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Matěj Čadil: The Enchanted River (Inktober Day 7)

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• Inktober day 16 "wild" - Ghân-buri-Ghân, the headman of the Wild Men, aka Woses or Drúedain, who help the Rohirrim on their ride to Minas Tirith by taking them by hidden paths through their forest.🌲🌳
• There are not many illustrations of old Ghân, so I am glad I could draw him. What do you think about my depiction? 🙂
• Presently he came to an open space where a small tent had been set up for the king under a great tree. A large lantern, covered above, was hanging from a bough and cast a pale circle of light below. There sat Théoden and Éomer, and before them on the ground sat a strange squat shape of a man, gnarled as an old stone, and the hairs of his scanty beard straggled on his lumpy chin like dry moss. He was short-legged and fat-armed, thick and stumpy, and clad only with grass about his waist. Merry felt that he had seen him before somewhere, and suddenly he remembered the Púkelmen of Dunharrow. Here was one of those old images brought to life, or maybe a creature descended in true line through endless years from the models used by the forgotten craftsmen long ago.

*   📖 J. R. R. Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings. V/5 The Ride of the Rohirrim

• This was an almost immediate idea I got for this prompt. Although there are many wild things in Tolkien's world and interestingly the word Wild is most often used as a noun (meaning the Wilderness), for the Wild Men it is really part of the name by which they are commonly known and they are a very interesting and unique people of Middle-earth.
• By the way, if you haven't read the Unfinished Tales, there is an excellent essay on the Drúedain, explaining a lot of their backstory and history in the First Age.
• Image size 800x796px 370.68 KB
• Published: November 28, 2019

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