A name among the Rohirrim for the shy, secretive people known in Elvish as the Drúedain. Though never numerous, the end of the Third Age saw these people reduced to a few populations in the southern parts of Middle-earth, especially in the Drúwaith Iaur and Drúadan 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 Róg.
See also...
Drû, Drû-folk, Drúath, Drúedain of Anórien, Drughu, Drûgs, Drúin, Drúnos, East-mountains, Ghân, Ghân-buri-Ghân, Gorgûn, Grey Wood, Horse-men, Men of the Mountains, [See the full list...]Oghor-hai, Ogres, Púkel-men, Ras Morthil, Rimmon, River Anduin, Róg, Rógin, Stone-houses, Stonehouse-folk, Stonewain Valley, Watch-stones, White Mountains, Woodwose, Woodwoses
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