drúadan

proper name. Wose, (lit.) Wild-man

The full Sindarin word for “Wose”, a compound of Drû “Wose” and Adan “Man” (PM/324, UT/385), also translated as “Wild Man” (PE17/99, WR/352).

Conceptual Development: In Lord of the Rings drafts from the 1940s, the name N. Druadan appeared with a short u (WR/352). It also had a short u in Tolkien’s Words, Phrases and Passages from the Lord of the Rings from the late 1950s or early 1960s (PE17/99), but had a long ú in later writings.

Cognates

• Q. Rúatan “Wose, (lit.) Wose-man” ✧ UT/385; UTI/Rú
• Bs. Oghor-hai “Wose-folk” ✧ UTI/Oghor-hai

Element in

• S. Tawar-in-Drúedain “Drúadan Forest” ✧ UT/319

Elements

Word	Gloss
Drû	“Wose”
Adan	“Man (as a species)”

Variations

• druadan ✧ PE17/099

Druadan

noun. wose

n. wose, wild man.

drúath

noun. the people of the Drû, the Woses

drû

proper name. Wose

A Sindarin word for “Wose”, a loan word from the Wose’s name for themselves: Drughu (UT/385).

Conceptual Development: In his Words, Phrases and Passages from the Lord of the Rings from the late 1950s or early 1960s, Tolkien considered making this word a native Sindarin adjective “savage, wild” derived from the root √DROB, a variant of √SROB from which rhaw “wild” was derived (PE17/99). These roots would produce the Q. cognate (h)róva instead of better established Q. (h)ráva “wild”, so I personally prefer the later derivation of Drû as a loan word from Wos. Drughu.

Cognates

• Q. hráva “wild, savage, wild, savage, [ᴹQ.] untamed” ✧ PE17/099
• Q. Rú “Wose” ✧ UT/385; UTI/Drúath; UTI/Rú

Derivations

• Wos. Drughu “Wose”
• √DROB “*wild” ✧ PE17/099

Element in

• S. Drúadan “Wose, (lit.) Wild-man” ✧ PE17/099; UT/385; UTI/Drúedain
• S. Drúnos “a family of the Drû-folk” ✧ UT/385
• S. Drúwaith “the wilderness of the Drû-folk” ✧ UT/385

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
√D)ROB > drû	[drōb] > [drōv] > [drūv] > [drū]	✧ PE17/099

Variations

• drû ✧ PE17/099

Drúedain

Drúedain

The name means "Drû-man". The element Drû is an adaptation of Drughu, which is how that race calls themselves in their language. As the Elves came to know the Drû better, and to recognise their bitter enmity to the Orcs, they acquired the element Edain.

rhavan

wild man

(non-Edain human) rhavan (?i thravan or ?i ravan the lenition product of rh is uncertain), pl. rhevain (?idh revain) (WJ:219). The following terms apparently apply to ”men” of any speaking race:

rhavan

wild man

(non-Edain human) rhavan (?i thravan or ?i ravan the lenition product of rh is uncertain), pl. rhevain (?idh revain) (WJ:219). Also (of a Drúadan) drû (i dhrû), pl. drúin (in drúin), coll. pl. drúath (UT:385). Also compounded as Drúadan (i Dhrúadan), pl. Drúedain (in Drúedain). Cf. also Û-

rhavan

wild man

(?i thravan or ?i ravan – the lenition product of rh is uncertain), pl. rhevain (?idh revain) (WJ:219). Also (of a Drúadan) drû (i dhrû), pl. drúin (in drúin), coll. pl. drúath (UT:385). Also compounded as Drúadan (i Dhrúadan), pl. Drúedain (in Drúedain). Cf. also