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This is a still ongoing project but I found it fitting to post what I've gotten already, so not much is known about the Drúedain, thus it is written from an Elven perspective, the third chapter will come, and maybe even more if I have more ideas, but the third chapter will take a longer time to make as it requires me to have some more work done first and tht may take some time. But, give criticism to what I've written enjoy, and correct me on lore-mistakes if made. And of course give more ideas!



#Author:Almë Palantír the Elven Historian

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#Title:Drúedain Behaviour Chapter Two

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#Types:rivendell,angel,gondor,lindon,eregion

Chapter two, drúedain equipment

Their weapons, although I already said were very sharp and clearly made by skilled crafters, have things of speciality to note, first one being that they often used poison, how they obtained that poison in still a question to me till this very day, although I presume they used some little animal unknown to me to poison their weapons. They also used bows, that were no match for the Elven bows, but still good ones, they predominantly used poisoned arrows on those, which frightened the orcs and other evil creatures (who thought they were evil forest spirits) whenever they happened to stumble onto some Drúedain.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Besides weapons the Drúedain also used armour, they use a sort of armour akin to pieces of wood tied to your body, it isn’t too effective but it does the job against the few enemies they ever meet.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Now, to craft all these things the Drúedain use flint tools like axes and weapon crafting equipment, they do not dig holes nor do they construct houses with stone so they don’t need pickaxes or shovels.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"> #Author:Almë Palantír the Elven Historian

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"> #Title:Drúedain Behaviour Chapter One

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"> #Types:rivendell,angel,gondor,lindon,eregion

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"> Introduction

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"> Mae l'ovannen mellon nîn, the book you're reading entails my encounters with the primitive, but civilised Drûg-folk, as they call themselves.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"> Chapter  one, the Drúedain and their culture

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"> I set out for the journey to find a Drúedain civilisation to describe them as much as possible in the early winter of the Second Age 1506, I went on horseback from my homeland of Lindon to find one of the big forests of the Drûg-folk in the westlands of this earth.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"> When I found the forest the hardest task of this journey had come, finding the Drúedain and gaining their trust. I searched for days on end but after around 2 new moons had come I found a group of hunters, because I didn’t want to frighten them I sat quietly behind some bushes nearby to observe their hunting tactics. I immediately noticed how much they knew about their environment and the behaviour of the animals in that environment, they also seems very skilled with the making of stone and wooden tools, as they seemed very sharp cutting the hide and flesh of the deer and the rabbits they had hunted.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"> I was thinking about how I should try and encounter them as I felt that something was looking at me from the back, so I turned my head slowly and then I saw their weird proportions compared to the other edain that had come to Beleriand, as they were more sturdy, not fat, but more muscled in some areas and short, another thing I noticed was their lack of hair beneath their eyebrows, with an exception of some men who had a small beard, which they were very proud of I came to know later.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"> They led me to their village and their I met their chieftain, who was called Ghân-Ûrki-Ghân (their language I shall tell you more about in a later chapter), he was one of the few Drúedain who could speak Sindarin, although not good Sindarin, with a deep and strong accent, so I talked slowly and tried to be as comprehensible as possible. He understood what I said luckily and then I told him my reasons for coming here, he didn’t trust me much, but he gave me a chance, I had to live for a few months with them before they would tell me about their language and culture, just to know if I could be trusted.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"> During those months I still learned some things about their culture, for example: They lived under small roofs made of leaves and wood under a tree, where they slept, they  hid their stuff usually in a cave nearby, where they sometimes slept if the weather conditions were really bad, and that says a lot about the differences between Elves, Edain and the Drúedain, as this says that they are not frightened by a bit of rain and don’t mind sleeping in the cold. They also live in an Amazon-like environment, with women having the same rights as men, and often having the women in charge of the tribes.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"> As I mentioned before, they were masters of stone and wood crafts, almost as good as the dwarves, but unlike the dwarves, they could make statues that looked so real, almost if it were alive people, thus some people actually believed they could create humans out of stone, which is of course ridiculous as only the great Ilúvatar can create life, but the myth didn’t seem far-fetched. Their language, incomprehensible as it seemed, still had some recognisable traits of the other languages of men, but that still doesn’t mean I could understand it back then, they also had the weird capability of standing still in a weird way where they almost looked like stones, and they could hold this positions for hours, and days, I tried it a couple of times myself, but I didn’t have the  discipline and competence to maintain that position for very long.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"> Their weapons, although I already said were very sharp and clearly made by skilled crafters, have things of speciality to note, first one being that they often used poison, how they obtained that poison in still a question to me till this very day, although I presume they used some little animal unknown to me to poison their weapons. They also used bows, that were no match for the Elven bows, but still good ones, they also liked to use poisoned arrows on those, which made the orcs scared whenever they happened to stumble onto some Drúedain.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"> An important thing to note is their burning hatred for the orcs, although this is unknown to me why they hate them so deeply, I do share that hatred, as does any elf, but it is still unknown to me. Some of my Fellow Elves have speculated that they were indeed once tried to be turned into orcs, but that they escaped, I don’t believe this theory as there’s nothing orcish about the Drúedain.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"> Another fun thing to not is that their eyes tend to turn bright red when they are very, very, very angry, and besides that, a Drúadan is not easily angered to that level, but when he is you need to run for your life and be extremely careful. <ac_metadata title="Drúedain Behaviour"> </ac_metadata>