Drúedain
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The Drúedain are a fictional race of Men, living in the Drúadan Forest, in the Middle-earth legendarium created by J. R. R. Tolkien. They were counted among the Edain who made their way into Beleriand
A fight with a woodwose: The Fight in the Forest by Hans Burgkmair, c. 1500
The Battle of the Pelennor Fields, in J. R. R. Tolkien's novel The Lord of the Rings, was the defence of the city of Minas Tirith by the forces of Gondor and the cavalry of its ally Rohan, against the
Drúedain
…Beleriand in the First Age, and were friendly to the Elves. In The Lord of the Rings, they assist the Riders of Rohan to avoid ambush on the way to the Battle of the Pelennor Fields. The Drúedain are based on the mythological woodwoses, the wild men of the woods of Britain and Europe; the Riders of Rohan indeed call them woses…
The battle, and in particular the death of Théoden, has been compared to the historic Battle of the Catalaunian Fields. Painting by Alphonse de Neuville.
"Great horns of the North wildly blowing": here, one made from a horn of an aurochs
Albrecht Altdorfer's 1529 oil painting The Battle of Alexander at Issus inspired Peter Jackson's film depiction.
A left-arm vambrace; the bend would be placed at the knight's elbow