"At that old Ghân made a curious gurgling noise, and it seemed that he was laughing."
The Return of the King V 5
The Ride of the Rohirrim
A rare abbreviated name for the chieftain of the Drúedain who aided Théoden and the Rohirrim during the War of the Ring, by guiding them to the forgotten Stonewain Valley that led toward Minas Tirith. The full, and much more common, form of his name was Ghân-buri-Ghân.
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Ghân's name came from the mysterious language of the Drúedain, and so a definite interpretation is not possible. It does however bear a striking resemblance to an Elvish root word for 'Man', Ʒan-, which opens the possibility that the Drúedain learned their speech originally from the Elves. That is entirely plausible (we know that other Mannish languages were influenced by Elvish), but on the other hand the resemblance may be entirely coincidental.
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