An ancient branch of the race of Men,active in the wars against Morgoth in the First Age and granted a home with the Edain in N�menor during the Second Age.By the end of the Third Age,the Dr�edain had become a secretive and dwindling people: the 'woses' of the Dr�adan Forest were among the last of their kind in Middle-earth.
Drughu :
The strange and secretive relatives of Men that were sometimes called 'woses'.Drughu was their own name for their kind and the ultimate source of their Sindarin name,Dr�edain.
Dr�gs :
One of many names used for a race known to the Elves as Dr�edain or to later generations of Men as 'Woses'.The name Dr�gs was used in Brethil in the First Age,where a uniquely close relationship developed between these people and the Folk of Haleth,the Edain that inhabited that forest region.It comes ultimately from their own name for themselves,though the correct plural form in their own language would be Drughu.
D�nedain :
A term used in Middle-earth for the Men of N�menor and (especially) their descendants in Arnor and Gondor after the Downfall in II 3319.
Easterlings :
A general name for the races of Men from the unknown East of Middle-earth,who were a constant foe of the Free Peoples,from the treachery of Ulfang in the Nirnaeth Arnoediad of the First Age to their frequent attacks against Gondor in the Third Age.
Kings of Men :
A title given to the N�men�reans by the Men of Middle-earth when they returned there in the Second Age.
Men of Darkness :
Men of the east of Middle-earth who fell under the dominion of Morgoth in the First Age,among whose descendants were the Easterlings and the Dunlendings.
Men of Middle-Earth :
A general term for all Men apart from the N�men�reans.
Men of N�menor :
The N�men�reans,the descendants of the Edain of the First Age who were granted the land of N�menor.
Men of Old :
When Elendil and his sons came to Middle-earth in the last years of the Second Age,they brought with them the knowledge and power of the N�men�rean nation.They filled the landscape of Middle-earth with mighty cities,castles and towers.Their knowledge, though, was forgotten by later generations, who could only look on what remained of their works with wonder.
Men of the North :
Men whose settlements spread throughout the northern lands of Middle-earth in the Third Age,from the sources of Anduin to the valley of Dale and southward through Rhovanion.More commonly called 'North men' they were a broad mix of peoples,speaking many different but related tongues.It is from the languages of the Men of the North that the two greatest Wizards took their names:Saruman 'Man of Skill' and Gandalf 'Elf of the Wand'.In the western part of their range,in the upper of Vales of Anduin, they gave rise to the �oth�od,the ancestors of the Rohirrim of Rohan.
Men of the West :
A term used of the N�menoreans and, especially,their descendants who escaped to Middle-earth after the destruction of their home.'Men of the West' is a direct translation of the Elvish name for these people, D�nedain.
Men of Westernesse :
A general term for the Men of N�menor or their descendants and used especially in Third Age Middle-earth to refer to the D�nedain.
Mighty of the West :
A title used once,in the quotation given above,to refer to Tuor the son of Huor.Its exact meaning is ambiguous:it appears in a passage that discusses Tuor's relationship with his descendants,the N�men�reans and so we have treated it here as an epithet for that division of Mankind.It might conceivably,though,refer to the Valar,though it seems unlikely that such a comparison would be made of a mortal Man.
The Men of the north of Middle-earth and especially those that dwelt about the upper reaches of the Vales of Anduin,from whom the Rohirrim were descended.
N�men�reans :
The Men of N�menor,descendants of the Edain of the First Age,who were granted the island of Elenna as a dwelling place.They turned against the Valar and their island home was destroyed in the last years of the Second Age.
Oghor-Hai :
The name used by the Orcs to describe that race of Men otherwise known as the Dr�edain or Woses. They were believed by the Orcs to possess magical powers and they therefore feared the Oghor-hai greatly.
P�kel-men :
The ancient carved images,thought to be of Woses or Dr�edain,that lined the road to Dunharrow in the White Mountains.
Wild Men :
The Men of Darkness;Men of the East and South of Middle-earth,who had fallen under the yoke of Morgoth during the First Age and of whom many were allies of Sauron in the Second and Third Ages.
Wild Men of the Woods :
At the end of the Third Age,a remnant of the Dr�edain still lived beneath the feet of the White Mountains and in the lands westward.Theirs was a strange and ancient race of Men,with an unusual affinity with nature and unique powers.The Northmen who settled in Rohan,though,knew nothing of their ancestry and imagined them to be hardly more than beasts,at least until the time of the War of the Ring.For this reason the Rohirrim called them the Wild Men of the Woods.
Woses :
A name among the Rohirrim for the shy,secretive people known in Elvish as the Dr�edain.Though never populous,the end of the Third Age saw these people reduced to a few populations in the southern parts of Middle-earth,especially in the Dr�waith Iaur and Dr�adan Forest of Rohan,where the Rohirrim came into contact with them.In fact,the word 'wose' is a name from British folklore,referring to a hairy,troll-like being supposed to inhabit woods and forests.It represents Tolkien's translation of an actual word of the Rohirrim into ancient English;the Rohirrim themselves would not have called such a creature a 'wose' but a r�g.
