extinct in Enedwaith by the end of the Third Age and replaced by another folk.

Arthadan wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 10, 2017 10:12 pm

This is the introduction for The Drúedain found in The UT:

Towards the end of his life my father revealed a good deal more about the Wild Men of the Drúadan Forest in
Anórien and the statues of the Púkel-men on the road up to Dunharrow. The account given here, telling of the Drúedain in Beleriand in the First Age, and containing the story of "The Faithful Stone," is drawn from a long, discursive, and unfinished essay concerned primarily with the interrelations of the languages of Middle-earth. As will be seen, the Drúedain were to be drawn back into the history of the earlier Ages; but of this there is necessarily no trace in the published Silmarillion.

So, if it's a story set in the First Age, it's a more than posible that the Drúedain were extinct in Enedwaith by the end of the Third Age and replaced by another folk.

You missed in C. Tolkien's notes where the Drúedain of the Cape of Andrast and the Wild Men of Enedwaith were specifically discussed in the context of the Second Age and the War of the Ring in the Third Age. I refer you to this post in the AiMe forum.