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DredainIn J. R. R. Tolkien's world of Middle-earth, the Dredain, also known as Drg, Woses, Wild Men of the Woods and Pkel-men, were a strange race of Men which was counted amongst the Edain. The Drg lived among the Second House of Men, the Haladin, in the First Age in the forest of Brethil. They were an alien folk to the other Men: a bit like Dwarves in stature and endurance, stumpy, clumsy-limbed (with short, thick legs, and fat, "gnarled" arms), had broad chests, fat bellies, and heavy buttocks. According to the Elves and other Men, they had "unlovely faces": wide, flat, and expressionless with deep-set black eyes that glowed red when angered. They had "horny" brows, flat noses, wide mouths, and sparse, lanky hair. They had no hair lower than the eyebrows, except for a few men who had a tail of black hair on the chin. Although a number of the Dredain were present in Nmenor they had left or died out before the Akallabth, as had the Pkel-men of Dunharrow. At the end of the Third Age the Drg still lived in the Dradan Forest of the White Mountains, and at the long cape of Andrast west of Gondor. The region north of Andrast was still known as Drwaith Iaur, or "Old Drg land". The Woses of Ghn-buri-Ghn held off Orcs with poisoned arrows and were vital in securing the aid of the Rohirrim in the Battle of the Pelennor Fields. King Elessar granted the Dradan Forest "forever" to them in the Fourth Age. External links
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