Jun 7, 2026 · 1 hr 41 min · 23 segments
The Folk of Haleth retained many practices that seemed strange to the Eldar and the other Atani; Alan retains a few strange practices and Don wants nothing to do with them. Join The Man of the West…
Don MarshallHostBut before we get to today's chapter discussion, it's time for fan favorite Philology Fair.
Now, they call themselves the Drugh, but we know them by some other names, including the Wild Men.
In The Lord of the Rings, though, our introduction to them is a bit different, and in fact, they're never called the Druedain in that book.
After Elfhelm trips over him, mistaking him for a tree root, the marshal explains, "You hear the Woses, the wild men of the woods."
In The Nomenclature, Tolkien explains that this word, quote, "Represents, modernized, the Rohan word for Old Men of the Woods.
The supposed genuine Rohan word was Wasa, plural Wasan, which if it had survived into modern English, would be Woses.
It would have been better to call the Wild Men Woodwoses, for that actually occurs in old English wudawasa, glossing faunus, satyrs, savage men, evil creatures." And that's Tolkien's explanation in The Nomenclature.
He goes on to say that this word wudawasa became Woodoses, which he says, quote, "Was often corrupted to Woodhouses, and survives in heraldry, since the Woodhouse equals a wild hairy man clad in leaves, common as a supporter to arms." Now we know what your coat of arms needs to include.
But before we get to today's chapter discussion, it's time for fan favorite Philology Fair.
Now, they call themselves the Drugh, but we know them by some other names, including the Wild Men.
In The Lord of the Rings, though, our introduction to them is a bit different, and in fact, they're never called the Druedain in that book.
After Elfhelm trips over him, mistaking him for a tree root, the marshal explains, "You hear the Woses, the wild men of the woods."
In The Nomenclature, Tolkien explains that this word, quote, "Represents, modernized, the Rohan word for Old Men of the Woods.
The supposed genuine Rohan word was Wasa, plural Wasan, which if it had survived into modern English, would be Woses.
It would have been better to call the Wild Men Woodwoses, for that actually occurs in old English wudawasa, glossing faunus, satyrs, savage men, evil creatures." And that's Tolkien's explanation in The Nomenclature.
He goes on to say that this word wudawasa became Woodoses, which he says, quote, "Was often corrupted to Woodhouses, and survives in heraldry, since the Woodhouse equals a wild hairy man clad in leaves, common as a supporter to arms." Now we know what your coat of arms needs to include.
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