Alan Sisto

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The Prancing Pony Podcast · 416 – The Sound of Silence · 7 Jun 2026 podcast

They could notoriously hold a grudge for generations.

So there's a lot, I feel like, that they're more dwarf-like than they are hobbit-like.

Yeah.

Now, the footnote here explains that some standalone notes from the professor say,

tell us that their own name for themselves was Druhu.

So that's D-R-U-G-H-U, but that G-H is pronounced as aspirant, just like in Khan Brihan's name.

And Druhu becomes simply Dru in Sindarin, thankfully, because then it's easier for me to pronounce.

So grateful for that.

The plurals of Dru are both Druin and Druoth.

And eventually the elves realize, look, these are good guys.

They hate Morgoth, they hate the orcs, so they're on our side.

And then they add the Adan, which means man, and it turns the Dru into Druodyne for plural or singular, Druodyne.

I love that though that the name, being given the name Druadain, taking their own word Dru,

or the cinder inversion of their own name, Druhu, and turning that into Dru and then adding the Adan element.

This marks their humanity, their friendship with the Eldar, and the racial differences between them.

And they're not mistaken for the Haladin or the Beor, the House of Beor, or the House of Hador, the Golden Head.

They are their own distinct people

but they are clearly defined here as equal to them in terms of their humanity, right?

They are distinct from, but no less than the other houses of the Andine.

And that's important because as we'll see later,

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